Book titles mentioned within a novel:
I have a couple of books which I classify as comfort reads. Despite the fact that I rarely reread books...there are a few. Lissa Evans' novels Crooked Heart and V for Victory are among those and I finished those this week.
As I have reviewed them before I won't get into that now, however you can click on the titles to see my Goodreads review if interested. 👆
What I thought I'd write about today were the many book titles mentioned in both novels.
Have you ever been reading a book and one of the characters is reading something, causing you to check out that book on Goodreads? Well there are many titles within these two novels.
If you are a fan of British classics or detective novels then you will find quite a few embedded in the storyline. Some are books Noel read when he was younger as well as the literature and nonfiction he reads for his educational tutoring in the second book.
The time periods are perfect for those who like WW II historical fiction, older mysteries as well fans of George Eliot books :-) Here are a few I have noted as I read:
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household
Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
The Complete Saki by Saki, an Edwardian author
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Noel's love of detective stories in Crooked Heart included Dorothy Sayer's series about Lord Peter Wimsey as well as other detective series such as Edward Wallace, Dashiell Hammett, Albert Campion and Eric Ambler.
Evans also includes a few nonfiction titles which were written by air-raid wardens and published during the war which inspired her for one character's storyline:
Raiders overhead: A Diary of the London Blitz by Barbara Nixon
The Orwell book is on my classics list but Ministry of Fear ought to be added as well.
On a sad note, I no longer have my copy of Crooked Heart as I loaned it out to a former workmate and she has moved away. Ugh. I checked the copy out of the library for my reread. Wah-wa 😞
Sharing with Deb at Readerbuzz for Sunday Salon. and Joy's Book Blog for Britsh Isles Friday.
