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I totally failed to read a new-to-me 1962 publication this year. I’m disappointed in myself as I usually manage to contribute one or two reviews to each of Karen and Simon’s year clubs, and it’s always a good excuse to read some classics.
My mistake this time was to only get one option: Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, which I had my husband borrow for me from the university library. I opened it up and couldn’t make head or tail of it. I’m sure it’s very clever and meta, and I’ve enjoyed Nabokov before (Pnin, in particular), but I clearly needed to be in the right frame of mind for a challenge, and this month I was not.
Looking through the Goodreads list of the top 100 books from 1962, and spying on others’ contributions to the week, though, I can see that it was a great year for literature (aren’t they all?). Here are 12 books from 1962 that I happen to have read before, most of which I’ve reviewed here in the past few years. I’ve linked to those and/or given review excerpts where I have them, and the rest I describe to the best of my muzzy memory.
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken – The snowy scene on the cover and described in the first two paragraphs drew me in and the story, a Victorian-set fantasy with notes o
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Read on March 16th, The Minack Chronicles Revisited starts with a long section of biography by John Nash and then has two of Derek Tangye’s memoirs reprinted.
I was immediately amused and relieved to read that this biographer also had at least a little trouble with Derek’s conservativism. (I also recently acquired and have read the excellent Went the Day Well.)
You can also see how beautifully this book is put together. I don’t think I would seek out One King, even though Nash said that Derek “took a generally enlightened view about what the future should be for the native peoples of the Empire” (remember, One King was written in the 1940s)…but not so enlightened as to give the Aborigines of Australia more than a few words.
(Meanwhile, I read Derek’s first memoir, pre-Minack Chronicles and before Jeannie, Time was Mine, and found him progressive toward other peoples (although not toward women), marred by two occasions of disturbingly racist language that jarred badly with the rest of the book. There was no such language in his later books, so I think he grew up. It is one thing to have used some racist words when a book was written in the early 1940s, although some people were enlightened even then. It is something
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Obituary: Derek Tangye
In the trustworthy 1950s Derek Tangye nearby his helpmate Jeannie were walking keep to the cliffs near Lamorna, above Mount's Bay interior Cornwall, when they maxim a hawk drifting overhead.
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