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2017 Book #3 - Swing Time by Zadie Smith
So all this rant could be boiled down to "the group doesn't give a sh** about me as the organiser and what I want"?Finally some change!!!
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"If 'War And Peace' could be boiled down to a single phrase, Tolstoy would've done it."
I wanted to read it along with a friend so that's perfect timing!
All hail queen atmosphere! Perhaps this system will work out better than the old one.
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Justin, didn't you have a bee in your bonnet about Ms Smith and her audacity in frequenting the same supermarket as you? or something.
Hello ! I d be happy to joign for the reading this time, but do you know where to find the book ?(On Amazon it is said to be released in July...). Thanks ! Viviane
Don't know about the supermarket thing, Alan, but if my memory serves me well, Justin tried to read White Teeth and was disappointed by how she depicted the boroughs where he lived. I conjure up Justin's spirit to confirm it) Btw, I quite liked White Teeth, although I found the British-à-la-Bridget-Jones-wittiness not suitable for this particular story and book.
Hello everyone! I'm new here and I would love to join you in discussing this book id possible. Is there a tentative date for this? Thanks!
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Early July is great for me, except if it's a Wednesday that will be voted for again, I won't be able to come as my Wednesday evenings are always taken...
aaaaaaalso: should we show up to the meeting with a title in mind for the next book club?
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Missed the vote. Damn goodreads updates!Book club picnic?
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Too bad it's the 3rd, means I can't join you again :(
Cool idea! Where would we meet tomorrow?
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Yeah, I'm not convinced... :IGood cafe instead?
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What about a British pub to have a good pint while talking about this British book?
Curious about your takeaway on this book, Justin
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It's not that I feel like this thread could use a control freak (hi!) but what if we said right now where would plan A/picnic take place and ditto plan B/pub? That way we don't have to do it last minute tomorrow for people who can't check on the thread all the time. Like having your clubbed seal sandwich prepared for school tomorrow. Go Canada!
I was thinking the Highlander cos it has upstairs and down - so we should get a table, no? Especially on a Monday? The book was all getting drunk in pubs, right?
Yes! Getting drunk in pubs and then dancing! Wuhoooo
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Highlander is the pub in the 6 ? near Seine ?
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If I come and I only read the first 30 pages. Will I be shunned and berated?
What time are you meeting tonight? I've only read a few pages too...
(René, manning up, stepping up and mustering his courage: but it's a BOOK club, dammit!)
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We need to make a call then : Plan A, Plan B, Flanby, Tant-pis...
I haven't heard any locations suggested in earnest for the picnic, so does this mean the Highlander pub is winning?
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well the weather seems good finally we can still try the pick plan )
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Books mentioned in this topic
Shunned, Betrayed and Loved (other topics)Swing Time (other topics)
Let me explain.
Sometimes, you get a group of people together, and the group has its own mind, and you think you're in control but the group mind actually develops its own whims and it gets away from any one participant, it's not about the alcohol, I'm talking about group minds, and the idea of choosing a topic for the next book seemed like a relic of a bygone era, and we were all there and we thought the book should be chosen, that night, not in the upcoming days, it was a decision taken by the group, sometimes a group has its own mind, it gets away from any one member, someone brought up the idea that we could propose books we wanted to read and choose randomly from that, and someone else latched onto the idea of random and thought it was good, and someone else said there's a site that provides random numbers, and we found it, random.org , and we had our list of books and we let the random number generator choose, it said on the site that the random generator is somehow fed by atmospheric fluctuations and so much more random than anything you'd get from a seeded computer generator, and it chose, and Justin's suggestion of Zadie Smith was selected, and so Swing Time is our next book, and that's how it happened.