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

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Apr 2020
9:09pm, 5 Apr 2020
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Little Nemo
Enjoy! :-)
Apr 2020
12:08pm, 7 Apr 2020
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McGoohan
I am one chapter from the end of The Haunting of Hill House Hammond by Shirley Crabtree.

I propose that we review our chocolate box selection here on this very thread and appoint our choice marks out of 10. I can then update the list on the right >>> with our scores.
Apr 2020
12:17pm, 7 Apr 2020
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LindsD
Sounds good to me.
Apr 2020
4:36pm, 7 Apr 2020
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McGoohan
And I have finished (in between not particularly exciting conference calls) Scooby Doo and the Spooky House by Shirley You Can't Be Serious.

I ****ing hated it. :-o
Apr 2020
4:41pm, 7 Apr 2020
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McGoohan
Hmmm. Of the books in other people's choisisees, I have a copy of

Robinson Crusoe
Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Great Expectations
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
A Pair of Blue Eyes
The Quarry

So I might be in a position to sneak a read at other folk's books as well.

(I'll ponder why I hated HoHH so much as well)
Apr 2020
4:42pm, 7 Apr 2020
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LindsD
Which have you not read? I thought you'd read The Quarry. If you haven't, I think you should, because I want to hear what you think of it (and Badger, of course. Not what you think of Badger, what he... oh never mind).
Apr 2020
4:44pm, 7 Apr 2020
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Little Nemo
I'm enjoying T7DOEH so far but it is getting a bit confusing. Or my brain is scrambled from WFH.
Apr 2020
4:44pm, 7 Apr 2020
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McGoohan
Well, I've read T'Quarry, and Great Expectations and the Defoe of course, but they could all handle a re-read. I loved GE when I originally read it. I hadn't expected it to be so witty.
Apr 2020
4:55pm, 7 Apr 2020
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PaulaMc
What didn’t you like about HH? I remember really enjoying it. Maybe I’m mid-remembering as I read it whilst watching the Netflix series that was based on it.
Apr 2020
5:06pm, 7 Apr 2020
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The Scribbler
I sidelined Bint's choice (no reflection on Bint) and read Wakenhurst over the weekend. Really enjoyable and atmospheric read. Enough of a mystery to keep me interested and some wonderful descriptions of nature on the fens. I'd previously read Michelle Paver's in Thin Air which I also enjoyed.

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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