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Serendippily Apr 2021 7:47pm, 26 Apr 2021 21,658 posts	0 Serendippily Ooh do I need to repick? I have a few lined up this one just seemed agreeably short!
McGoohan Apr 2021 7:52pm, 26 Apr 2021 49,225 posts	0 McGoohan TFPYMIH is readable in a day, two tops and is commendable for that. 6700 Amazon reviews, 71% of which are 5-star, 2% are 1-star. Currently averaging 4.5 stars out of 5. Also in its favour: very easy to get hold of a copy and copies available in your local library.
Peregrinator Apr 2021 8:29pm, 26 Apr 2021 838 posts	0 Peregrinator Literary pursuits This month Dipps chooses what we read A wordy route on which to speed To run an Atalantan trail which one will win, all others fail. All the readers await the shout giving the work she has picked out. This marks the trial has now begun: getting the book is half the fun. With lots of sites through which to trawl or fight a virtual library brawl. Many buy it on their Kindle (thought by some to be a swindle). Each can commence the reading race by line and page their progress trace. With languid lope or pace that's hurried Soon in that book we are all buried. Dipps starts to read with tiggerish glee and takes the lead quite easily. But in her path an apple's thrown: Somebody's house has fallen down. She turns, and away she scampers Off to give out food in hampers, set the homeless back on their feet and dust them down and make things neat. Meantime the pack is racing on her early lead is now quite gone. Restarting at the book-marked place she soon regains her speedy pace. A golden apple, stalk and pips rolls into view and distracts Dipps. A Fetchie thread needs witty quips which are supplied by Serendips. Her rivals she re-overhauls, but then a further apple falls: at which she slows and has to pause to blog about these strange apples. Back reading now, she sees ahead the sort of text all readers dread. A turgid mire of purple prose, where the plot's gone no-one knows. "Through it not round it", past the rest, She makes it through this final test. Over the page she lightly skims and with this dash, the race Dipps wins. The Gods approve this just outcome with Dipps first on the podium. For if from her that crown was pinched, this poet fears he would be lynched.
LindsD Apr 2021 9:26pm, 26 Apr 2021 46,606 posts	0 LindsD applauds I've also read it. And the other one. Tuesdays with Morrie?
Serendippily Apr 2021 9:36pm, 26 Apr 2021 21,659 posts	0 Serendippily Oh I loved that thanks Peregrinator I have Joan Didion “A book of Common Prayer” for 1977 but it looks altogether grimmer
GregP Apr 2021 7:17am, 27 Apr 2021 126,409 posts	0 GregP I've got a copy of the Book of Common Prayer on the appropriate shelf in my study...
GregP Apr 2021 7:20am, 27 Apr 2021 126,410 posts	0 GregP It's on the racier of the lower bookshelves. The one below it is this:
Serendippily Apr 2021 7:33am, 27 Apr 2021 21,662 posts	0 Serendippily I don’t think that’s the Joan Didion version
McGoohan Apr 2021 7:41am, 27 Apr 2021 49,231 posts	0 McGoohan Joan Didion vs King James Deathmatch!
Serendippily Apr 2021 7:44am, 27 Apr 2021 21,663 posts	0 Serendippily Intercession vs intercourse handbook (misread title and eyebrows shot up)