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On the Black Hill - Feb 2021 Book Group discussion thread

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Serendippily 13 Mar 10:44am, 13 Mar 2021 21202 posts	0 Serendippily I think I get that Hanneke - a lot of us have responded on how authentic we find the brothers situation. I had similar age brothers on a similar age farm (in Somerset) and a bundle of welsh border relatives and this did not ring true at critical points to me, and that tempered my enjoyment, but it is absolutely seeming to ring true for you and Columba who know the area (not sure what Dio’s excuse is )
Diogenes 13 Mar 11:08am, 13 Mar 2021 58400 posts	0 Diogenes Taste
Serendippily 13 Mar 11:10am, 13 Mar 2021 21206 posts	0 Serendippily
Hanneke 13 Mar 11:50am, 13 Mar 2021 71318 posts	0 Hanneke I read several other books by Chatwin I equally loved though. I think taste does come into it!
Minnie Mad 13 Mar 2:07pm, 13 Mar 2021 2962 posts	0 Minnie Mad Are you sayin I ain't got none?
Hanneke 13 Mar 2:10pm, 13 Mar 2021 71351 posts	0 Hanneke Knowing Dio, you may be right 😎🤣
Bazoaxe 26 Mar 7:00am, 26 Mar 2021 19322 posts	0 Bazoaxe I found this a tough read and actually found other things to do in order to avoid picking the kindle up. I read it so infrequently and a few pages at a time so didn’t really pick up the thread of the story either. Probably says more about me though than the book. Only a four
Columba 26 Mar 6:59pm, 26 Mar 2021 20960 posts	0 Columba I couldn't have read it on a kindle. I needed to be able to turn back and check things.
Hanneke 26 Mar 7:00pm, 26 Mar 2021 71888 posts	0 Hanneke Same here Columba. It is just not the same, reading books on a kindle.

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