StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany

How is it this hot and it is literal October?? It feels very wrong to still be in a t-shirt, and to have the windows open at home. It continues to be a super busy time, and looks like it might be that way for the foreseeable – but let’s take a breather with a book, a blog post, and a link. 1.) The link – exciting news! I was on Naga Munchetty’s Book Club on Radio Five Live this week, thanks to an invite from Kate of the Book Club Review Podcast. We were meant to have an hour of talking about mid-century novels, but breaking news of the plane hijacking rather squeezed our time. You can listen back here – we were about 12.20-30 and 12.45-1. 2.) The blog post – it’s from a few months ago, but I just discovered it: Wormwoodiana’s thoughts on the centenary of Ronald Fraser’s Flower Phantoms. Includes mention of many books I did my DPhil on, and still an endless source of interest to me. 3.) The book – …and in that review, he mentions R.B. Russell’s Past Lives of Old Books, which I hadn’t…