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what books has your book club done?

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DimpledThighs · 11/04/2007 19:26

do all book clubs read hte same things roughly?

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DimpledThighs · 11/04/2007 22:00

good point pointy (ahahaha - so wiity am I)

will propose it and see what happens.

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pointydog · 11/04/2007 21:17

har, no dimpled. I'm richard.

Of the people I know, my book groupers are most likely to perhaps be mnetters.

You should change your book group rules. Take it in turn to choose a book, no discussion, individual's choice, everyone reads it.

Just don;t be sensitive if everyone hates your choice.

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DimpledThighs · 11/04/2007 21:09

did not realise when I startded the thread but this is going to be great to make a list from and take to bookgrop- thanks.

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doggiesayswoof · 11/04/2007 21:01

We've done

Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox - Maggie O'Farrell
Field of Blood - Denise Mina
Mathematics of Love - Emma Darwin
The Tin Man - Martin Shannon
The Island - somebody Hislop

uptomyeyes · 11/04/2007 21:01

Northern Lights
The secret river (good book)
How I live now
The Handmaids Tale (great book for a book club)
Gem Squash Tokoloshe

funnypeculiar · 11/04/2007 20:57

We did Perfume for our first meet, sophiewd - suspect that's a book club classic!

sophiewd · 11/04/2007 20:56

A Piece of cake
Christmas Carol
Watch me disappear
I capture the Castle
Perfume
Saturday

is what I can remember and next we are reading I know why the Cage Bird Sings

funnypeculiar · 11/04/2007 20:55

We only do books with sex or death ... including

  • Jane Eyre/Wide Sargasso Sea combo
  • We need to talk about Kevin
  • Brave New World
  • Call me Elizabeth (trash)
  • 1984

Um, can't remember any others - we constantly nearly do Kiterunners & TimeTravellers Wife - but have escaped so far

Have some Japanese short stories next - looking forwards to those...

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DimpledThighs · 11/04/2007 20:49

hey pointy dog how could revealing your book group books threaten your anonymity - are you judy?

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DimpledThighs · 11/04/2007 20:48

I alwys want to read 'outside the box' but we always do similar things to the newspaper book groups and even (gulp) richard and judy.

This year we have done:

Kim
Time Travellers Wife
Case Histories
The Kite Runner
No1 Ladies Detective Agency

But whenever an unusual suggestion comes up it gets shouted down.

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pointydog · 11/04/2007 19:48

Can't tell you. Might threaten my anonymity .

But I reckon they end up reading a roughly similar mixture, odd wildcard thrown in.

saltire · 11/04/2007 19:38

Here is ours, as I remember them

The Alchemist
Kiterunners
Arthur and George
Labyrinthe
Birdsong
The Abortionist's daughter
The Island