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Columba
Columba
Aug 2019
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Columba
How could he get away with that? Was he not being overseen?
McGoohan
McGoohan
Aug 2019
4:55pm, 14 Aug 2019
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McGoohan
He was the course creator/leader and quite senior I guess. I did a summer school - as you had to back then - which was when I realised a lot of the other tutors were quite unhappy with the course.
McGoohan
McGoohan
Aug 2019
4:57pm, 14 Aug 2019
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McGoohan
There were other 'disgruntlements': it wasn't all 'fiction by catholic converts'. There was also a quite angry and dismissive reading of Hemingway that basically wrote him off as a sexist hack. That got a few backs up.
Diogenes
Diogenes
Aug 2019
5:05pm, 14 Aug 2019
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Diogenes
Sounds like the way I’d run a book group
GregP
GregP
Aug 2019
10:20pm, 14 Aug 2019
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GregP
It’s the way Rich runs a Fetch Mile, too ;)

(Love ya bro)
Little Nemo
Little Nemo
Aug 2019
6:11pm, 17 Aug 2019
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Little Nemo
NA is done, off to add my thoughts to the thread.
Peregrinator
Peregrinator
Aug 2019
10:43am, 18 Aug 2019
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Peregrinator
Thinking about a comment by Autumnleaves in the Book of the month discussion. Do people have examples of a pair of books by different authors, where reading the second book made you re-evaluate (re-read?) the first one?
Little Nemo
Little Nemo
Aug 2019
5:13pm, 18 Aug 2019
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Little Nemo
The only example I can think of is Jane Eyre and The Eyre Affair. Peregrinator. The 2nd imagines a world where Jane Eyre has a very different ending to the version we know. Because it's a world where characters can live outside of their books there's the opportunity to rewrite the book. I already loved Jane Eyre but The Eyre Affair added some humour to it and made me extra fond of it.

In other news I have started The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock :-)
Serendippily
Serendippily
Aug 2019
5:33pm, 18 Aug 2019
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None I can think of Peregrin
Hope you enjoy it LN I was glad I stuck with it
Peregrinator
Peregrinator
Aug 2019
9:54pm, 18 Aug 2019
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Peregrinator
Thanks for your thinking. As LN suggests - one category would be where one book "bolts-on-to" another. Like your example, I thought of the play "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead" where Stoppard tales the characters and themes of Hamlet. Another category might be two biographies of the same person, where the second made you re-evaluate the subject. Interested to know if there are other examples from people's experience.

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December 2024 book


Welcome to Season Seven

December 2024 (Westmoors)
Mind of Winter (Laura Kasischke)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/mind-of-winter---dec-2024-book-group-discussion-thread-63388
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11632

November 2024 (McG)
Appliance (J O Morgan)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/appliance-by-j-o-morgan---nov-2024-book-group-choice-63327
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11610

October 2024 (Bint)
Hangsaman (Shirley Jackson)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/hangsaman-by-shirley-jackson---october-2024-book-group-thread-63280
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11598

September 2024 (The Greppler)
Florida Roadkill (Tim Dorsey)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/florida-roadkill---book-group-september-2024-discussion-thread-63210
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11489

August 2024 (The Scribbler)
A Thousand Ships (Natalie Haynes)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/a-thousand-ships---august-2024-book-group-discussion-thread-63153
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11435

July 2024 (Fetch)
The Cranes That Build The Cranes (Jeremy Dyson)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-cranes-that-build-the-cranes---by-jeremy-dyson---july-2024-book-group-discussion-thread-63104
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11364

June 2024 (Dio)
Bournville (Jonathan Coe)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/bournville-by-jonathan-coe---book-group-june-2024-discussion-thread-63061
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11356

May 2024 (Quimby)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Gabrielle Zevin)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-storied-life-of-a-j-fikry---may-2024-book-group-discussion-thread-63033
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11337

April 2024 (Maclennane)
Independence Day (Richard Ford)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/independence-day-by-richard-ford---april-2024-book-group-choice-63006
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11269

March 2024 (Chrisull)
The High House (Jessie Greengrass)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-high-house-by-jessie-greengrass---march-2024-fetch-book-group-discussion-thread-62965
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11192

February 2024 (Linds)
Severance (Ling Ma)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/severance-by-ling-ma---feb-2024-book-group-discussion-thread-62917
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11165

January 2024 (Night-owl)
The Rabbit Factor (Antti Tuomainen (Author), David Hackston (Translator))
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-rabbit-factor---jan-2024-book-group-discussion-62892
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11119

December 2023 (Serendippers)
The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus (Hannah Fry and Thomas Oleron Evans)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-indisputable-existence-of-santa-claus---december-2023-book-group-discussion-thread-62852
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11004

November 2023 (Columba)
Watling Street (John Higgs)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/watling-street---nov-2023-book-group-dicussion-thread-62830
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=10925

October 2023 (Little Nemo)
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Toshikazu Kawaguchi trans. Geoffrey Trousselot)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/before-the-coffee-gets-cold---book-group---oct-2023-discussion-thread-62811
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=10860

The last two months of Season Six:

September 2023 (westmoors)
Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/rabbit-run-by-john-updike---book-group-sept-2023-discussion-thread-62786
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=10848

August 2023 (Serendipps)
Queenie (Candice Carty-Williams)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/queenie-by-candice-carty-williams---august-2023-book-group-discussion-thread-62766
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=10808

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~~Season Seven now complete!~~

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McG
Westmoors

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