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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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  • Im presently reading D.J.Enright’s Under The Circumstances (1991 pub. Oxford Poets). It is a mix of poetry and prose and Im thoroughly enjoying it so far. He is accessible yet clever at the same time, in this volume the pages I have seen so far are challenging “groupthink” and the rewriting of (revisionism) of history. This latter point is something I feel strongly about (ie we shouldn’t do this and it is Orwellian) so it is good to read a writer coming from my own point of view. The book is long out of print, I found it second hand on Abe Books online.

    This is his introductory paragraph in Wikipedia 

    Dennis Joseph Enright OBE FRSL (11 March 1920 – 31 December 2002) was a British academic, poet, novelist and critic.[1] He authored the novel Academic Year (1955), an autobiography, Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor (1969), and a wide range of essays, reviews, anthologies, children's books and poems.[2]

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  • Im presently reading D.J.Enright’s Under The Circumstances (1991 pub. Oxford Poets). It is a mix of poetry and prose and Im thoroughly enjoying it so far. He is accessible yet clever at the same time, in this volume the pages I have seen so far are challenging “groupthink” and the rewriting of (revisionism) of history. This latter point is something I feel strongly about (ie we shouldn’t do this and it is Orwellian) so it is good to read a writer coming from my own point of view. The book is long out of print, I found it second hand on Abe Books online.

    This is his introductory paragraph in Wikipedia 

    Dennis Joseph Enright OBE FRSL (11 March 1920 – 31 December 2002) was a British academic, poet, novelist and critic.[1] He authored the novel Academic Year (1955), an autobiography, Memoirs of a Mendicant Professor (1969), and a wide range of essays, reviews, anthologies, children's books and poems.[2]

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