Boxworth Book Group

village book group, meeting once a month to discuss chosen books

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First meeting in a while tonight. Discussing Crow Lake by Mary Lawson. Anyone read it?

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saw sadie jones talk about The Outcast. Good book, but Stella Duffy, who interviewed, was by far the more interesting part of the evening!

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we are now officially the only book group in the country with our very own phone box book exchange. Yay!

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personally, I enjoyed gallows view in the same way as I would enjoy watching an episode of midsummer murders. limited, but comfortable.

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this months book The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Shaffer & Barrows.

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discussed Gallows View by Peter Robinson last night. mixed reaction. quite dated, an easy read. main criticism frothy treatment of issues

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Eagleman bk link http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_8_6?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=wednesday+is+indigo+blue&sprefix=wednes

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Eagleman, author of Sum, has also written 'Wednesday is Indigo Blue'. Have a look and see if you are a synesthete. 1 in 20 are.

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lively discussion of Sum by David Eagleman at book group last night. a marmite of a book, it seems.

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Hear the lovely Stephen Fry read the first chapter of sum http://www.hayfestival.com/bookofthemonth/12-nonfiction.aspx?skinid=15

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Eagleman explains why he has written 40 fictitious tales of the afterlife http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8246000/8246039.stm

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Eagleman has coined the term 'possbilian' and a new philosophy, possibilianism. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possibilianism

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book of this month is Sum : Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman