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A *very* late entry in my #1961Club viewing. Further evidence that 1961 was a knockout year for cinema! @kaggsy59.bsky.social @stuckinabook.bsky.social #FilmSky
jacquiwine.bsky.social JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · May 31
IL POSTO (Ermanno Olmi, 1961). Absolutely loved this! A wonderful, low-key Italian gem about young love and the transition from school into the soulless world of office work, complete with all its petty resentments and inherent hierarchies. (1/2) #FilmSky >>
Black & white shot of a young man and a young woman standing at the bar of a coffee shop in Milan. They are smiling as a tentative, romantic friendship is beginning to form between them. Three other men are partly visible in the background.
May 31, 2026 at 8:04 PM
buriedinprint.bsky.social
"Lucky English speaking readers : Heaven Has no Favorites is not OOP in English. Highly recommended."

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Heaven Has No Favorites by Erich Maria Remarque – my second read for the #1961Club
Heaven Has No Favorites by Erich Maria Remarque (1961) French title: Le ciel n’a pas de préférés. Translated by Dominique Auclères. Heaven Has No Favorites by Erich Maria Remarque is my second read…
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April 28, 2026 at 7:16 PM
bookaround.bsky.social
The #1961Club comes to an end - but what year will we choose next??? 🤔📚 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/t...
The #1961Club comes to an end – but what year will we choose next??? 🤔📚
Well, as the saying goes – that’s a wrap! The 1961 Club has come to an end, and what a fabulous week it was! This turned out to be a particularly good year for books and I don’t k…
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April 26, 2026 at 8:49 AM
dchocolatelady.bsky.social
#BookThreads #booksky 💙📚 #bookstodon #ShortStorySunday First Impressions, Secondary Consequences-My #bookreview for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark, on my #bookblog here. #1961Club (late) #histficreadingchallenge #BeatTheBacklist #TheClassicsClub #ccwhatimreading
#ShortStorySunday First Impressions, Secondary Consequences.
Book Review for “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” by Muriel Spark. Summary: "She was a schoolmistress with a difference. Proud, cultured, romantic, her ideas were progressive, even shocking. And when she decided to transform a group of young girls under her tutelage into the 'creme de la creme' of Marcia Blaine school, no one could have predicted the outcome."
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April 25, 2026 at 9:05 PM
j-lbrbsblogs.bsky.social
The #1961Club comes to an end - but what year will we choose next??? 🤔📚 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/t...
The #1961Club comes to an end – but what year will we choose next??? 🤔📚
Well, as the saying goes – that’s a wrap! The 1961 Club has come to an end, and what a fabulous week it was! This turned out to be a particularly good year for books and I don’t k…
kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com
April 24, 2026 at 1:11 PM
jacquiwine.bsky.social
This BBC Radio drama about the making of Basil Dearden’s landmark 1961 film VICTIM is excellent.

Thanks @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social and @eggsbened.bsky.social for recommending it! #FilmSky #1961Club

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Drama on 3 - Victim - BBC Sounds
The story of ‘Victim’, the first British film to seriously address homosexuality.
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April 24, 2026 at 12:21 PM
sparrowpost.bsky.social
Staggered this evening by Natalia Ginzburg. The usual when reading her!
This scene occurs after WWII as the locals return to the area and resume their lives there. #1961Club
"Happiness," he said, always seems nothing. It is like water; one only realizes it when it has run away." "That is true," she said. She thought for a moment and said, "It is the same with the evil we do; it seems nothing, just seems foolishness, cold water, while we are doing it. Otherwise people would not do it; they would be more careful." "True," he said. She said, "Why have we ruined everything, everything?" and she began to cry. She said, "I can't leave this house. I brought up my children here. I have been here so many years, so many years. I can't—I can't leave it." "Then you want to stay here?" he asked. And she said, "No" — and went away the next day. From Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg
April 20, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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By: StuckinaBook on Saturday, April 18, 2026
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame – #1961Club
I made a lot of notes on Faces in the Water while I was reading it, but I find that I don’t really know what to write now! It’s a novel about a woman who is in and out of psychiatric in…
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April 20, 2026 at 12:24 PM
mkinberg.bsky.social
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The #1961Club comes to an end – but what year will we choose next??? 🤔📚
Well, as the saying goes – that’s a wrap! The 1961 Club has come to an end, and what a fabulous week it was! This turned out to be a particularly good year for books and I don’t k…
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April 20, 2026 at 11:18 AM
mkinberg.bsky.social
A Grief Observed (Readers Edition) by C S Lewis #1961Club lovebooksreadbooks.com/2026/04/20/a... > @j-lbrbsblogs.bsky.social
A Grief Observed (Readers Edition) by C S Lewis #1961Club
This unsentimental, even bracing, account of one man’s dialogue with despair becomes both compelling and consoling … Book blurb It offers an interrogation of experience and a glimmer of…
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April 20, 2026 at 10:12 AM
j-lbrbsblogs.bsky.social
A Grief Observed (Readers Edition) by C S Lewis #1961Club lovebooksreadbooks.com/2026/04/20/a...
A Grief Observed (Readers Edition) by C S Lewis #1961Club
This unsentimental, even bracing, account of one man’s dialogue with despair becomes both compelling and consoling … Book blurb It offers an interrogation of experience and a glimmer of…
lovebooksreadbooks.com
April 20, 2026 at 9:58 AM
marinasofia.bsky.social
The #1961Club comes to an end - but what year will we choose next??? 🤔📚 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/t...
The #1961Club comes to an end – but what year will we choose next??? 🤔📚
Well, as the saying goes – that’s a wrap! The 1961 Club has come to an end, and what a fabulous week it was! This turned out to be a particularly good year for books and I don’t k…
kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com
April 20, 2026 at 8:42 AM
bookjotter.bsky.social
kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/the-1961club-comes-to-an-end-but-what-year-will-we-choose-next-🤔📚/ @kaggsy59.bsky.soc#1961ClubClub
The #1961Club comes to an end – but what year will we choose next??? 🤔📚
Well, as the saying goes – that’s a wrap! The 1961 Club has come to an end, and what a fabulous week it was! This turned out to be a particularly good year for books and I don’t k…
https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/the-1961club-comes-to-an-end-but-what-year-will-we-choose-next-🤔📚/
April 20, 2026 at 8:37 AM
kaggsy59.bsky.social
The #1961Club comes to an end - but what year will we choose next??? 🤔📚 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/t...
The #1961Club comes to an end – but what year will we choose next??? 🤔📚
Well, as the saying goes – that’s a wrap! The 1961 Club has come to an end, and what a fabulous week it was! This turned out to be a particularly good year for books and I don’t k…
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April 20, 2026 at 8:10 AM
jacquiwine.bsky.social
While THE CHILDREN’S HOUR looks at the damage gossip and hearsay could do, especially when manipulated by vindictive individuals, VICTIM explores blackmail, extortion and criminality.

A fascinating pairing from my #1961Club viewing! (3/3) #FilmSky

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April 19, 2026 at 7:40 PM
grantrintoul.bsky.social
A disappointing reading experience for the #1961Club - Angus Wilson's The Old Men at the Zoo sounded great in theory...
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The Old Man at the Zoo
Angus Wilson was a novelist at his peak in 1961 when The Old Men at the Zoo was published having won the James Tait Memorial Prize for his previous novel, The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot. He wrote a fu…
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April 19, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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By: kaggsysbookishramblings on Sunday, April 19, 2026
“…Doc Benway assessed the situation…” #1961Club #thesoftmachine
I’ve been gradually making my way through the books of William S. Burroughs, starting with “Junky” back in 2024; so when I realised that the next book chronologically was “T…
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April 19, 2026 at 4:31 PM
bookjotter.bsky.social
www.stuckinabook.com/faces-in-the-water-by-janet-frame-1961club/ @stuckinabook.bsky.social #1961Club
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame – #1961Club
I made a lot of notes on Faces in the Water while I was reading it, but I find that I don’t really know what to write now! It’s a novel about a woman who is in and out of psychiatric in…
www.stuckinabook.com
April 19, 2026 at 2:31 PM
chibiabos83.bsky.social
Oh, isn't it great? All hail Queen Ivy! #1961Club
April 19, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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On @whatcathyreadnext.bsky.social

Book Review - Thunderball by Ian Fleming #1961Club whatcathyreadnext.co.uk/2026/04/19/b...
Book Review – Thunderball by Ian Fleming #1961Club
About the Book James Bond is in disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high-living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight in a nature-cure clinic to be tun…
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April 19, 2026 at 1:15 PM
noveldeelights.bsky.social
Book Review - Thunderball by Ian Fleming #1961Club whatcathyreadnext.co.uk/2026/04/19/b... - via @whatcathyreadnext.bsky.social
Book Review – Thunderball by Ian Fleming #1961Club
About the Book James Bond is in disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high-living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight in a nature-cure clinic to be tun…
whatcathyreadnext.co.uk
April 19, 2026 at 1:10 PM
stuckinabook.bsky.social
Finishing off the #1961Club with a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett: www.stuckinabook.com/the-mighty-a...
The Mighty and Their Fall by Ivy Compton-Burnett – #1961Club
My final 1961 Club read is by an author I’ve loved for years, and the most divisive writer out there – Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett. For those not in the know, her novels are told almost en…
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April 19, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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Feed: "Stuck in a Book"
By: StuckinaBook on Sunday, April 19, 2026
The Mighty and Their Fall by Ivy Compton-Burnett – #1961Club
My final 1961 Club read is by an author I’ve loved for years, and the most divisive writer out there – Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett. For those not in the know, her novels are told almost en…
www.stuckinabook.com
April 19, 2026 at 12:06 PM
bookjotter.bsky.social
www.stuckinabook.com/the-mighty-and-their-fall-by-ivy-compton-burnett-1961club/ @stuckinabook.bsky.social #1961Club
The Mighty and Their Fall by Ivy Compton-Burnett – #1961Club
My final 1961 Club read is by an author I’ve loved for years, and the most divisive writer out there – Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett. For those not in the know, her novels are told almost en…
www.stuckinabook.com
April 19, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Feed: "What Cathy Read Next…"
By: whatcathyreadnext on Sunday, April 19, 2026
Book Review – Thunderball by Ian Fleming #1961Club
About the Book James Bond is in disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high-living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight in a nature-cure clinic to be tun…
whatcathyreadnext.co.uk
April 19, 2026 at 11:04 AM