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Blog: I Read Books: Moby Dick from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 10 months agoMoby Dick Herman Melville wrote a book about whaling. Ishmael joins a whaling ship to discover that the captain, Ahab, lost a leg to an especially vicious white […]
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Blog: Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka review – a vast danse macabre from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 10 months agoThe Nigerian writer’s first novel in nearly 50 years is a vivid, shocking story of political corruption in a country much like his homelandWole Soyinka’s new nov […]
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Blog: 122. The Case of the Bizarre Bouquet from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 10 months agoThe Case of the Bizarre Bouquet. Enola Holmes #3. Nancy Springer. 2008. 170 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: It is difficult to choose a new name for […]
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Blog: 121. The Case of the Left-Handed Lady from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 10 months agoThe Case of the Left-Handed Lady (Enola Holmes #2) Nancy Springer. 2007. 234 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: With a shock of astonishment I read the card […]
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Blog: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr review – all human life is here from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 10 months agoClassical philosophy meets the climate crisis in the Pulitzer prize-winner’s propulsive novel stretching over 700 yearsConstantinople, 1453. A young girl darts t […]
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Blog: Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Condé – a village united by a vagabond from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 10 months agoThe death of a newcomer to a Guadeloupean community sparks a meandering, fascinating novel about the locals’ interconnected livesWhen the committee for the Nobel p […]
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Blog: And Away… review – how Bob Mortimer went from sidekick to standalone from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 10 months agoAn often moving memoir examines the comedian’s unlikely journey from Big Nights Out to riverbank ruminations with Paul WhitehouseNo one was more surprised than B […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
I review oat milk in the group Nerdy Reviews: 3 years, 10 months agoOver on Matt’s Big Fat Arse (my weight loss blog), I review Oat Milk.
Oat milk: Is it worth the fuss?
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Blog: The Magician by Colm TóibÃn review – a difficult Mann to know from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 10 months agoThis dramatisation of Thomas Mann’s private and public life never quite convinces as biography or fictionThe German writer Thomas Mann (1875-1955) defied his b […]
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Blog: I Read Stories: Main Drain by Joanna Theiss from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 10 months agoMain Drain by Joanna Theiss in Barren Joan returns to the town she lived in when small and gets a job at swim camp, looking after younger kids. One of them gets […]
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Blog: Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen review – spiritual successor to The Corrections from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 10 months agoThe pastor’s family at the heart of Franzen’s sixth novel – a bravura examination of the mores of liberal America in 1971 – are his most sympathetic creatio […]
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Blog: 120. The Case of the Missing Marquess from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 10 months agoThe Case of the Missing Marquess. (Enola Holmes #1) Nancy Springer. 2006. 216 pages. [Source: Library]First sentence: I would very much like to know why my mother […]
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Blog: A Slow Fire Burning by Paula Hawkins audiobook review – Rosamund Pike turns up the heat from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 10 months agoA body on a houseboat and twists galore in this gripping thriller narrated by the Hollywood actor – plus this week’s other picksThe gripping new thriller from the […]
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Blog: Amanda Gorman: ‘I wanted my words to re-sanctify the steps of the Capitol’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 10 months agoThe youngest presidential inaugural poet in US history on Toni Morrison, the power of language and her debut children’s bookMy earliest reading memoryMy mom b […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
How not to promote a book on Facebook: A case study in the group Author Buzz HQ: 3 years, 10 months agoIt was my birthday recently and with that day came a perfect case study on how to not promote a book.
In this post, I am going to break down three things: What the author did wrong, why it was a bad idea, and […]
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Blog: Dinner Party: A Tragedy by Sarah Gilmartin review – family’s subtle poison from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 10 months agoA finely observed Irish debut about a monstrous mother and dysfunctional siblings Kate slips away during a family dinner to throw a perfect baked alaska in the […]
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Blog: Wole Soyinka: ‘This book is my gift to Nigeria’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 10 months agoThe Nobel laureate has produced plays, poems, essays and even inspired a pop duo but he hasn’t written a novel for nearly half a century – until nowAt 87, Wole S […]
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Blog: Tom Gauld’s idea for an instant bestseller – cartoon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 10 months agoContinue reading…
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Blog: I Watch Films: The Caine Mutiny from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 10 months agoThe Caine Mutiny It’s 1943 and Willie Keith, a newly commissioned ensign fresh from a 90 day officer training course, reports aboard the USS Caine, a d […]
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Blog: My Secret Brexit Diary by Michel Barnier review – a British roasting from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 10 months agoThe EU’s chief negotiator found his UK counterparts bizarrely unfocused during the long haul to fix a Brexit deal – and believes they still don’t know what they’ […]
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Blog: 119. Pride and Premeditation from
Becky's Book Reviews in the group Book bloggers 3 years, 10 months agoPride and Premeditation. (Jane Austen Murder Mystery #1) Tirzah Price. 2021. [April] 368 pages. [Source: Review copy]First sentence: It is a truth universally […]
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Blog: A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century review – self-help laced with pseudoscience from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 10 months agoHeather Heying and Bret Weinstein attempt to show how human nature is at odds with modern society, but their science, and style, gratesImagine discovering a fence […]
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Blog: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr review – a joyous epic of love and survival from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 3 years, 10 months agoThe Pulitzer winner follows an ancient text from the siege of Constantinople to a spaceship escaping the ruined EarthThere is a kind of book a seasoned writer […]
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Blog: Red Pepper Paste from
Night of the Hats in the group Night of the Hats 3 years, 10 months agoI created this recipe in May 2020, under the conditions I note. I wrote this in July 2020, when lockdowns were easing and random shortages had been alleviated. I […]
