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A book club - with a difference.

Lotus

Someone asked today if there is a book club, so I thought I'd try starting one. Not the usual type of club where everyone reads the same book - I thought we could write a synopsis of a book we've recently read, to give each other ideas for new books to read.

I have a Kindle subscription, so all of mine will be available on there for people who also subscribe.

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  • I just finnished a book called Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi, apart from the ending which I wasn't so keen on, it was one of those books you can sink into and be instantly transported to another time and place. 

    It's good to see a woman as pivotal in history as Cleopatra reclaimed from the Roman mysogynistic propaganda, that has plagued her legacy for over 2,000 years, People have chosen only to look at her through a lens of sexual availability and her lovers, rather than her learning and her political skills. We think we know so much about her, but we don't even know what she looked like, or who her mother was.

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  • I just finnished a book called Cleopatra by Saara El-Arifi, apart from the ending which I wasn't so keen on, it was one of those books you can sink into and be instantly transported to another time and place. 

    It's good to see a woman as pivotal in history as Cleopatra reclaimed from the Roman mysogynistic propaganda, that has plagued her legacy for over 2,000 years, People have chosen only to look at her through a lens of sexual availability and her lovers, rather than her learning and her political skills. We think we know so much about her, but we don't even know what she looked like, or who her mother was.

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