A storming October – in more ways than one!!

Well, October has certainly been a month full of some dramatic weather. Luckily, the storms don’t seem to have hit the East coast of the country too badly, although we did have several days with vicious rain and terrible winds; however, this *did* mean I could stay inside and storm through a lot of books! This was therefore a heck of a month for reading (some of it driven by the #1949Club) and here’s the pile of books I enjoyed: In case the images are unclear, they are: The Edge of Being by Stephen Spender White Nights by Dostoyevsky Ginsberg & Manchester by Roger Bygott The Possessed by Witold Gombrowicz Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali The Far Cry by Emma Smith Some Essays by George Orwell The Penguin New Writing issue 38 All I Could Never Be by Beverley Nichols In the Old Sun by Hermann Hesse New Maps of Hell by Kingsley Amis The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood A Phantom Lover by Vernon Lee The Ends of our Tethers by Alasdair Gray Bread of…