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Finished last night review later
Little Nemo
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*still* reading Rabbit, Run - need to pick up my pace!
Chrisull
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Meanwhile I have found the ultimate worst potential book group book ever and one that would make McG roll his eyes more than Deborah Levy ever did...

I just had to get out it from the library. My wife was reading the blurb last night with a very skeptical raised eyebrow.
Chrisull
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It's 1030 pages long, if you include the acronyms lists at the back...
Chrisull
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It has no paragraphs, each page is pure text...
Chrisull
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It was longlisted for the Booker prize in 2019...
Chrisull
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Here's the blurb:

"Latticing one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of 'happy couples', Weapons of Mass Destruction, and how to hatch an abandoned wood pigeon egg. Is there some trick to surviving survivalists? School shootings? Medical debts? Franks 'n' beans? A scorching indictment of America's barbarity, past and present, and a lament for the way we are sleepwalking into environmental disaster, Ducks, Newburyport is a heresy, a wonder - and a revolution in the novel"
Hanneke
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Quack Quack Quack 😎
fetcheveryone
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Lovely 1 star review amongst the glowing reports on Amazon. It concludes:

"Writers who produce long books have, in my mind, a greater obligation than other writers to justify the claim on readers’ time that their works impose. I would love to hear Lucy Ellmann’s explanation of how she ever thought this work might be worth the time it would take me to read eight shorter, less repetitive, tighter novels."
Night-owl
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No paragraphs 😯

No thanks

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February 2025 book


Welcome to Season Eight

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
Poll: fetcheveryone.com/polls-view.php?id=11809

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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Last two books of 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

Worry not, all previous runners and riders from all previous rounds can be found on this thread:
http://www.fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=58751

Currently Choosinating

Not yet chozzed:
Little Nemo
Columba
Serendippers - on a break
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Linds
Quimby
Dio
Fetch
The Scribbler
Grepples
Bint
McG
Westmoors

Already chozzed:
Maclennane
Chrisull

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