Persephone Books discussion

Hello ! Happy July all : )
Any suggestions for our monthly buddy read during the months of Nov and Dec 2018?

I have 2 R C Sheriff books Still to read, Greengates and The Fortnight in September, if anyone would be interested in one of those.
I think I'm going to London next weekend, so I will try to pop into the bookshop if there are other suggestions that I can get there.

I'd love to read Greengates. Miss Buncle Married might be fun for a lighter read.

Hello Tania and Susan : )
I think Greengates would be a great choice for November too.
Anyone read The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher?

I’ve read The Home-Maker, and it could make for a very interesting discussion. I also really liked The Fortnight in September, but I think the group read it recently, in the past year or so.

Hi Susan, i think The Home-Maker would make interesting discussion too.You have any other titles you really been wanting to read?

I have The Home-Maker, but haven't read it. Love the idea of Miss Buncle Married, too. Happy to read whatever the group chooses.

Karen wrote: "Hi Susan, i think The Home-Maker would make interesting discussion too.You have any other titles you really been wanting to read?"

Greengates is at the top of my list. Sometime, I’d like to read Fidelity by Susan Glaspell—since it’s out of copyright, at least in the U.S. it can be found online as well as in print. ( And more of the Miss Buncle saga—I was excited to find my public library has all these available as ebooks.). But as Tania said, I’m happy to read what the group chooses

I can get the second Miss B book from the library.

Hello all : )
I've checked with Gina and she agrees that
-Greengates by RC Sherriff for Nov 2018
-The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher for Dec 2018
will be perfect choices.
I do hope everyone is happy with the choices
Karen : )

Sounds good to me, Karen. Thanks for keeping us organized

Sounds great. Thanks.

Great :0)

Thanks Susan : ) x

Thanks Tania : ) x

Thanks Veronique : ) x

Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone! And thanks to Karen, who is stepping in and co-moderating with me!

Either of the Sheriff books which are fab. Or the Buncle books which are super too. Or one of the short stories from the PB collection ?
Toast

Hi Gina, thanks ,it's my pleasure to help out : ) x

Hi Toast, happy you can join in : )

Ace job Karen.
So sorry to be an idiot - what's the list from July on?
Toast

Hello Toast : )
Do you use the app or desktop version?
Click on more upcoming reads on the home page and you will see the list : )
I find using Goodreads on desktop better than on my phone.
Hope this helps
Best Wishes Karen

Thank you Karen. You are a marvel.
Toast

Hello all ,
Any book suggestions for next Jan-April 2019 ? Planning ahead : D
Hope everyone is well and looking forward to hearing your suggestions.
Best wishes Karen and Gina

Little Women and The Forty Rules of Love

Aqsa wrote: "Little Women and The Forty Rules of Love"

Hi Aqsa.
This group is for reading Persephone Books and they haven't published those ones. I did love Little Women, though.
I have a copy of The Blank Wall, so I would be keen to read that. Perhaps Miss Buncle Married.

Oops sorry.

Thanks Tania :)

I love the above suggestions of RC Sherriff, the 'Ms Buncle's' and 'The Blank Wall'. And after a random look at my shelves (without thinking of dates or anniversaries or anything like that) and without being fully aware of what has already been read, I came up with the following purely because I thought they'd get people talking:
High Wages - Dorothy Whipple
any short story from the PB book of short stories
Cheerful weather for the wedding - Julia Strachey
The Children who lived in a barn - Eleanor Graham
Miss Ranskill comes home - Barbara Eurphon Todd
The Woman Novelist and other stories - Diana Gardner
Tea with Mr Rochester - Frances Towers
Any of the Mollie Panter-Downes collections
I would suggest my fav Vere H's 'A few eggs etc' but no one has a month of Sundays to read such a brick of a book over the Christmas and New Year period.
Any use??????
Toast

Aqsa wrote: "Oops sorry.

Thanks Tania :)"

You're welcome. Here is a list of the Persephone Books. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2.... Maybe there will be something you'd like here.

Toast,of the books you named, I already have Miss Ranskill Comes Home and Minnie's Room: The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes by Mollie Panter-Downes. I wouldbe happy to buy others if people are interested though.

Lots of good suggestions! I’m very interested in Heat Lightning and Miss Buncle Married. And just wanted to add, Toast, that I loved Few Eggs and No Oranges, too — it would be hard to fit in one month though — (as is Mollie Panter-Downs War Notes) — maybe those could be done over 2 months when/if the group wants to read them?

Thanks all for the suggestions , some really great reads here

I'm in for Greengates.

Guy wrote: "I'm in for Greengates."
Hello Guy , we will be reading 'Greengates' next month

Great. I was hoping I'd find Young Anne on the kindle but it doesn't seem to be available in that format yet.

Hi all ,
Books for Jan-April 2019 have now been added to the 'Upcoming Reads' , thanks for your help and hope you are happy with our choices !

Looks like a great mix of reads coming up!

Karen—I cannot locate “Upcoming Reads.” I must be blind! Can you help?

Hi Lynn.
I think you can only access them through a laptop/desktop. It doesn't appear to be available using the app. There is a tab below the book showing on the right saying 'more upcoming reads'
The new books are.
Jan - Miss Buncle Married
Feb - The Blank Wall
March - They Were Sisters
April - Despised And Rejected.

I'm particularly looking forward to 'Miss Buncle Married' and 'They were Sisters', myself.

Thanks! @Tania! Didn’t even consider I might need to get on the computer and look! 😀 I hope to be able to join in as of the new year. Egads! I can’t believe yet another year is almost done and gone!

I can see the upcoming choices on iPad — go to group home, and the link to see more upcoming books is also under the book on the right. Don’t know if this works on other platforms

Lynn wrote: "Karen—I cannot locate “Upcoming Reads.” I must be blind! Can you help?"

Tania wrote: "Hi Lynn.
I think you can only access them through a laptop/desktop. It doesn't appear to be available using the app. There is a tab below the book showing on the right saying 'more upcoming reads'..."
Hi Lynn, hope you are able to join in .
Thanks Tania, a few people have said they can't see 'upcoming reads' on the app and only through desktop/ipad.
I'm looking forward to 'They Were Sisters' too

I’m looking forward to the last two titles too.
Miss Buncle was lovely, and Blank Wall, one of my first Persephone, turned out to be pretty amazing.

Happy February All !
Any suggestions/ideas for our choice of books for the months of May,June and July 2019?

As we were saying on another thread, The Hopkins Manuscript by R. C. Sherriff might be fun to read together.

Susan wrote: "As we were saying on another thread, The Hopkins Manuscript by R. C. Sherriff might be fun to read together."
Hi Susan, hope you are well?
I agree, The Hopkins Manuscript is one i've had on my Tbr list for a while and I love R.C.Sherriff's writing.

I’m for The Hopkins Manuscript too. Looking at the previous comments, Miss Ranskill Comes Home is another one I like the sound of (well, pretty much the whole catalogue). Virginia Woolf’s diary (A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf) as well as Tirzah Garwood’s autobio (Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood) look great but perhaps too long for one month...

One of the new Persephone coming out in April will be from Elisabeth De Waal, so I wondered if you’d be interested in her other title, The Exiles Return.

I'd be up for 'Miss Ranskill', too. I'd also try to get hold of 'The Hopkins Manuscript'. I'll wait and see what is picked before putting in another order.

I would like to read The Expendable Man by Dorothy B Hughes. I see that the group read it back in 2013-- I don't know if you do rereads or not.

We have reread books in the past, especially if it’s been awhile.