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The Scribbler
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We had Beloved on the book group didn't we. One that lives with you...
Night-owl
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We did.
Was it you who picked it. I'm sorry I didn't read it
The Scribbler
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No, it wasn't me. I just checked back and it was Yorkshire Pie who suggested it with The Handmaid's Tale as the bonus book that (cheery) month.

I first read it at university but it made more of an impression on me reading it again that time.
Northern Exile
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Owen Meany is a great book but I dunno, maybe just a bit too dark. And the way Irving represented Owen's voice in capital letters grated on me. It was his biggest selling book apparently, you'd thought that TWATG would have that one wouldn't you?

I discovered Irving late, my brother gave me a copy of The Cider House Rules and that was it. That's pretty dark too of course .... I did get the DVD of the movie, but haven't dared to watch it.
LindsD
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That made me laugh, NE. THNT is pretty dark, too :) suicide, incest, accidental death, bankruptcy, etc.
Northern Exile
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Well, that's true. I suppose on a sliding scale of what creeped me out the most, Owen Meany swung it :-)

I do remember seeing the movie but it was years ago and before I read the book. Jodie Foster wasn't it?
Northern Exile
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Linds - you forgot the bear. Don't forget the bear :-)
LindsD
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Oh yes! I haven't seen the movie.
Diogenes
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The only Irving I’ve tried to read was Owen Meany, and I hated it.
Night-owl
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Did we do an Irving for book group or did i imagine it

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March 2025 book


Welcome to Season Eight

March 2025 (Night-owl)
One Grand Summer (Ewald Arenz, trans. Rachel Ward)
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
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I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom (Jason Pargin)
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December 2024 (Westmoors)
Mind of Winter (Laura Kasischke)
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November 2024 (McG)
Appliance (J O Morgan)
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