Tea or Books? #41: novels set in one day vs many years, and The Forsyte Saga vs The Cazalet Chronicles

John Galsworthy! Elizabeth Jane Howard! Circadian novels! Find out what that means, and much more, in episode 41. http://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Tea-or-Books-episode-41.mp3   Guys, it was SUPER hot when we were recording this podcast. It’s rather cooler now that I’m editing, but I rather worry that I wasn’t making much sense in this episode… forgive any heat-induced nonsense. And potentially wavering audible quality. So hot. I have cunningly edited out the bits where I went to get more cold water. (Blame that for me saying ‘Alan Bennett’ when I mean ‘Arnold Bennett’.) In the first half, we look at the length we like books to cover – from books where all the action takes place in one day to those where it’s over many years. And, for the second half, we’ve read more than ever this time – two chunksters, albeit only the first books in their respective series. We’re comparing A Man of Property by John Galsworthy and The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard – the openers to the Forsyte Saga and the Cazalet Chronicles. Thanks for the new reviews, by the way! Feel free to add them through iTunes app, or you can explore our iTunes page. Let us know which you’d choose, and any recommendations! The books and authors we mention in this episode are, as always, below: My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Another Time, Another Place by Jessie Kesson One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes One Day by David Nicholls London War Notes by Mollie Panter-Downes Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? by John Sutherland Ulysses by James Joyce Saturday by Ian McEwan Seize the Day by Saul Bellow Cheerful Weather for the Wedding by Julia Strachey Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day by Winifred Watson The Hours by Michael Cunningham Jodi Picoult The Corner That Held Them by Sylvia Townsend Warner Weatherley Parade by Richmal Crompton David Copperfield by Charles Dickens The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair Alas, Poor Lady by Rachel Ferguson Us by David Nicholls The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim Agatha Christie Marcel Proust The Year of Reading Proust by Phyllis Rose Shakespeare Lord of the Flies by William Golding Catherine Cookson The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard A Man of Property by John Galsworthy The L-Shaped Room by Lynne Reid Banks A Pin To See The Peepshow by F Tennyson Jesse The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett H.G. Wells Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner