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A book club - with a difference.

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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 read widely, mainly but not exclusively non fiction. Ive a pile of 20C poetry books beside me. I get through these at high speed, recent reads have been Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Stevenson, Ezra Pound and Stephen Spender. Pound and Spender were political opposites in the 1930s and comparing their different perspectives was very interesting. Next Im going to read Thomas More’s UTOPIA, then a study of his contemporary Erasmus of Rotterdam. Im have no training in philosophy, am an autodidact, but the philosophy of people and history fascinates me, I like always to understand the why behind events. 

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  • I read widely, mainly but not exclusively non fiction. Ive a pile of 20C poetry books beside me. I get through these at high speed, recent reads have been Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Stevenson, Ezra Pound and Stephen Spender. Pound and Spender were political opposites in the 1930s and comparing their different perspectives was very interesting. Next Im going to read Thomas More’s UTOPIA, then a study of his contemporary Erasmus of Rotterdam. Im have no training in philosophy, am an autodidact, but the philosophy of people and history fascinates me, I like always to understand the why behind events. 

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