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1. What we can know/Ian McEwan: lots of

Sun Nov 2, 2025, 11:17 AM

Nov 2

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stars and praise.

A British summer house party with a mystery. What happened to the lost poem by the great man poet?

Meanwhile, a hundred years of nuclear war, drought, floods, migration, etc. lightly brushed over. Acorn coffee and no more chocolate.

Lost poem no one has ever seen becomes the myth of lost beauty, extinctions, when art mattered.

I found both cast of characters deeply unlikable, self absorbed and ineffectual intellectuals.

Thoughts from anyone else?

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The madness of crowds/Louise Penny

I swear she’s psychic. After Covid. Also Sudan. Deep compassion and empathy or creeping quiet mass murder.

Even better after a third reading. Can savor her writing after digesting the plot and characters.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, November 2, 2025? [View all] hermetic Nov 2 OP

What we can know/Ian McEwan: lots of cbabe Nov 2 #1

McEwan's book is on hermetic Nov 2 #2

My Friends paxmoki Nov 2 #3

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood NoRethugFriends Nov 2 #4

I really liked that particular book of hers MuseRider Nov 6 #30

I just got the 2nd book of the Trilogy out of the library NoRethugFriends Nov 6 #32

I certainly think it is worth a read. MuseRider Nov 6 #34

"Face Off" Bayard Nov 2 #5

That does sound fun hermetic Nov 2 #8

Strange Houses spinbaby Nov 2 #6

Good Halloween fare hermetic Nov 2 #9

Pic, wow! Lovely Sunday. I early voted Friday, for amendments only cause no candidates. txwhitedove Nov 2 #7

Mmm, timely hermetic Nov 2 #11

Yes indeed, climate fueled storms. Has me wondering if i should move farther from coast. txwhitedove Nov 2 #13

Back in the 1990s GarColga Nov 2 #10

Thanks for that hermetic Nov 2 #12

Love those books! rzemanfl Nov 6 #28

I've read Mary Stewart's Arthurian trilogy a couple of times. rsdsharp Nov 2 #14

The Widow by John Grisham. FloridaBlues Nov 2 #15

I was flipping through Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto jfz9580m Nov 3 #16

Re-reading "Eleven Days of Wonder" Huin Nov 3 #17

I think you replied to me (rather than the OP) by accident jfz9580m Nov 3 #18

Einstein's Theories and Quantum Physics Huin Nov 3 #19

Thank you for the recommendations jfz9580m Nov 3 #20

I just read Rachel Cusk's first novel, 'Saving Agnes". LisaM Nov 4 #21

Looks like that is hermetic Nov 6 #24

Yes, it is! LisaM Nov 6 #25

Re-reading "Eleven Days of Wonder" Huin Nov 4 #22

Interesting hermetic Nov 6 #23

The Golden Cage - Camilla Lackberg bucolic_frolic Nov 6 #26

"Circle of Days" rzemanfl Nov 6 #27

The Widow by John Grisham LogDog75 Nov 6 #29

The Tiny Time Machine by John Stith. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 6 #31

At Risk - Patricia Cornwell LoisB Nov 6 #33