Fitzgerald

[close] A club for everything classic. From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Great Gatsby to Of Mice and Men to The Hobbit. ~We read a classic book once every two months. These books are chosen from a poll.

[close] Join along to read twenty books set during the roaring (19)20s in 2020! Or read 20 books published in 1920...or a little of both! Recommend books to other "bright young things" and share your reads and reviews. We'll have a discussion of sorts on the 20th of each month.

[close] Phillip: "...Fitzgerald Hemingway and Falkner had to wait until the 20s were in full swing before they became successful writers. There's also the longer gap between WWI and the Roaring 20's and WWII and the 60's. The world - and particularly the USA - took much longer to recover from WWII. A lot of fine writers left Goodreads when it was sold to Amazon, fearing their work had been sold with it. But we still own what we write. We should start a thread somewhere, inviting parallels between the two generations, then edit the results and we'd have a book to sell."

[close] I'd like some advice on a good summer read but I'm quite specific. I'm from Corsica and live in North London for 5 years. I'm going back to Corsica for a month or two and would like to read books following those three categories. 1 - Something quite like Fitzgerald's Tender is the night - Pre-WW2 foreigners spending time in elegant and luxurious surroundings by the sea. 1 - Something quite like Brideshead Revisited. I'm too hot in Corsica and misses the UK. Books set during summer spent in Victorian houses, in parks and ponds more than by the sea, in which everyone dresses in white and enjoys drinking before dinner. 3 - Something quite like Rum Diary. A much warmer summer with heavy drinking. The characters are so hot they drink to forget and go swimming. You can feel inspired to do the same.