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westmoors
westmoors
Sep 2021
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.
Diogenes
Diogenes
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.
Serendippily
Serendippily
Sep 2021
8:39am, 8 Sep 2021
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Serendippily
:-) did you convince yourself Dio?
Diogenes
Diogenes
Sep 2021
8:49am, 8 Sep 2021
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Diogenes
Absolutely
Hanneke
Hanneke
Sep 2021
9:01am, 8 Sep 2021
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Hanneke
:)
LindsD
LindsD
Sep 2021
9:23am, 8 Sep 2021
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LindsD
Sounds like a stressful dream, but it made me smile.
quimby
quimby
Sep 2021
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. :-O
GregP
GregP
Sep 2021
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.
fetcheveryone
fetcheveryone
Sep 2021
12:15pm, 16 Sep 2021
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fetcheveryone
*following this one too, because McG told me to* :-)
McGoohan
McGoohan
Sep 2021
12:23pm, 16 Sep 2021
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McGoohan
Good show! :-)

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April 2024 book


Welcome to Season Seven

April 2024 (Maclennane)
Independence Day (Richard Ford)
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Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/independence-day-by-richard-ford---april-2024-book-group-choice-63006
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March 2024 (Chrisull)
The High House (Jessie Greengrass)
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Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-high-house-by-jessie-greengrass---march-2024-fetch-book-group-discussion-thread-62965
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11192

February 2024 (Linds)
Severance (Ling Ma)
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Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/severance-by-ling-ma---feb-2024-book-group-discussion-thread-62917
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January 2024 (Night-owl)
The Rabbit Factor (Antti Tuomainen (Author), David Hackston (Translator))
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Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-rabbit-factor---jan-2024-book-group-discussion-62892
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December 2023 (Serendippers)
The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus (Hannah Fry and Thomas Oleron Evans)
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Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-indisputable-existence-of-santa-claus---december-2023-book-group-discussion-thread-62852
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11004

November 2023 (Columba)
Watling Street (John Higgs)
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Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/watling-street---nov-2023-book-group-dicussion-thread-62830
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October 2023 (Little Nemo)
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi trans. Geoffrey Trousselot)
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Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/before-the-coffee-gets-cold---book-group---oct-2023-discussion-thread-62811
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=10860

The last two months of Season Six:

September 2023 (westmoors)
Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
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Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/rabbit-run-by-john-updike---book-group-sept-2023-discussion-thread-62786
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=10848

August 2023 (Serendipps)
Queenie (Candice Carty-Williams)
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Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/queenie-by-candice-carty-williams---august-2023-book-group-discussion-thread-62766
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Fetch
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Westmoors

Already chozzed:
Little Nemo
Columba
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Chrisull
Maclennane

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