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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Feb 2025 Book Group discussion

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Diogenes
Diogenes
11 Mar
9:42pm, 11 Mar 2025
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Different, but definitely not sound (and I sympathise with all her other beliefs)
LindsD
LindsD
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8:34pm, 20 Mar 2025
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Hello. I really liked this. I don't even know why. It reminded me a bit of 'Miss Smilla....', an outsider woman in a hostile environment. I actually just glossed over the astronomy bits - I thought it would work without that, even though I'm sure it was probably massively important to the author. I worked it out towards the end, and enjoyed that sense of achievement. I loved the characters and the story, and the way that it ended.

I was glad I didn't read the back, because it gave away that the Little Girls were dogs, which I wasn't sure about until quite late on. It also gave away that it was a murder mystery, which wasn't clear to me until late on. I am vegetarian and hate hunting, so I was very much on the narrator's side. I gave it a 9.
LindsD
LindsD
20 Mar
8:38pm, 20 Mar 2025
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And actually Chrisull said it much more eloquently than me. I agree with @Chrisull 100%. Thank you for choosing this.
The Pin Lady
The Pin Lady
28 Mar
8:29am, 28 Mar 2025
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Sorry - I just couldn't get on with this one. Could have been the random capital letters in the version I had or I wasn't in the right mood for it. Might try it again sometime but at the moment - not for me.
LindsD
LindsD
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8:32am, 28 Mar 2025
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I don't remember random capitals
The Pin Lady
The Pin Lady
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8:38am, 28 Mar 2025
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It might have been the version I had - there were capital letters everywhere rather like the german language with capital letters for nouns. I found it very distracting.
Chrisull
Chrisull
28 Mar
9:15am, 28 Mar 2025
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Yeah me neither, I can imagine it would be quite offputting, like shouting random words.
Little Nemo
Little Nemo
29 Mar
1:05pm, 29 Mar 2025
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I couldn't connect with this book. Not sure if it's because I read it on my phone via the Libby app or if it's because I'm not Eastern European but I just couldn't hold onto the story. I had to skim read the last pages I'd read to be able to remember it the next day.

It wasn't badly written and it had a semi interesting story but it just didn't work for me. Also all the astrology bits were super annoying!

I gave it a 6.
Columba
Columba
12 Apr
5:45pm, 12 Apr 2025
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Finished the Plow, but am currently skimming through it again to see how the timing of the murders fitted in with the rest of the story.

Got a bit fed up with the astrology, about which I know next to nothing. However, some of the time the protagonist interprets astrological predictions as being a manifestation of the entire interconnectedness of events, and that is an idea I can empathise with.

It was interesting to be viewing the world through the eyes of someone whose mental health is a bit off kilter, in contrast to Oddball's; he seems to have his feet firmly on the ground. Also interesting to see how life is lived in rural Poland.

On page 79 the author says that the five lines beginning "Every Night and Every Morn/Some to Misery are born" is "Blake's most famous verse". Had I been asked which was Blake's most famous verse I would have immediately replied with "Tyger tyger burning bright...".

And I get a bit annoyed with people who condemn meat-eating but keep dogs.

But apart from all that, did I think it was a good novel? On the whole yes. And I loved many of the descriptive passages.
Columba
Columba
12 Apr
5:55pm, 12 Apr 2025
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Having read back... Yes, I forgot to mention the capital letters. They seemed a bit odd at first; then I took them in my stride, thinking maybe Polish does a lot of capitalisations, like German.

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