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Diogenes
Diogenes
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I still can’t see what anyone saw in The Glass Hotel.
Little Nemo
Little Nemo
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There's a joke here about see-through and not seeing but I just can't find it ;-)
Diogenes
Diogenes
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Diogenes
People in glass hotels...
McGoohan
McGoohan
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McGoohan
...shouldn't throw scones
Little Nemo
Little Nemo
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Little Nemo
:-)
Columba
Columba
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Columba
Very good, McG.
GregP
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GregP
A chance to vote for everyone's favourite bad technothriller author:

Red Squirrel
Red Squirrel
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I have to own up to reading some trashy fiction and enjoying it. When I was staying on my own in a remote log cabin in Moray, I ran out of things to read. Now there was a bookcase at the cabin with about 20 paperbacks in it. 18 of them were of a crime slant; think Death In The Pines. It was all a bit too close to home, so I went for the Celia Imrie-penned Note Quite Nice (Nice being the city). Read it in about 2 days and now considering getting the follow-up from the library to find out what happened to the characters. It’s certainly better than radioactive seals, but the dialogue can be a bit unimaginative.
Red Squirrel
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Red Squirrel
Gah! Not Quite Nice (not note)
LazyDaisy
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On holiday last week I read The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. I've read one of hers before, about the Great Depression in America, which was ok but this was better. This one was set in Occupied France. There were some jarring Americanisms especially to begin with, but the story of French women in the Resistance and coping with the German occupation was a good one.

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Unofficial books, underground discussion, MASSIVE SPOILERS.

Some of the most discussed books include:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
(mind-bending mystery with halls and statues)
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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (geriatric murder mystery from Britain's tallest comedic brainbox)
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The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
(Memoir of a homeless couple walking the SWCP)
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Milkman by Anna Burns
(Superlative prize-winning fiction)
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The Player Of Games by Iain M. Banks (Sci-Fi)
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (weird steampunk)
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