Summerwater - Nov 2022 Book Group discussion thread
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Nov 2022
10:01pm, 28 Nov 2022
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Hanneke
McG... Thank you. I trust your portrayal of the book and think I shall sit this one out too...
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Nov 2022
10:16pm, 28 Nov 2022
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McGoohan
I feel honour-bound to point out that a) Columba loved it (see prev page) and b) I think you've had more correlation with Columba's opinion than with mine in the past, Hann (Under the Black Hill?)
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Nov 2022
10:33pm, 28 Nov 2022
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Little Nemo
Nice effort McG 
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Nov 2022
10:44pm, 28 Nov 2022
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Hanneke
True McG, true... I quite like stream of consciousness to be honest... I shall leave it for now though.
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Nov 2022
10:45pm, 28 Nov 2022
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Little Nemo
If it helps it's quite a short read
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Nov 2022
5:59pm, 29 Nov 2022
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Columba
That's brilliant, McGee. As mentioned, I went back and read it a second time. All the interrelationships came into focus; also I then realised how the fire had started. |
Dec 2022
8:13am, 2 Dec 2022
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LazyDaisy
Finished it last night. I confess I skim-read the seclnd half as I was finding the relentless stream of consciousness tedious. It felt to me as if Moss had an idea, maybe for a short story, but got a bit carried away and expanded it several chapters / protagonists too far. It got off to a strong start as the running woman's inner life was well observed. Indeed each individual vignette was good but the overall effect was of being trapped, just like the characters, and knowing that the only way out for the author would be some sort of catastrophe. Trouble was I didn't care enough; I just wanted it to end. It was a perfunctory sort of ending, too. This should have either been a much shorter story or a longer, more developed one. 4/10 for me. I should think the Scottish Tourist Board hated it too! |
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Dec 2022
9:13am, 2 Dec 2022
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McGoohan
Mine was pretty much the same reaction LD. I liked the opening because I thought 'that's what my thoughts are like when running - boinging off all over the place' but repeated over several chapters? No ta.
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Dec 2022
9:14am, 2 Dec 2022
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McGoohan
I did also think it was a bit of a less-focussed Olive Kitteridge
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Dec 2022
6:33pm, 19 Dec 2022
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westmoors
Sorry, didn't like this. Nothing more to say.
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