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Seven Little Nemos a-swimming
Seven Little Nemos a-swimming
Dec 2016
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Pick me! I'm local ;-)

Plus I'm a fast reader so I'd probably be more productive.

Not started The Passion yet, I'm part way through The Wolves of London so I'll carry on with that for a while first. It's part crime thriller, part horror. It's a bit too "over-written" for my tastes and the dialogue is clunky but it's moving along at a fast pace and the story is interesting.

I've read a few Jodi Picoult stories. I really loved one, really hated another and the others were OK - so I found her quite variable.
GregP
GregP
Dec 2016
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There's an interview with that Essex Serpent woman in today's Times.
McGoohan
McGoohan
Dec 2016
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Anyone read that? I was tempted by it for the shallow reason that it has a lovely cover.
Chrisull
Chrisull
Dec 2016
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Essex Serpent - good but not quite as nice as the cover, or as weird - it sort of becomes a Victorian gothic love story with an autistic child in it and hints of supernatural. I was hoping for something a little more unconvential or modernist. Deborah Levy it ain't. :-)
GregP
GregP
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10:12am, 8 Dec 2016
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Thanks for that. I'll avoid, I think.
McGoohan
McGoohan
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Oh, well it's got that going for it at least. ;-)
McGoohan
McGoohan
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I mean Not Levy, not Not Greppers
Chrisull
Chrisull
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GregP - her first one, is quite a bit weirder "after me comes the flood", but not in an irritating way, a genuine strange, slightly surreal tale.
GregP
GregP
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Hmm. Will file under 'for consideration'.
Columba
Columba
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Finished The Fountain Overflows. Enjoyed it. Would recommend it to anyone who doesn't mind sorting his or her way through long, complex sentences.

Picked up The Passion from the library, and read the first few pages while sitting in a queue for the car wash.

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Welcome to Season Eight

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The Rest of Our Lives (Benjamin Markovits)
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We (Yevgeny Zamyatin, trans. Bela Shayevich, Clarence Brown or Gregory Zilboorg depending on edition)
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The Last Days of New Paris (China Mieville)
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The Beautiful Ones (Silvia Moreno-Garcia)
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One Grand Summer (Ewald Arenz, trans. Rachel Ward)
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones)
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I'm Starting To Worry About This Black Box Of Doom (Jason Pargin)
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Mind of Winter (Laura Kasischke)
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Appliance (J O Morgan)
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