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Book Group
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8 Sep
8:03am, 8 Sep 2021
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westmoors
Haven't started Doris yet as I'd just started Dream of the Red Chamber, which could be a very long slog. |
8 Sep
8:27am, 8 Sep 2021
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Diogenes
Possibly this should be on the "dreams" thread, but last night I dreamt I was doing a talk at a book group. When I got there I was late and the meeting was already in full-flow. The two millennials running the group took me in to a back room and asked me what my talk was going to be about. It was then that I realised that I hadn't actually prepared anything. On the spot I said that it would be about the Rebus novels by Ian Rankin. "Oh," said one of them, looking contemptuously at me "you like boring books then?" Instead of defending my choice, I wibbled and said I would go off and find something else to cover, and started to head home. I woke up and then spent half the night thinking through how I would deliver a speech selling the merits of Ian Rankin and explaining why his books were not boring. |
8 Sep
8:39am, 8 Sep 2021
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Serendippily
 did you convince yourself Dio? |
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8 Sep
8:49am, 8 Sep 2021
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Diogenes
Absolutely |
8 Sep
9:01am, 8 Sep 2021
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Hanneke
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8 Sep
9:23am, 8 Sep 2021
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LindsD
Sounds like a stressful dream, but it made me smile. |
8 Sep
2:40pm, 8 Sep 2021
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quimby
May have planted a seed there with my mention of Rankin yesterday What I'm finding particularly interesting about the one I'm currently reading (Black and Blue) is that it is set Before Mobile Phones. A lot of to-ing and fro-ing leaving messages everywhere. And some use of phone books. |
9 Sep
6:20am, 9 Sep 2021
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GregP
Bosch 3 is also all phone boxes and looking up numbers in books - but he has a ‘portable phone’ which he carries in his briefcase. The fist John Sandford is around the same time. I find novels set in the early 1800s actuales disorientating because the world was completely different, rather than slightly. |
16 Sep
12:15pm, 16 Sep 2021
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fetcheveryone
*following this one too, because McG told me to* |
16 Sep
12:23pm, 16 Sep 2021
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McGoohan
Good show! |
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