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

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8:20am, 16 Apr 2020
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Little Nemo
140 pages for me. I'm following it better and enjoying it more now.
Apr 2020
8:26am, 16 Apr 2020
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McGoohan
I have 5 pages to go. And the killer is.... ;-)
Apr 2020
8:44am, 16 Apr 2020
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McGoohan
And finished. OMG. Aliens *and* the Loch Ness monster?
Apr 2020
8:53am, 16 Apr 2020
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McGoohan
*Drums fingers waiting for LN to finish so we can discuss it*
Apr 2020
8:53am, 16 Apr 2020
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McGoohan
;-)
Apr 2020
9:18am, 16 Apr 2020
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Diogenes
I almost finished INSORT last night, but it got to midnight and I had to stop 20 pages short. I will probably be giving it a better mark than you might expect.
Apr 2020
9:23am, 16 Apr 2020
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McGoohan
I was struggling to stay awake reading 7DoEH last night. It was fairly daft. I had to go back several pages before I knew where I was.
Apr 2020
12:26pm, 16 Apr 2020
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PaulaMc
I'm glad you seem to be enjoying INSORT now, Dio :-)
Apr 2020
10:34pm, 16 Apr 2020
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Diogenes
I have finished INSORT. I’ve gone through a range of feelings towards it ranging from enjoyment to irritation, settling, in the end, on indifference.
Apr 2020
10:42pm, 16 Apr 2020
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McGoohan
I'll give a spoiler-free preview of the way my feelings towards 7DoEH proceeded. It has 60 chapters.

Ch 1-10 - 10/10 - what a total original - brilliant
Ch 11-20 - 9/10 - more twists and turns. Loving this.
Ch 21-30 - 8/10 - okay, that's a bit odd. But this is still great
Ch 31-40 - 7/10 - hmmm, a few misgivings but I want to see how this ends
Ch 41-50 - 6/10 - this is getting a bit tedious now.
Ch 51-60 - 5/10 - oh. That it, is it? Preposterous.

I am *very* disappointed with this book. It's a brilliant concept, but... well, it's not badly executed as such but he clearly had no idea of how to end this when he started.

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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