Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns

Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns - Modern Classic Book Review

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6 жыл бұрын

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@estefuchs8564 15 күн бұрын

I look forward to reading it!

@RubenDario-hr4iq 5 жыл бұрын

Comyns was a fine writer.

@MarilynMayaMendoza 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Lil, I read this book last night in one go. I think it will be my favorite book of 2021. Even though it was written so long ago, parts of it reflected my life and my own memoir. Parts of it were so hysterical, I laughed until I cried. Some of it made me angry. I've known poverty but never at that extent. Sometime this month I will do a review. Thank you so much for recommending this book to me. Much love and Aloha.

@soniaurbano4299 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, the author of this book is my great grandmother ☺️

@steveworman4923 6 жыл бұрын

Really enjoy your videos. You always have different choices which I find very interesting. This sounds really good so may pick this up myself one day. I love all historical type fiction from all ages. I hope your having a great week.

@lilsvintageworld 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did when you get around to it :)

@steveworman4923 6 жыл бұрын

Lil's Vintage World 👍

@MarilynMayaMendoza 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Lil, I came across your review by chance and it was delightful. I’m going to try to pick up this book somehow. Aloha friend

@lilsvintageworld 3 жыл бұрын

I hope you can find yourself a copy I really enjoyed this book!!

@seashanties8927 6 жыл бұрын

Great review! Have just finished reading this and very much enjoyed it. You captured my thoughts perfectly.

@lilsvintageworld 6 жыл бұрын

aw thank you, such a lovely comment

@PunkyDory80 6 жыл бұрын

added this to my TBR. Great review!

@lilsvintageworld 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you...enjoy!!

@1207susant 6 жыл бұрын

What a delightful book review!

@lilsvintageworld 6 жыл бұрын

Oh what a lovely comment, thank you!!

@justice2beauty 6 жыл бұрын

I'm so excited about this review. I read Excellent Women based on your review and absolutely loved it. This book popped up as a suggestion and I had not heard anything about it but now I really want to check it out!

@lilsvintageworld 6 жыл бұрын

If you like excellent women you will like this, I think we have similar tastes :)

@justice2beauty 6 жыл бұрын

We definitely do! What do you think I should pick up next - this one or Jane and Prudence? Thanks!

@lilsvintageworld 6 жыл бұрын

oooo either...they are both great. For a more happy read then Jane and Prudence, for all the emotions Our Spoons.....please keep me posted :)

@margaretg7773 6 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a great book - on my wish list it goes. Just the fact that you were thinking about Sophia when not reading makes me think it must be special.

@lilsvintageworld 6 жыл бұрын

It certainly is, it has given me a book hangover ....haha

@katiejlumsden 6 жыл бұрын

This sounds like such an interesting one!

@lilsvintageworld 6 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed it, I think you will too :)

@marilynstout5118 6 жыл бұрын

I loved Our Spoons Came From Woolworths. After I read it it stayed with me for months afterwards. I couldn't believe how selfish Charles and his family were to Sophia. Having a baby back then would be terrifying, especially if you were poor. Have you read The Vet's Daughter? It was also excellent. I thought about that one for months afterward too. I haven't been able to get Sisters by a River. I really want that one too. Have you read it?

@lilsvintageworld 6 жыл бұрын

I do certainly have a book hangover, I haven't been able to pick up a fiction since. I am on the non-fiction at the moment. I own both the vets daughter and sisters by a river but haven't read either yet. I hope I love them just as much

@tealmouse17 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this review! it has been on my tbr list for a while now and I was just thinking of taking a break of newer books to return to older reads. Have you read her book "Who was changed and who was dead"? and if you have, is the mood similar in this one? And whenever you can could you make a video with an updated list of your favourite books/authors similar to this? early 20th century focused on women? I'm a big fan of Barbara Pym too and I'm always looking for similar things!

@lilsvintageworld 6 жыл бұрын

I have not read it no, sorry. But yes I certainly can do a vid on my fave modern classics, I think we must have a very similar taste in books :)

@tealmouse17 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! will definitely be looking forward to it and meanwhile will get this one out of my tbr :)

@tealmouse17 6 жыл бұрын

I started it last night and it's so delightful! it's nothing like who was changed which is imho darker, drier in style and mood. Sophia taking Great Warty in her pocket to her wedding! so far there have been so many little details like that which I'm not expecting and make it really charming.

@lilsvintageworld 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic isn't it? so sweet and fun at times but so dark and sad in others. what do you think of Charles?

@tealmouse17 6 жыл бұрын

Sophia has just taken Sandro home from the hospital so I'm a bit under half the book, I don't know if that's early to give an opinion on Charles but so far he's such an useless husband and awful father, a selfish man who never should have married anyone. I probably could even like him if he was in a book about single men shenanigans, but here he's just deplorable. Sophia doesn't think of him as a bad husband but she has to keep doing everything by herself, like she thinks if she'll be able to take the pram to the studio after the baby is born, the thought that Charles can take care of baby since he stays home doesn't even cross her mind, or when she's getting her things ready for the hospital, she does everything herself as well, and the horrible things he has said to her about the baby, or spending the money they get without even consulting her and she doesn't even get mad about it. I guess he'll get worse from now on, but I can't quite decide if the people reading the book when it was published would think him as bad as I do or he'd be about average.