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3 Feb
5:45am, 3 Feb 2025
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quimby
Thank you @Diogenes - Cuddy is already on my TBR pile, I have added that one to my list.
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3 Feb
6:38pm, 3 Feb 2025
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Johnny Blaze
Recent books: How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin I liked this as it had a Dorset setting, an interesting premise and a few likeable characters, although it got a bit too complicated for my tiny brain and I thought the murderer's motivation was a bit weak. Steeple Chasing by Peter Ross Peter visits churches large and small in the 2020-2022 Plague Time. I enjoyed this as I am a church nerd, and it had some interesting facts and insights to impart. The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker Actually 3 books (duh): Regeneration - which largely dealt with the recovery treatments of WW1 "shellshock" patients at Craiglockhart in Scotland, including war poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. I enjoyed this very much and I thought it was a brilliant feat of imagination weaving in "real life" people and events of which I knew little. The Eye in the Door - focuses more on Billy Prior, a working class boy from Salford (like me!) who somehow worked his way up to the officer class and becomes a highly complex casualty of war at Craiglockhart. Also continues the story of WHR Rivers and his efforts to rehabilitate soldiers who are broken in mind and body. The Ghost Road - more about Billy and Rivers, with unsparing, unsentimental and really somewhat grim stories of the life and times of a WW1 soldier. Strong meat if you can stomach it. There are so many dimensions to this trilogy that it would take pages to describe them all. I'd just say read it and experience it for yourself. Highly recommended. |
3 Feb
6:40pm, 3 Feb 2025
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Diogenes
I read that trilogy soon after the third one came out and agree with all you say.
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3 Feb
7:11pm, 3 Feb 2025
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TheScribbler
Thanks for the Offing recommendation Dio. That sounds right up my street
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3 Feb
7:26pm, 3 Feb 2025
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Diogenes
TheScribbler wrote: Thanks for the Offing recommendation Dio. That sounds right up my street I definitely think you’d enjoy it, @TheScribbler it’s set soon after the second world war, when a young lad of 16 sets out on a walking holiday to see a bit of the world before returning to his Durham home and the job down the pit that awaits him. I won't give away the ending, but he does have his eyes opened to other possibilities. |
3 Feb
7:37pm, 3 Feb 2025
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LindsD
Agree about the Pat Barker trilogy JB
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3 Feb
8:21pm, 3 Feb 2025
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Night-owl
Not read The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker. Plan to read the first two of Life class
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12:04pm
12:04pm, 4 Feb 2025
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Columba
I like the idea of an anti-recommendation list, but couldn't believe it when I saw L of the F on it. I suppose people (in the relevant age group) may have been put off by having to "do" it for GCSE English.
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12:05pm
12:05pm, 4 Feb 2025
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Columba
Reserved Drive your Plow at the local library. Was warned I might have to wait some time.
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1:14pm
1:14pm, 4 Feb 2025
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LindsD
Requested from the library.
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