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Night-owl
Night-owl
1 Aug
10:15pm, 1 Aug 2024
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Night-owl
Picked up A thousand Ships and librarian cancelled the other thousand ships

Nice that in the early pages is a list of characters and who they are
GregP
GregP
3 Aug
7:08am, 3 Aug 2024
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GregP
A book or a Kindle on holiday? I know which I prefer. Oh, wait …

thetimes.com
LindsD
LindsD
3 Aug
7:12am, 3 Aug 2024
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LindsD
Open a book in front of your face and you have essentially popped yourself into a secret chamber with a notice on the door that reads, “Sorry, I am in Gormenghast/West Egg/a Brooklyn suburb in which a tense marital drama is about to unfold and so am unavailable for your bullshit.”

Brilliant
McGoohan
McGoohan
3 Aug
9:15am, 3 Aug 2024
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McGoohan
That is a superb read all the way through but I particularly loved this bit:

My copy of Little Women has “To Cecily, from her godmother, Christmas 1912” in an elegant copperplate that’s faded from black to old gold.

“A war is coming!” I wanted to tell Cecily. “You are in unsafe times!” I knew of her. She would never know of me. But we both knew Jo March and the war her father was in. We both opened the same book and spent our childhood in the same world, together. There isn’t even a name for this relationship — unless it is simply “books”.
Bintmcskint
Bintmcskint
3 Aug
9:37am, 3 Aug 2024
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Bintmcskint
Agreed. A most excellent read.
Thanks for sharing 😊
Seratonin
Seratonin
3 Aug
10:00am, 3 Aug 2024
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Seratonin
I have started reading The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy and wanted to guage opinion about books written without speech marks.
I find it frustrating at first but get into it eventually. Wondered how others thought about it?

Obviously most of us are conditioned to seeing speech marks and it makes reading easier. So is an author not using them arty, annoying or are folk generally not mithered?
Diogenes
Diogenes
3 Aug
10:17am, 3 Aug 2024
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Diogenes
If the writing is good enough it works and you quickly grow accustomed it.
Bintmcskint
Bintmcskint
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10:19am, 3 Aug 2024
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Bintmcskint
Yes, I agree.
I think it was a Cormac McCarthy where I first encountered it and it took a wee while to get used to it but was fine with it in the end.
Little Nemo
Little Nemo
3 Aug
10:24am, 3 Aug 2024
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My pet hate is when someone is telling a story to someone else in a book so you end up with quotation marks inside quotation marks. It's fine for short passages but almost the whole of Interview with the Vampire is like this and it drove me insane!

Like the others have said, I don't mind the lack of quotation marks so long as the writing is good enough.
LindsD
LindsD
3 Aug
2:40pm, 3 Aug 2024
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The Bee Sting is missing full stops and it works.

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November 2024 book


Welcome to Season Seven

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

Currently Choosinating

Not yet chozzed:
Westmoors

Already chozzed:
Little Nemo
Columba
Serendippers
Night-owl
Linds
Chrisull
Maclennane
Quimby
Dio
Fetch
The Scribbler
Grepples
Bint

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