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Let it snow Daisy
Let it snow Daisy
Dec 2019
10:13am, 21 Dec 2019
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Let it snow Daisy
Yes it is LN. There seems to be another book by the same name, and if you google either Dark Matter or Black Matter you get a random selection of either!
Little Nemo
Little Nemo
Dec 2019
11:23am, 21 Dec 2019
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Little Nemo
I *loved* that book, it was genuinely terrifying! Thanks for the info about the R4 programme, I'm going to look it up. Just the thing to listen to when it's cold and dark outside :-)
LindsD
LindsD
Dec 2019
12:53pm, 21 Dec 2019
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LindsD
I have been catching bits but I'm usually Fetching or dozing. I'll have a listen.
Winter purpleland
Winter purpleland
Dec 2019
8:29am, 22 Dec 2019
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Winter purpleland
I've read dark matter, it was really good. I don't know if I've still got it or passed it on. I'll have to look.
Columba
Columba
Jan 2020
8:44pm, 9 Jan 2020
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Columba
Rather to my relief I have finished The Way We Live Now. Certainly I enjoyed it, but towards the end (it has 100 chapters) it reads rather as though Trollope suddenly realised he had an awful lot of ends to tie up (there are about 6 plots running concurrently and interweaving). New characters are fleetingly introduced to provide marriage partners for the unwed-but-clearly-ought-to-be-wed, and one or two characters just fade unsatisfactorily away. Still, on balance I'm glad I read it.
LazyDaisy
LazyDaisy
Jan 2020
9:06pm, 9 Jan 2020
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LazyDaisy
I'm (somewhat belatedly, as it was published four or five years ago) reading and loving All the Light We Cannot See. I'm even going to bed early so I can snuggle in my bed and read :-)
Diogenes
Diogenes
Jan 2020
9:11pm, 9 Jan 2020
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Diogenes
I thought TWWLN was rather impressive, even the end. What was most surprising about it was how relevant it all was today.
Columba
Columba
Jan 2020
9:27pm, 9 Jan 2020
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Columba
@Dio - oh yes, absolutely relevant to today! At least in some ways. Not, of course, in the situation of women, who had very little autonomy at that time, unless they had an income which was all their own.
Columba
Columba
Jan 2020
9:29pm, 9 Jan 2020
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Columba
@Daisy - I loved that book. And recognise the inclination to go early to bed in order to read.
LindsD
LindsD
Jan 2020
9:31pm, 9 Jan 2020
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LindsD
That hasn't happened to me for ages, although there were parts of the Patrick Melrose novels that I felt like that about.

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