Bint's Chocolate Box Selection - April 2020 Book Group TBR discussion thread

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Results:
QF1

La Bete Humaine - Emile Zola 45%
beats

Elmet - Fiona Mozley 25%
Killing the x - 30%
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QF2:

The Impossible Climb - Mark Synnott 36.8%

beats
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - Elif Shafak 26.3%
Killing the x - 36.8% (we'll draw a discreet veil over that)
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QF3:

The Word For Woman Is Wilderness - Abi Andrews 44.4%

beats
The Body Lies - Jo Baker 22.2%
x - killing the x 33.3%
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QF4:

Wally Funk's Race For Space - Sue Nelson 47.6%

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Black Box Thinking - Matthew Syed 23.8%
x - killing the x 28.6%
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About This Thread

Maintained by McGoohan
This month, we're having a bit of a switcheroo for them as wants to take part.

1. Post a picture of your To Be Read pile in the gallery. Failing that, simply post a list of your TBR books if say they are on Kindle or Audible.

2. Bint, as this month's sacred choosinator, will choose a book for each participant from their posted picture.

3. In turn, the rest of us will decide by committee what Bint's April book shall be.

4. Read it.

5. Review it. Here.

Here are our choisisees:

Dipps - Robinson Crusoe

Owlie - The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Peregrinator - A Rogue's Life

Little Nemo - Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

McG - The Haunting of Hill House - 4/10 (first to finish! Go me! Go me!)

Linds - Great Expectations

Dio - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things

Columba - A Pair of Blue Eyes

Wriggling Snake - End of the World Running Club

Scribbler - What Red Was

PaulaMc - The Mirror and the Light

Bazoaxe - The Light Between the Oceans

Badger - The Quarry

Bint - ? see below

A book for Bint:
The Word For Woman Is Wilderness - Abi Andrews

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