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Little Nemo 22 May 1:31pm, 22 May 2025 17,269 posts	Quote Pin Little Nemo
Little Nemo 22 May 10:03pm, 22 May 2025 17,270 posts	Quote Pin Little Nemo I was listening to a random BBC Sounds drama while doing the housework today, it was about a woman struggling to be a playwright in New York. About half-way through it mentions writing letters to get old books from a London bookshop in the 40s. I thought "that sounds like the plot 84 Charing Cross Road, how odd" And then at the end of the drama it was revealed that the story was about the woman who wrote it - d'oh! I guess I should have recognised her name
LindsD 22 May 10:18pm, 22 May 2025 74,264 posts	Quote Pin LindsD
Diogenes 24 May 11:04am, 24 May 2025 92,051 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Just wanted to ask a question of the thread - Am I the only person in the world who didn’t particularly like the Adrian Mole book(s) (I only read the first one) and didn’t find them funny? I can see the humour in them, but it doesn’t provoke in me the laugh-out-loud reaction others had. I found it a bit lame
Little Nemo 24 May 11:50am, 24 May 2025 17,277 posts	Quote Pin Little Nemo I loved them but I was a teenager at the time. I did reread one and it was good, just not as brilliant as when I first read it.
westmoors 24 May 11:54am, 24 May 2025 9,552 posts	Quote Pin westmoors I read them when they first came out. Can't recall if I laughed-out-loud or just sniggered to myself.
Bazoaxe 24 May 1:12pm, 24 May 2025 28,378 posts	Quote Pin Bazoaxe I didn’t even read them and never felt the need to.
Night-owl 24 May 1:42pm, 24 May 2025 47,934 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl Never read them. Got a 2nd hand copy the other year its somewhere indoors
Columba 24 May 7:17pm, 24 May 2025 22,776 posts	Quote Pin Columba I enjoyed them, but not enough to get my own copies (borrowed them).
LindsD 24 May 11:28pm, 24 May 2025 74,279 posts	Quote Pin LindsD I liked the first one I think but not LOL. I don't like awkward humour much

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May 2025 book

Welcome to Season Eight

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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