First of all I want to say a very big thank you to everyone who took part in #DDMreadingweek in whatever capacity – review, photo, blog comment etc – I thoroughly enjoyed the week. By starting my reading very early, I managed three books too which I was pleased with.
A very brief roundup from me as you can find my event page here containing blog links – which I am still updating, and will continue to do so. Please hop on over and click through to the reviews written by bloggers taking part in the event this year.
I enjoyed some lovely conversations on Twitter and Instagram about Daphne du Maurier and her books – if you want to spot them, follow the hashtag. An English teacher on Twitter read some DDM short stories with her Y10s and shared some of their comments with us – I feel like we have some DDM converts there. Blogger Lisa has been sharing her experience of reading Jamaica Inn after abandoning it twenty years ago – it was such a joy to share her love of it. Some lovely photos of DDM books popped up on Instagram, it’s always lovely to see how much people still love DDM.
Now to the business of a certain giveaway – yesterday afternoon, I drew two random names from the comments on last Monday’s blog post.
The first prize of the VMC designer edition of Rebecca and matching mug was won by Marina from Finding Time to Write blog.
The second prize of a print of The Birds cover to be supplied by Virago was won by Kate.
Winners have been contacted and address of the second prize winner has been sent to Virago.
I am still catching up with blog posts etc – bear with me, but please let me know if you think I have missed your post.
I think I will probably do this again next year. 😊
heavenali 
I’ve loved this Ali and so happy to have won a prize! I will post a pic when it arrives! A big yes to doing this again next year – it was great. I’ve loved ‘tagging’ along so thanks to you for organising such varied conversation about an author we all clearly love! Kate x
So glad you’re pleased. I look forward to seeing that photo.
It’s been a wonderful week Ali! So pleased to hear you’ll likely be doing it again next year 🙂
Thank you.
Delighted to have won, but now I feel like a fraud, because I didn’t get a chance to read and contribute to DDM week this year. I was planning to read Rule Britannia. Still, I greatly enjoyed catching up with other people’s reviews, thank you for organising and thank you for the beautiful edition of Rebecca.
Ah, don’t worry, maybe next year. I hope you enjoy your prize. It’s a wonderful novel.
I also am glad that you are doing this again next year. Next year I will plan ahead for it.
I have purchased the short story collection Don’t Look Now and will be reading it soon.
That’s an excellent collection, each story atmospheric and hard to put down. Hope you enjoy it.
Thank you so much for hosting! It’s great to see so many readers sharing the love for Daphne du Maurier. Unfortunately, I started reading The Flight of the Falcon too late and didn’t manage to finish it in time, but I’m enjoying it and will continue reading it this week.
Don’t worry about your review, when you post it, let me know and I’ll add it to the page. Hope you enjoy the rest of it.
Thank you for the inadvertent yearly nudge to finally get me back to reading du Maurier!
Ha, glad to help.
Thanks so much for hosting Ali and I’m glad you’ll be doing this next year as well. I’m already thinking of what I’ll read next year, probably both new ones rather than a new and a revisit as I did last year and this.
I’m glad you’re looking forward to next year – I’ve been thinking what to read next year too.
How lovely that a teacher got their students involved – you must be really proud of that! And you’d better do it again next year and the year after, at very least – I have the autobiographical one and the sailing one lined up to read for them! Well done for another fun and successful Week.
Yes that was lovely. I’m glad you have some lined up you want to read.
Sorry I couldn’t take part this year Ali, I’ve loved reading all the reviews and if it’s back next year I will definitely get organised and take part again!
No problem, it would be lovely to have you join us next time if you can.
Well done on a great week, Ali, and I will try very hard to join in next year!!
Thank you, It would be great if you could.
I love the fact that a group of Y10s read some of du Maurier’s short stories with their teacher and passed on some feedback to you! That’s brilliant, Ali – you must be really thrilled with that level of engagement!
Congrats on a very successful week, and apologies again that I didn’t get my act together in time to participate this time. I shall endeavour to do so next year, all being well.
Yes, I think the DDM week just happened to coincide with a programme of work the teacher had planned already. It was great to see those comments though. It would be lovely to have you join us next time if you can.
I’m so glad to hear about the year 10’s, they seem like perfect examples of short story writing to me (and that’s not getting in to the novel!), a friend told me she wasn’t allowed DdM at school because it wasn’t considered literature!
BTW here’s the link to the symposium
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimagining-rebecca-a-symposium-on-du-mauriers-novel-its-legacy-tickets-330590514127
It’s called Reimagining Rebecca.
Thank you for the link.
I think DDM has often been inaccurately pigeonholed, she’s a popular author, but her writing has been undervalued by many I think.
I completely agree!
[…] I only managed to finish fifteen books in May, that’s still one every two days or so but I’d hoped to read more. I don’t have any read in May to review fully here but there are two reviews for Shiny New Books that I haven’t mentioned on here yet. I read or am still reading all of the print TBR I said I MUST read. I read and reviewed seven out of the nine NetGalley books I had TBR for May, DNF’d one and have one still to read (“The New Doctor at Peony Practice”; I need to read the first six in the series, I’ve got the NEXT one now too, but the publicist at the publisher is fine about the delay). I read and loved “The Scapegoat” for Ali’s Daphne du Maurier reading week. […]