The Official Unofficial Book Group Book Discussion thread
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7 Mar
6:34am, 7 Mar 2024
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LindsD
*puts fingers in ears*
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7 Mar
4:52pm, 7 Mar 2024
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LazyDaisy
Diogenes that's precisely my problem with that novel. My sister passed it on to me saying how much she loved it. It made me feel queasy and I didn't finish it.
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7 Mar
4:57pm, 7 Mar 2024
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Red Squirrel
I’m reading Bonjour Blanc (a journey through Haiti) at the moment; by Ian Thomson. I’ve already read his Dead Yard book about Jamaica. The author has a knack of finding unusual local characters and unexpected expats. He’s an honest and engaging writer and brings home how hard and heartbreaking it’s been for Haitians and their country - being ransacked constantly by foreigners and their own people from times of slavery to modern day. He pulls no punches in describing past (and sometimes current) horrors but also finds beauty and kinship in day-to-day interactions.
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15 Mar
7:21am, 15 Mar 2024
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Diogenes
I finished The Time Traveller’s Wife yesterday. I don’t Linds would want to hear my review so all I will say is that I was very glad to get to the end. That was on Audible. My current paperback is Fake News, by Otto English, as recommended and forwarded to me by McG (thank you). When I added it on Goodreads I was surprised by how many one-star reviews it had. On inspection, these were mostly from gammons who accused English of being ‘woke’, presumably because of his dissection of Churchill and British legends such as Dunkirk. However, some of the other criticisms are more valid. There are lots of facts and not much argument or nuance. The author is given to sweeping statements that don’t all bear examination. Still, it’s an entertaining and informative work, I’m only sorry I won’t remember more than a 10th of what I read. |
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15 Mar
7:26am, 15 Mar 2024
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LindsD
It's ok. I'm sorry. I think I will stop recommending books to you 
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15 Mar
7:26am, 15 Mar 2024
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LindsD
I'm really struggling with An Instance of the Fingerpost.
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15 Mar
7:47am, 15 Mar 2024
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McGoohan
That's on our shelves somewhere. I think Liebling gave up on that half-way through
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15 Mar
7:55am, 15 Mar 2024
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Serendippily
I loved that at the time. I was quite a big Iain Pears fan
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15 Mar
8:04am, 15 Mar 2024
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McGoohan
Probably fair critique Dio - I think Otto English's writing style matches his Tweets (where he used to post all this stuff)
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15 Mar
8:35am, 15 Mar 2024
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LindsD
I was seduced by 99p Kindle even though I@m pretty sure I have the physical book on the shelf here. Idiot.
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