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Long train journey = uninterrupted guilt free reading time!

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LaceandChintz · 26/07/2018 08:34

So excited! Got an almost 5 hour train journey on Saturday. What else is there to do on a train besides read?! You can't do laundry or vacuum, work is done for the summer, I've barely managed to read these past few weeks I've been so tired.
Today I am going to decide what to read.

I'm almost as excited about the journey as the weekend away 😁

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 26/07/2018 18:30

How lovely - long train journeys with a good book are one of the best things.

Have you read:
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
This Thing of Darkness
Misery or The Green Mile

All would be perfect for a long journey - or the obvious 'Murder on the Orient Express' would be good too!

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LilacIris · 26/07/2018 18:32

I’m very jealous. I love the time on trains to engross myself in a good book.

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LaceandChintz · 26/07/2018 21:38

Remus haven't read any of those. Familiar with the Stephen Kings (dd a big fan) but will check out the others.
Been busy today but tomorrow is packing so will decide then. If I haven't got anything suitable (Grin) then we have a library and a bookshop within walking distance!

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 26/07/2018 22:03

Let us know what you choose!

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SatsukiKusakabe · 26/07/2018 22:45

Little Fires Everywhere is an easy one sitting type of read.

Remus recommends This Thing of Darkness to everyone, and no one has yet been disappointed Smile

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 27/07/2018 13:35

I'm on a mission!

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 27/07/2018 13:37

Also on a mission to make everybody read:
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
A Clockwork Orange
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
84 Charing Cross Road
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

All wonderful, but very different shades of wonderful!

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wildbhoysmama · 27/07/2018 13:40

This summer I've read these and ALL are fantastic:
Eleanor Ollifant is completely fine.
The Handmaid's Tale
How not to be a boy

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LaceandChintz · 27/07/2018 15:08

wildbhoysmama agree! Read all those!
Remus only 2 on that list I haven't read, Miss Peticrew... is on the tbr pile and the other one you apparently keep recommending is now on the list Grin

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 27/07/2018 16:26

You will LOVE - everyone does!

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LaceandChintz · 27/07/2018 17:04

Is it worth wandering around to the bookshop now?!

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RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 27/07/2018 17:22

You have a bookshop within walking distance?! Of COURSE you should wander around there now. If it has a coffee shop attached too, I will be horribly jealous (well, even more horribly jealous than I already am).

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LaceandChintz · 27/07/2018 19:46

Yes, a very nice and decent size bookshop about a 15 minute walk from here (no coffee shop but the town green is opposite and has a really nice coffee shack on it)
We also have the main library about a 3 minute walk away.
That said, I live with 3 other bookish people and between us we have A LOT of books. I've spent a lot of time today looking through the shelves picking out stuff to read this holiday.

Book wise, I am blessed SmileWink

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