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Have you read.... ?

422 replies

bettbattenburg · 22/11/2020 13:47

Have you read this book?

Answer and then name a book for the next person.

This thing of darkness by Harry Thompson ?

OP posts:
BestIsWest · 09/12/2020 14:12

Yes. Lovely.

The Five

KiposWonderbeasts · 09/12/2020 14:39

Yes - and wasn't it brilliant!

Silence Of The Girls -Pat Barker

SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 10/12/2020 00:05

No

Life and Fate

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SophieB100 · 10/12/2020 08:06

No

The L Shaped Room - Lynne Reid Banks

AdaColeman · 10/12/2020 08:09

Yes

Fatherland - Robert Harris?

sleepyhead · 10/12/2020 16:43

Yes

Dominion - CJ Sansom

JaneJeffer · 11/12/2020 00:35

No

The Sea?

ClearingSpaceOnTheTrophyShelf · 11/12/2020 18:33

God, no!

First term at Mallory towers?

PyongyangKipperbang · 11/12/2020 18:59

Yes

All Who Go Do Not Return (Shulem Deen)

Highly recommend by the way

mum2jakie · 11/12/2020 19:00

Yes - or at least re-reading it currently! Love Enid Blyton!

N or M? Agatha Christie

SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 11/12/2020 19:01

Of course!

The Lord of the Rings?

SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 11/12/2020 19:01

Oops - that was to Malory Towers!

PyongyangKipperbang · 11/12/2020 19:06

I'll go again then!!

Yes to LotR and No to Agatha!

All Who Go Do Not Return
Shulem Deen

ClearingSpaceOnTheTrophyShelf · 12/12/2020 09:51

No. Any good?

The girl on the train?

SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 12/12/2020 19:58

Yes (meh)

The Mortdecai Trilogy?

IfeellikeaJoan · 12/12/2020 21:09

No

A pair of blue eyes

PyongyangKipperbang · 12/12/2020 21:15

No

Asterix and the Big Fight

ClearingSpaceOnTheTrophyShelf · 13/12/2020 17:13

I don't think so. We did a few in French at school and it rather killed them for me.

Disgrace (J.M. Coetzee)?

AudTheDeepAndCrispAndEven · 13/12/2020 17:22

No. is that the South African author?

The Long Call, Anne Cleeves

ClearingSpaceOnTheTrophyShelf · 13/12/2020 17:51

(Not answering because I just had a turn, but yes. Absolutely incredible book)

MaudTheInvincible · 14/12/2020 10:15

The Long Call, Anne Cleeves no

The Nutcracker, by ETA Hoffmann?

BestIsWest · 14/12/2020 10:33

No.

Cold Comfort Farm

Seriouslymole · 14/12/2020 10:36

Yes loved it.

The Dust Diaries by Owen Sheers?

SophieB100 · 14/12/2020 16:32

No, but I will, love Owen Sheers poem "Mametz Wood", my year 10s are studying it for their Lit exam.

Madame Bovary?

BestIsWest · 14/12/2020 17:02

No

(But wanted to add that I also love Owen Sheers work)

In Cold Blood