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HellsBells Mar 2023 6:09pm, 9 Mar 2023 31,031 posts	Quote Pin HellsBells I really enjoyed it Dipps - I’d heard an adaptation on Radio 4 before I read it
Ocelot Spleens Mar 2023 6:39pm, 9 Mar 2023 36,597 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens I have read lots of Vonnegut, years and years ago which are very good indeed. Also Fowles. Watershed Down, that's a good idea! I have The Sea, The Sea around here somewhere which I may or may not have read.
Serendippily Mar 2023 7:27pm, 9 Mar 2023 28,040 posts	Quote Pin Serendippily I thought the sea was ok rather than brilliant. I really enjoyed the monkey wrench gang and wouod read more elizabeth taylor and joan didion
Serendippily Mar 2023 7:28pm, 9 Mar 2023 28,041 posts	Quote Pin Serendippily So i think ill try the maupin and see if the sea gets gazumped
Ocelot Spleens Mar 2023 7:40pm, 9 Mar 2023 36,601 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens Watershed! Ha. I found The Sea, The Sea, it is in the bookcase in the hallway where unread books go to retirement, it's next to a Camus and a Ford Madox Ford.
Little Nemo Mar 2023 7:43pm, 9 Mar 2023 13,404 posts	Quote Pin Little Nemo I was going to read The Sea, The Sea but it just looked too long when I found it in the library. I went for Larry Niven instead but this was a pretty bad and dated sci-fi which I can't recommend!
DrPhleecingD Mar 2023 9:14pm, 16 Mar 2023 54,638 posts	Quote Pin DrPhleecingD Elizabeth Taylor is very readable..also her books are blessedly short
Night-owl Mar 2023 9:52pm, 16 Mar 2023 41,789 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl I bought The sea The sea planned to read it never got round to it
Night-owl 3 Feb 2:13pm, 3 Feb 2025 47,223 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl A big gap since my last one and because I have to do my choices in order. I found 1986 hard But ended up with A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine It was good 1987 next but not yet but soon I hope
Night-owl 3 Feb 2:39pm, 3 Feb 2025 47,224 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl My books so far Posting here so I have a list and shall pin it so I can get to it easy access 1968 The Reproductive System - John Sladek 1969 Rat Race - Dick Francis 1970 The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood 1971 Shroud for a Nightingale - PD James 1972 Watership Down - Richard Adams 1973 The Princess Bride - William Goldman 1974 The Rats - James Herbert 1975 Last Bus to Woodstock - Colin Dexter 1976 Sleeping Murder -Agatha Christie 1977 Quartet in Autumn - Barbara Pym 1978 The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald 1979 Kindred - Octavia E. Butler 1980 Rituals - Cees Nooteboom 1981 Loitering With Intent - Muriel Spark 1982 On The Black Hill - Bruce Chatwin 1983 Heartburn - Nora Ephron 1984 The Unbearable Likeness of Being - Milan Kundera 1985 Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit- Jeanette Winterson 1986 A Dark-Adapted Eye - Barbara Vine

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The plan to read a book that was first published from each year of your life.
Doesn't matter how long it takes.

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