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Little Nemo
Little Nemo
Apr 2019
7:04pm, 3 Apr 2019
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I do heart a good bookmark!

Finished The House on Cold Hill - really quite a bad book. Didn't like the writing style, not scary, predictable plot events and rubbish ending. Can't understand how Peter James has managed to sell 17 million books unless this is a very bad example!
Columba
Columba
Apr 2019
9:22pm, 3 Apr 2019
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I have a large selection of bookmarks. One of my favourites is a quotation from Groucho Marx: "I laughed from the moment I picked your book up until I put it down. Some day I intend reading it".
LindsD
LindsD
Apr 2019
9:41pm, 3 Apr 2019
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Nice cover
McGoohan
McGoohan
Apr 2019
9:44pm, 4 Apr 2019
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I finished F451 this lunchtime and went straight into trying to read The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. I got about ten pages in before realising that it was not the book for me.

Like The Leopard, it was published (and translated) posthumously. But TBoD was discovered in a trunk, 30 odd years later and reconstructed from the fragments. Except the fragments are poetic wonderings and wanderings of someone trapped in a clerical job in a vaguely plotless diary. There are different versions depending on who has translated and who has arranged the fragments into whatever order.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGHHHH.

Right, I'm going to examine the shelves for a book about space pirates.
postieboy
postieboy
Apr 2019
6:45am, 5 Apr 2019
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I'm reading The Rotters Club currently, it's the book that introduces the original characters from Middle England for those who have read Jonathan Coe's most recent novel based around Brexit. It might be based in the 1970's but it's themes still feel relevent now. Shows we haven't moved that much forward in the past 40 or so years.
Diogenes
Diogenes
Apr 2019
7:18am, 5 Apr 2019
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I’m not sure I’m going to continue with F451 right now (sorry Westmoors), I need something gentler to distract me currently
Serendippily
Serendippily
Apr 2019
7:20am, 5 Apr 2019
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C9 is reading “the uncommon reader” to me for her bedtime book while I am reading “dad you suck” to her. She likes the latter purely for the swearing but gets the gentle humour and clean prose of Alan Bennett surprisingly well
GregP
GregP
Apr 2019
9:52am, 5 Apr 2019
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You gave it a 4 McG?
westmoors
westmoors
Apr 2019
9:59am, 5 Apr 2019
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That's OK Dio. I'm getting used to people not liking my book choices ;-)
Chrisull
Chrisull
Apr 2019
10:02am, 5 Apr 2019
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Pessoa is wonderful - melancholic reveries and wisdom, reminds me of Lisbon, I sought out his statue there, good book to dip in and out of, less so to read cover to cover. Still in FALAQS at the moment

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July 2025 book


Welcome to Season Eight

July 2025 (Linds)
The Rest of Our Lives (Benjamin Markovits)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-rest-of-our-lives---july-book-group-discussion-thread-63735
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11915

June 2025 (Fetch)
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin, trans. Bela Shayevich, Clarence Brown or Gregory Zilboorg depending on edition)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/we-by-yevgeny-zamyatin---june-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63689
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11908
Dystopian poll fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11910

May 2025 (Little Nemo)
The Last Days of New Paris (China Mieville)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-last-days-of-new-paris---china-mieville---may-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63656
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11899
Surrealist poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11906

April 2025 (McGoohan)
The Beautiful Ones (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-beautiful-ones---april-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63597
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11835

March 2025 (Night-owl)
One Grand Summer (Ewald Arenz, trans. Rachel Ward)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/one-grand-summer---march-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63550
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11820

February 2025 (Chrisull)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead---feb-2025-book-group-discussion-63501
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11809

January 2025 (Maclennane)
I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom (Jason Pargin)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/i-apos-m-starting-to-worry-about-this-black-box-of-doom---jason-pargin---jan-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63445
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11794

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Last two books of Season Seven

December 2024 (Westmoors)
Mind of Winter (Laura Kasischke)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/mind-of-winter---dec-2024-book-group-discussion-thread-63388
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11632

November 2024 (McG)
Appliance (J O Morgan)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/appliance-by-j-o-morgan---nov-2024-book-group-choice-63327
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11610

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