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View Poll Results: What layered book shall we examine in November? | |||
Why Shoot a Butler? by Georgette Heyer |
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6 | 60.00% |
The Night Watch by Sarah Walters |
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3 | 30.00% |
The Overstory by Richard Powers |
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4 | 40.00% |
Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield |
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6 | 60.00% |
Ever After by Graham Swift |
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3 | 30.00% |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë |
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8 | 80.00% |
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I'm intending starting the Brontë shortly, but while on holiday, I read Once Upon a River, and enjoyed it very much.
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I'm in the middle of listening to this now. I'm enjoying it, and it's perfect for long sleepless nights, but I do think it's a little longwinded. More than once I've found myself thinking, "Just get on with it!"
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Ah well, I enjoyed the length because of the various interweaving stories. And I loved the look at Victorian photography. Rather harder to do than digital photography!
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I was delightfully surprised at the incorporation of the real-life Victorian photographer, Henry Taunt, as a character. What I liked most about the book was its slow meandering journey like the path of a river and the weaving of stories within stories. It does get mixed reviews on Goodreads though due to its slow pacing. I can understand why.
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I'm switching back and forth between listening to and reading Wildfell Hall and in one of those situations that recur with prolific narrators, I keep wondering why Richard Sharpe has shown up. Frederick Davidson's voice for Gilbert Markham is very similar to his voice for Sharpe in Bernard Cornwall's eponymous series.
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That's funny, issybird. I haven't hit it, primarily I suspect because I haven't been listening to either Sharpe or Davidson recently. But I have certainly hit similar before!
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I am reading an ebook, downloaded from the MobileRead library. I had started the book with a version from the University of Adelaide website (normally very reliable), but was a bit surprised by the slightly odd beginning and only at the end of the first chapter realised that it was supposed to be a letter.
Apparently some versions are missing the actual opening of the book, and maybe other parts of it also, so I do recommend the MR version, which is complete. |
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