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I was flicking through a magazine and came to this about St Bart's hospital:
My brain cells started percolating with a vague memory about reading books by Claire Rayner decades ago featuring hospital(s) based on St Bart's.
I can't remember a thing about the books, though.
I've just been down a rabbit hole and found that Claire Rayner was trained at St Bart's. I had a look and seems you can read the books via Amazon at least.
Then I set to wondering if anyone on this thread had ever read them.
Could have been the Performers series or another of her series.
Here's one:
My brain cells started percolating with a vague memory about reading books by Claire Rayner decades ago featuring hospital(s) based on St Bart's.
I can't remember a thing about the books, though.
I've just been down a rabbit hole and found that Claire Rayner was trained at St Bart's. I had a look and seems you can read the books via Amazon at least.
Then I set to wondering if anyone on this thread had ever read them.
Could have been the Performers series or another of her series.
Here's one:
I am about to start the 4th and final book of the Henry Fleming Investigates series by Jay Gill and I have to say I have throughly enjoyed reading every single one of them.
I'm 25% through it at the moment.
It's not really interesting me but I'm curious about where it goes after reading some reviews on Storygraph.
This is the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction longlist. Has anybody read any of them? I have marked the three that I have. I would recommend them all.
I haven’t read any of them but Art Cure is high on my list
I am very keen on the Arundhati Roy, so this is good news for me!
Sarah Perry Death of an Ordinary Man is beautiful
I went to a talk last year where she spoke about the book and how we don't do death very well in modern society. She's an incredible woman
Thanks for sharing.
Love this prize! I haven't read any but I really want to read Mother Mary Comes to Me
I thought that was absolutely terrible when I read it and, although I finished it, I gave it one star and haven't touched an Elsie Silver since.
I didn’t get round to starting a new one yesterday so tried to read another chapter before bed. Managed two pages. If I was 75% through maybe I’d carry on but it’s felt like such a slog already. I’m in a foul mood this week and it is not helping!
Mind too plus Roy and Perry.
It took me until today to finish The Witch! And I skimmed the last chapter because I just couldn't take any more. I knew it was of bit more of an academic bent but my god it was so dull. How do you make a book about witches boring?!My Jan reads:
The Wager - David Grann
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
The Midnight Feast - Lucy Foley
Atlas of Forgotten Places - Travis Elborough
Butter - Asako Yuzuki
Beyond the Bounty -Tony Parsons
Just started The Witch by Ronald Hutton but don't think I'll finish it by the end of the month.
Once again, my own stubborn fault for refusing to DNF. One day I'll learn
Are any of you in bookclubs? How honest are you if the book isn’t good. Maybe I’m too honest and should let things go and say ‘yeah, nice, good’ Got the feeling in my last meeting that my negative reviews aren’t appreciated 
I would (and have been) honest. One book club I’m in is online and we all laugh about our honesty.Are any of you in bookclubs? How honest are you if the book isn’t good. Maybe I’m too honest and should let things go and say ‘yeah, nice, good’ Got the feeling in my last meeting that my negative reviews aren’t appreciated
I’m also in one with our local library. Only on the third book as it’s a new group and our next meeting is next week. I’m trying to finish our book for it (but I feel this is a book the library push upon us because the author is local). None of us suggested this book and it was the same when I went to a different library group, we got given this book without asking for it. It’s a bit slow with nothing much happening but I’m only 55 pages in.
Entirely honest. One of my bookclubs we rarely disagree but that's bevause we have been meeting so long we like similar things. The other is much newer so thete are polarising opinions.Are any of you in bookclubs? How honest are you if the book isn’t good. Maybe I’m too honest and should let things go and say ‘yeah, nice, good’ Got the feeling in my last meeting that my negative reviews aren’t appreciated
I only went to a book club once and didn't return as no one seemed to want to discuss their actual thoughts on the book, was so odd to me. like ok you've said you don;t like the book but tell me why! it's often just as interesting to hear why someone didn't like a book (to me anyway) and I love hearing different takes on thingsAre any of you in bookclubs? How honest are you if the book isn’t good. Maybe I’m too honest and should let things go and say ‘yeah, nice, good’ Got the feeling in my last meeting that my negative reviews aren’t appreciated
Maybe that club was just a dud but I expect it to be a place to openly discuss thoughts on a book be it negative or positive!
Super honest in mine it’s one of the things I like about it. Also sometimes people haven’t even read the book or DNF. It’s one of the few I’ve found where nobody cares if you’ve read or listened to it either. I went to a club before that was waaaay too intellectual and I felt so out of placeAre any of you in bookclubs? How honest are you if the book isn’t good. Maybe I’m too honest and should let things go and say ‘yeah, nice, good’ Got the feeling in my last meeting that my negative reviews aren’t appreciated
i’ve never been in an in-person one but thread regulars will know that my thoughts on where the crawdads sing got me politely asked to leave a facebook oneAre any of you in bookclubs? How honest are you if the book isn’t good. Maybe I’m too honest and should let things go and say ‘yeah, nice, good’ Got the feeling in my last meeting that my negative reviews aren’t appreciated
likewise my thoughts on pretending by holly bourne - i thought the POINT was to write essays on your feelings!i don’t feel that there’s any point in having a group discussion if ONLY positive reviews are allowed
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