...the futility and the fragility of all our hopes and desires... 2025 has begun with life becoming exceedingly busy. Cleaning, shifting home, travelling (which was fun), and new responsibilities. Reading and blogging have taken a backseat but as things become more stream-lined, here are brief notes on some of the books read: Homecoming by Bernhard … Continue reading Short Notes on Four Novels
Tag: Josephine Tey
The Week That Was: 1-7 September 2024
My review pile is alarmingly high and so I have decided to post this weekly feature to have some control over my reading and other bookish matters. Though I hope I am able to do it every week, considering my past record, it too might just go the way of other good intentions. But at … Continue reading The Week That Was: 1-7 September 2024
#1929 Club: The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
Though I have read a couple of Josephine Tey's Alan Grant novels, the #1929 club being hosted by Simon and Karen gave me an excellent opportunity to read his first case. A widely popular stage show is winding up in a week and crowds are thronging to the theatre to see the beautiful actress Ray … Continue reading #1929 Club: The Man in the Queue by Josephine Tey
Forgotten Book: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
A couple of years back, I read Josephine Tey's Miss Pym Disposes which was not so much about a murder in a boarding school as a deconstruction of the process of detection where it was the limitations of the detective - subjectivity, prejudices, likes, dislikes, - that was interrogated. It was a novel that broadened … Continue reading Forgotten Book: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
F is for Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
At times, a book can lead you to another book. When I read Sarah Waters' The Little Stranger, I came to know that the book was influenced by Waters' reading of Josephine Tey's The Franchise Affair. Since I wanted some questions answered as regards The Little Stranger, I downloaded Tey's book.About to close his office, the lawyer Robert … Continue reading F is for Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey
A Pit in Dothan: Josephine Tey’s Brat Farrar
He walked slowly across the room until he was standing face to face with Brat by the window. He had abnormally clear grey eyes with adarker rim to the iris, but they had no expression in them. Nor had his pale features any expression. He was so tightly strung, Brat thought,that if you plucked him … Continue reading A Pit in Dothan: Josephine Tey’s Brat Farrar
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