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Fiso book club - March 2014 - Life after life - discuss

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Poll ended at 24 Feb 2014, 19:30

The Last Kingdom - Bernard Cornwell
3
21%
The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
2
14%
'Serious' - John McEnroe
2
14%
Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde
1
7%
Life After Life - Kate Atkinson
6
43%
 
Total votes: 14

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Fiso book club - March 2014 - Life after life - discuss

Post by WilBert »

Following on from A74's excellent idea for starting a book club. I thought I'd kick things off with opening a thread for March.

Please reply below with your nominations. Nominations can be made until 21/2 and then we'll vote until 28/2. If anyone can't get hold of the book I'll arrange a link to an epub/PDF that can be read using a free e-reader like sumatraPDF.

Nominations now closed, let the voting begin!

Vote result
3 - The Last Kingdom - Bernard Cornwell
2 - The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell
2 - 'Serious' - John McEnroe
1 - Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde
6 - Life After Life - Kate Atkinson

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Thanks Wilbert. I will choose "Last Kingdom" my original choice, although I don't have a e reader, I will do my best to source whichever book is chosen from a second hand book store if the e reader approach is chosen.

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Cheers Wilbert (and Achiles for a very good idea).


I'll have a think and make a suggestion in the next couple of days.

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The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists - Robert Tressell

A bit politically socialist but it's one I've been meaning to read for a while.

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Achiles74 wrote: although I don't have a e reader
http://download.cnet.com/Sumatra-PDF/30 ... 98785.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Click on the link and download, you can then open any pdf/epub using this program.

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Not a Cornwell fan I'm afraid, so the other gets my vote!


Good idea this :D

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I'm happy to read (or re-read) anything, but if I don't enjoy a book, I won't finish it. I'll have a think about nominations later...

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The Last Kingdom is a great book and, probably more importantly, the opener of a great series. From memory t works fine as a stand alone book

A strange choice for a book club as it is 10 years old (the series is still ongoing though - on about book 5 now).

Not at all keen on the other proposal and wouldn't read it, we'd probably be better off sticking to fiction (or sports books?), at least initially.

To get me onboard you are going to have to come up with something good as I have a load of great books queuing up to be read (including the last couple of Bernard Cornwell's!)

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If a sports book how about fergies latest autobiography? I would have to reserve it from the library.

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A sporting biography I'd be interested in reading (not sure why I haven't already) is John McEnroe 'Serious'.

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Not sure about biographies, especially as so many of the more famous people will have it ghost-written. I will nominate Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey (not the Mummy-porn book!).

Set in the future, a settled society is heavily organised on a caste system based on the amount of the colour spectrum each person can see.

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I've just started Life After Life, so I'll be lazy and nominate that. :)
Life After Life is a 2013 novel by Kate Atkinson. It won the 2013 Costa Book Awards (Novel) and was shortlisted for the 2013 Orange Prize for Fiction and It was also selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by the editors of the New York Times Book Review.

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Voting now open, please vote and confirm you'll be taking part so we can (kinda) tally the voting.

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Rob wrote:I've just started Life After Life, so I'll be lazy and nominate that. :)
Life After Life is a 2013 novel by Kate Atkinson. It won the 2013 Costa Book Awards (Novel) and was shortlisted for the 2013 Orange Prize for Fiction and It was also selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by the editors of the New York Times Book Review.
Is this set in Punxsutawney :wink:

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Wilbert - in
Surprised - in

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Knackers, forgot about this.

Was going to nominate 'On the Road' by Jack Kerouac


A classic of its time and for some reason, I've never read it. Can you bank that for next month please?

I'm in.

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ACHILES74 IN

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I'll join in please

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I'm in

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Is life after life a romantic chick flick type book?

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Achiles74 wrote:Is life after life a romantic chick flick type book?
No

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In

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WilBert wrote:This might help
So its basically a riff on "Highlander" in a different manner.

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I think we talk about the book once we've all read it.

(But the more you protest about it I imagine it might get more votes :wink: )

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Looks like it will be Life After Life

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4 more people for the last kingdom required, actually don't mind reading life after life.

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8 confirmed In's 14 votes.

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I'm in.

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So what happens now? Just about to download the winner. When do we start talking bollocks?

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