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Ok, ok. So I gave this book 5 out of 5, and was greeted with gasps of open-mouthed horror and amazement...
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A book of the year has alot to live up to. For some in the club, On Beauty didn't. I found it wonderful to dip into conversations that other people have but that I was afraid to listen to.
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As a first choice for the book club, I choose this book because of it's huge influence on other American writers such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Maya Angelou.
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A spellbinding novel set in the sumptuous home of a humble vice-president of an un-named Latin American country.
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My reasons for picking 'Things Fall Apart' are many. As with my other bookclub choices, I wanted to go for a different nationality (and in this case continent) to get us discussing literature from all over the globe.
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When I read the press release for Tatty I was intrigued. I had heard of Dwyer-Hickey before but had never read anything by her, so the following lines written by Colum McCann really grabbed me:
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Tim Winton's first novel is a classic character study, where not much happens.
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I'd read one line of prose about a year ago in some broadsheet and noted the author and work on a scrap of paper.