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A Single Thread - August 2020 Book Group discussion ...er... thread

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LindsD
LindsD
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11:54am, 19 Aug 2020
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Oh. Must have got confused.
Diogenes
Diogenes
Aug 2020
11:59am, 19 Aug 2020
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Mrs D hasn't read it either. It definitely isn't her kind of thing. (She has been reading Christopher Ecclestone's autobiography for longer than he's actually been alive)
LindsD
LindsD
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12:27pm, 19 Aug 2020
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Have just given it to my Mum (realised that she can read it on my Kindle whilst I'm staying with her)
GregP
GregP
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9:37pm, 19 Aug 2020
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Yes, Mrs Greppers is reading it but very slowly, it seems.
westmoors
westmoors
Aug 2020
2:08pm, 25 Aug 2020
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I read this whilst on holiday. I'd never ready any Tracy Chevalier before.

Can't quite remember how I came across this one, but as soon as I saw it was based around Winchester I had to add it to my TBR pile. My parents are both Wintonians and I visited Winchester many times when staying with the grandparents as a child.

I have to admit, I concentrated more on the locations than on the story or characterisation whilst reading. Really enjoyed my virtual return to the city!
LindsD
LindsD
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It was well-described, wasn't it? My Mum said she could picture it exactly.
McGoohan
McGoohan
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As Dio was noting before, Violet goes on a walking holiday - it's on the Clarendon Way which I have done twice. I knew exactly where she was.
westmoors
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Just read McGoo's comparison with HP and proper review. Both very good!
Columba
Columba
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9:46pm, 28 Aug 2020
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There were things I liked about this... but overall it didn't grip me and I couldn't quite believe in it. I'm sure Tracey researched her period detail well. I liked the way that the intricate ins-and-outs of the embroidery were highlighted, and implicitly compared to the ins-and-outs of the bell-ringing. Undoubtedly that generation was short of men, and a lot of women went unpartnered for that reason, and a lot of people were nursing broken hearts as their husbands/fiances/brothers/sons had been killed in WW1. So it illuminates that decade in our history.

A single page illustrating the different embroidery stitches named would have been good. Also a plan of the cathedral; I know what some bits are, - the nave and the choir, for example - but the presbytery? As far as I'm concerned the presbytery is a house close by a church where the priest lives.

I just couldn't seem to believe in any of the people, and I don't know why not, since they were described in a perfectly believable way.
I'll read back and see what the rest of you think.
Columba
Columba
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The pedant in me cannot resist drawing McG's attention to the last (nearly the last) sentence in his most recent post on this thread... discrete - discreet, McG?

It's all right, you don't have to go out and shoot yourself.

About This Thread

Maintained by McGoohan
From the creative team that brought you:
- The Girl With A Pearl Hearing Aid
- The Girl With All The Grits
and
- The Girl With The Edinburgh Tattoo
comes this haunting tale.

Christabel Christington is a keen marathon runner but has terrible problems with her knees. Before long, and in mid-race, both knees fall off simultaneously. Handsome Simon Surgeonton to the rescue. Not only is he a knee specialist (and he has a few spares in his medical bag) and ravishingly handsome, but he also has a line of church kneelers designed for just such problems as Christabel's. That adventure can be yours if you read The Amazing Doctor Knees by Randy Tentpole.

Instead, you could pass your opinion on this month's book choice: A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier.

Your choice.
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