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Columba
Columba
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How could he get away with that? Was he not being overseen?
McGoohan
McGoohan
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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
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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
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Sounds like the way I’d run a book group
GregP
GregP
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It’s the way Rich runs a Fetch Mile, too ;)

(Love ya bro)
Little Nemo
Little Nemo
Aug 2019
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NA is done, off to add my thoughts to the thread.
Peregrinator
Peregrinator
Aug 2019
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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
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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
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None I can think of Peregrin
Hope you enjoy it LN I was glad I stuck with it
Peregrinator
Peregrinator
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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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Welcome to Season Eight

July 2025 (Linds)
The Rest of Our Lives (Benjamin Markovits)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-rest-of-our-lives---july-book-group-discussion-thread-63735
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11915

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We (Yevgeny Zamyatin, trans. Bela Shayevich, Clarence Brown or Gregory Zilboorg depending on edition)
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Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11908
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The Last Days of New Paris (China Mieville)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/the-last-days-of-new-paris---china-mieville---may-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63656
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The Beautiful Ones (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
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March 2025 (Night-owl)
One Grand Summer (Ewald Arenz, trans. Rachel Ward)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/one-grand-summer---march-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63550
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11820

February 2025 (Chrisull)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/drive-your-plow-over-the-bones-of-the-dead---feb-2025-book-group-discussion-63501
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January 2025 (Maclennane)
I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom (Jason Pargin)
Discussion: fetcheveryone.com/forum/i-apos-m-starting-to-worry-about-this-black-box-of-doom---jason-pargin---jan-2025-book-group-discussion-thread-63445
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11794

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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)
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Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11610

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