The Official Unofficial Book Group Book Discussion thread

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GregP
GregP
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Masquerade, possibly?
McGoohan
McGoohan
Jan 2021
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McGoohan
Walter Pigeon?
mrs shanksi
mrs shanksi
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mrs shanksi
LD it does feel decadent! I don't read books when I'm supposed to be working, but I love a wee tea break at the weekend with a book instead of the usual phone - scrolling. Also we barely watched any TV over Xmas.

I read Conn Iggulden's books about Caesar. They were OK, but I only picked the first one up because I was scouring the house for books during the first lockdown and my husband had bought it ages ago. I kept wondering what was fact and what was fiction, which ended up bugging me. A librarian friend recommends the one about Genghis Khan but I'm not rushing to get it.
Columba
Columba
Jan 2021
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Daisy - and Mrs. S - I'm exactly the same; will Read For Pleasure in bed (over cup of tea first thing in the morning, and at night until I start falling asleep over the book) but not read in the daytime except Serious Stuff.

If it's Protestant Work Ethic maybe, as a Catholic, I should give it up and pass my afternoons reading Light Stuff.
Night-owl
Night-owl
Jan 2021
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Night-owl
Have just finished The Children of Men. Thought provoking. Disappointed to have finished it but thoroughly recommend it. I don't often do that I shall blog later about it
Badger
Badger
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Badger
Grep's book of the year makes an appearance here, by some remarkable coincidence:

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Badger
Badger
Jan 2021
5:05pm, 5 Jan 2021
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Badger
Rubbing shoulders with no less than Tom Wolfe.
McGoohan
McGoohan
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McGoohan
Ha! That was the very line I took exception to.
GregP
GregP
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The Tom Wolfe one made me snort :)
Diogenes
Diogenes
Jan 2021
6:46pm, 5 Jan 2021
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Diogenes
I have the sort of eyebrows that make that quite possible

About This Thread

Maintained by Diogenes
Unofficial books, underground discussion, MASSIVE SPOILERS.

Some of the most discussed books include:

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
(mind-bending mystery with halls and statues)
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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (geriatric murder mystery from Britain's tallest comedic brainbox)
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The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
(Memoir of a homeless couple walking the SWCP)
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Milkman by Anna Burns
(Superlative prize-winning fiction)
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The Player Of Games by Iain M. Banks (Sci-Fi)
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The Watchmaker of Filigree Street by Natasha Pulley (weird steampunk)
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