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McGoohan 29 Oct 9:25am, 29 Oct 2024 54,655 posts	0 McGoohan Okay, readers, I have rummaged in my TBR piles - it nearly fell on me, so narrow escape there. I have pulled this one out from the middle of the Book Jenga, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for political fiction in 2022 it is: Appliance by J O Morgan. Morgan's more known as a poet, but has published two novels, this being his second.
McGoohan 29 Oct 9:52am, 29 Oct 2024 54,659 posts	0 McGoohan Various gubbins added over there >>>> or there VVVVVVV or somewhere
Diogenes 29 Oct 9:59am, 29 Oct 2024 89,008 posts	0 Diogenes Something to add to my appliance drawer.
LindsD 29 Oct 11:17am, 29 Oct 2024 70,647 posts	0 LindsD Thank you
Diogenes 29 Oct 11:20am, 29 Oct 2024 89,018 posts	0 Diogenes I was trying to think of poets who have also been successful novelists. I think many have worked in both, but mostly poets are poets and novelists are novelists. Are there any who have excelled in both? Thomas Hardy comes to mind. Shakespeare, was pretty prolific, so much so that many people are convinced that his works weren't just the product of one person, but a collective pseudonym, and at least partly written by female writers (Jodi Piccoult, I'm looking at you). Also Stevie Smith's "Novel On Yellow Paper" and "The Holiday" come to mind, but that's just two of three novels she wrote. Who else?
DazTheSlug 29 Oct 11:40am, 29 Oct 2024 2,420 posts	0 DazTheSlug James Dickey was mainly a poet I believe, but wrote the awesome novel "Deliverance" ooh, Philip Larkin (I just read "A Girl In Winter")
McGoohan 29 Oct 11:54am, 29 Oct 2024 54,662 posts	0 McGoohan Vikram Seth wrote an entire novel, The Golden gate, in sonnets
Diogenes 29 Oct 12:00pm, 29 Oct 2024 89,020 posts	0 Diogenes Funnily enough I’ve never wanted to read that one.
McGoohan 29 Oct 12:04pm, 29 Oct 2024 54,664 posts	0 McGoohan I think I'm going to make it a retirement goal to rewrite James Joyce's entire collected works in limerick form There was a young fellow called Dedalus... Okay, I'm stuck already
Ocelot Spleens 29 Oct 12:31pm, 29 Oct 2024 39,838 posts	0 Ocelot Spleens Miraculous?

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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

Earlier book choices and discussion threads
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