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Suggestions Wanted: Feb. & Mar. 2009 Fiction Book

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Olive Kitteridge

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I am new, so I don't know if maybe you have already discussed this one, but I would like to suggest Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. I just got this book for Christmas.

I hope I posted the link correctly.


http://www.amazon.com/Olive-Kitteridge- ... 934&sr=8-1
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Hello ruteger, welcome to Booktalk! :smile:

Yes,the link you gave was made correctly.
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I would like to withdraw my suggestion --The Woman in White-- as I'm no longer sure I'll be able to participate.
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Fiction suggestion for Feb. and Mar. 2009

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Inez of My Soul by Isabel Allende
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Hello Barbara, welcome to Booktalk! :smile:
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Ophelia, it's so good to hear from someone on this site. I'm quite unfamiliar with BookTalk, but I'm eager to learn. Barbara
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I'm planning on reading Drood the second it comes out, which is supposed to be sometime in January. Does that make it too late for the Feb-March discussion period?

It's also 800 + pages.
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800 pages? Really?

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I don't mind long books - having read the very long and very excellent Edgar Sawtelle - but they take me a long time. What is Drood about?
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If we're suggesting books beyond 300 pages, I'd like to suggest:

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

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Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, the hundred linked tales in Boccaccio's masterpiece are peopled by nobles, knights, nuns, doctors, lawyers, students, artists, peasants, pilgrims, servants, spendthrifts, thieves, gamblers, police-and lovers, both faithful and faithless.

http://www.amazon.com/Decameron-Signet- ... 772&sr=8-1
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Re: 800 pages? Really?

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Barbara wrote:I don't mind long books - having read the very long and very excellent Edgar Sawtelle - but they take me a long time. What is Drood about?
Chris O'Connor posted a description of Drood earlier in this very thread, but I'll repeat it.

http://www.amazon.com/Drood-Novel-Dan-S ... 290&sr=1-1

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On June 9, 1865, while traveling by train to London with his secret mistress, 53-year-old Charles Dickens--at the height of his powers and popularity, the most famous and successful novelist in the world and perhaps in the history of the world--hurtled into a disaster that changed his life forever.

Did Dickens begin living a dark double life after the accident? Were his nightly forays into the worst slums of London and his deepening obsession with corpses, crypts, murder, opium dens, the use of lime pits to dissolve bodies, and a hidden subterranean London mere research . . . or something more terrifying?

Just as he did in The Terror, Dan Simmons draws impeccably from history to create a gloriously engaging and terrifying narrative. Based on the historical details of Charles Dickens's life and narrated by Wilkie Collins (Dickens's friend, frequent collaborator, and Salieri-style secret rival), DROOD explores the still-unsolved mysteries of the famous author's last years and may provide the key to Dickens's final, unfinished work: The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Chilling, haunting, and utterly original, DROOD is Dan Simmons at his powerful best.
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