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Little Nemo Mar 2022 8:56pm, 18 Mar 2022 12,833 posts	Quote Pin Little Nemo Finished Hamnet, found it a real slog. Disappointed as I loved her first book but none of her others have come close. I've now bought They and I'll start that tomorrow.
Little Nemo Mar 2022 5:45pm, 22 Mar 2022 12,846 posts	Quote Pin Little Nemo Haven't started They yet. I did try today in a coffee shop but it was just too noisy to concentrate. I'm on leave this week so I don't have my normal commute time to read. In other news I finished The Searcher and sadly it was a disappointing read for me. I couldn't connect to the characters or the setting and I found some of the plot points farfetched. I know there is a massive plot point in her previous work that annoyed virtually everyone but in that book I thought it just about worked. Hopefully I'll enjoy whatever she writes next more
LindsD Mar 2022 8:29pm, 22 Mar 2022 53,676 posts	Quote Pin LindsD I don't think either of her post Dublin Murders books have been anywhere near as good as those but I liked The Searcher better than THe Wych Elm.
Little Nemo Mar 2022 8:43pm, 22 Mar 2022 12,848 posts	Quote Pin Little Nemo I preferred The Wych Elm, I'm coming to the conclusion that I prefer books with not-so-nice narrators!
Sharkie Mar 2022 8:54pm, 22 Mar 2022 19,620 posts	Quote Pin Sharkie Raffo is with you Little N. I wasn’t beyond ‘ok’ with both. There was one over used plot thing in The Searcher that annoyed me, near the end.
Sharkie Mar 2022 8:55pm, 22 Mar 2022 19,621 posts	Quote Pin Sharkie And I stalled a third of the way through with Hamnet (but it hasn’t made its way to Linds yet).
LazyDaisy Mar 2022 9:15pm, 22 Mar 2022 35,465 posts	Quote Pin LazyDaisy I'm struggling with The Miracle of Castel di Sangro. I'm not very interested in the footballing side, I haven't warmed to Joe the author and I'd like to hear more about the family who own the club. Perhaps the second half will pick up.
westmoors Mar 2022 10:09pm, 22 Mar 2022 5,918 posts	Quote Pin westmoors Notification from the digital library at the weekend to say The Promise was available early. Downloaded and started.
Diogenes Mar 2022 10:47pm, 23 Mar 2022 68,273 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes I’ve got a ticket to see Andy Miller talking to Gwendoline Riley about her book “My Phantoms” at Foyles on May 17th. Quite excited
Fields Mar 2022 11:04pm, 23 Mar 2022 3,658 posts	Quote Pin Fields Started a book called “Prefab Boy”, by Gregory Holyoake. about growing up in Kent during the 1950s. A charity shop find, I notice it’s been signed by the author. Some charming descriptions of an ordinary child’s early memories so far.

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February 2025 (Chrisull)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
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January 2025 (Maclennane)
I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom (Jason Pargin)
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Last two books of Season Seven

December 2024 (Westmoors)
Mind of Winter (Laura Kasischke)
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November 2024 (McG)
Appliance (J O Morgan)
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