HeyJaredThe Joy of Old Books
Reading and recommending the best old books you've never heard of
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Eight Books to Read in the Cotswolds (opens the original)
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Get Thee To A Nunnery (opens the original)
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‘I wish,’ said Dame Felicitas, ‘that someone would write a book about nuns as they really are, not as the author wants them to be.’I thought of Black Narcissus and blushed.- Rumer Godden, A House with Four Rooms<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WBF3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F59cdd2bf-3231-4bed
Easy Reads for Difficult Times: Late Summer '26 Edition (opens the original)
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The Reading Pile - June/July 26 (opens the original)
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Nine Children's Books I Bet You Haven't Read (opens the original)
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Firstly - just a note to say thank you for the fantastic response to my suggestion of a Middlebrow Book Club - more to follow on that soon! Do let me know if you’d be interested in this and which books you’d like to see on the list. Next week’s post will be my regular reading round-up for June and July. Leave a commentOK, so realistically I know I am not the only pers… <a href="https://thejoyo
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