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Dana • Dostoevsky Bookclub's avatar

Thank you for your work, Simon. I am new here, but I am already impressed and I have regained my inspiration to read for the soul. It's worth a lot.

I have many ideas for possible books for future readings. But I want to focus on the non-obvious - the book of the Polish Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk "The Book of Jacob".

It's funny that this book of hers was compared with War and Peace and Mantel's trilogy. Such a coincidence. It is a 1000-page book in the style of magical realism, where fiction is intertwined with the history of Eastern Europe. This is a book about the role of women in history.

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Yasmin Chopin's avatar

Fantastic, Simon! An assistant sounds like a good idea as I can imagine the amount of work involved in this endeavour is huge.

I love the help and support you're providing for the #Wolfcrawl. Wolf Hall is an absorbing read, and not an easy one, so your commentary is invaluable. I look forward to continuing throughout the year and already I feel a deep sense of satisfaction in my reading of Mantel's work. Her writing is truly dazzling and I'm learning a lot from it. This is my second reading of the trilogy; there are few books I want to read more than once, but these three are very much worth the time. Your input and guidance makes the experience much richer and the community you've created around these slow reads is one I'm grateful to be part of.

My suggestion for a future slow read is Cormac Mccarthy's 'The Border Trilogy'.

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