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+ General
* Reading Calendar - 2025
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* Introduce yourself
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last updated May 21, 2025 12:05AM
September 2025 Question of the Month
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last updated Sep 05, 2025 07:32PM
Obituary Thread (for our authors!)
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last updated Sep 02, 2025 03:29PM
Idle chatter!
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last updated Jul 12, 2025 01:33PM
July 2025 Question of the Month
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last updated Jul 06, 2025 07:47AM
June 2025 Question of the Month
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last updated Jun 04, 2025 09:10PM
May 2025 Question of the Month
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last updated May 10, 2025 05:34PM
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+ Book Pool
Book Pool 2025
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This topic has been closed to new comments. Book Pool 2024
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last updated Dec 31, 2024 11:27AM
This topic has been closed to new comments. Book Pool 2023
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last updated Dec 03, 2023 11:52AM
Book Pool 2023 reading options - extra challenges
By CindySR , Moderator · 12 posts · 47 views
last updated Jan 10, 2023 03:10PM
This topic has been closed to new comments. Book Pool 2022.
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last updated Dec 02, 2022 01:07PM
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+ Book Pool- Book Discussions
Lucia & Mapp discussion thread.
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 3 posts · 12 views
last updated Nov 10, 2023 11:11AM
The Swiss Summer
By Jackie · 3 posts · 17 views
last updated Oct 05, 2023 06:45AM
Penny Plain
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last updated Jun 26, 2023 07:26AM
Angelique - Marquise of the Angels
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last updated Feb 09, 2023 02:03PM
Purpose of this folder
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last updated Feb 09, 2023 01:35PM
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+ Group Reads
* Group Reads for 2024
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last updated Apr 05, 2024 11:48AM
Northbridge Rectory 5th of July 2025 read Spoiler thread!
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last updated Jul 23, 2025 01:17PM
Northbridge Rectory 5th of July 2025 read No Spoiler
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last updated Jul 20, 2025 05:16PM
Upcoming reads
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last updated Apr 15, 2025 12:34PM
Our Christmas Novel - Murder for Christmas 2024 spoilers thread
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last updated Dec 31, 2024 07:21PM
Our Christmas Novel - Murder for Christmas 2024 non spoilers thread
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last updated Dec 28, 2024 01:28PM
Christmas Short Story Week 2 - How Fear Departed the Long Gallery
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last updated Dec 13, 2024 03:24PM
Christmas Short Story Week 1 - Afterward
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last updated Dec 03, 2024 09:22PM
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+ Buddy reads
A City Of Bells - June 2021 read Spoilers thread!
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last updated Jun 17, 2021 12:49PM
A City Of Bells - June 2021 read No spoilers thread
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last updated Jun 14, 2021 12:18PM
The Castle on the Hill - March/April 2021
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last updated Apr 19, 2021 09:30AM
Bel Lamington November 2020 SPOILERS thread
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last updated Dec 25, 2020 02:19PM
Bel Lamington November 2020 No Spoilers thread
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last updated Nov 12, 2020 06:00AM
My Friend Flicka Chapters 1-19
By Hana , Hana is In Absentia · 15 posts · 15 views
last updated Oct 03, 2020 05:16PM
Thunderhead Chapters 1-17
By Hana , Hana is In Absentia · 16 posts · 11 views
last updated Aug 20, 2020 09:44AM
My Friend Flicka Chapters 20-36
By Hana , Hana is In Absentia · 30 posts · 11 views
last updated Aug 18, 2020 05:49PM
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+ Retro Children & YA Books
* Retro Children's Books
By Elinor · 338 posts · 216 views
last updated May 29, 2024 04:27PM
Swallows and Amazons August 2025 Spoilers thread
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last updated Aug 13, 2025 11:08PM
Swallows and Amazons August 2025 NO Spoilers thread
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last updated Aug 08, 2025 12:26PM
Sister of the Bride Buddy read 20th July 2025
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last updated Jul 19, 2025 06:35PM
YA read - Fifteen July 2021 No spoilers thread
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last updated Jul 19, 2025 05:42PM
A possible children's book read?
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last updated Jun 21, 2025 07:57PM
YA read - Fifteen July 2021 Spoilers thread
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last updated Aug 04, 2021 07:52PM
National Velvet Read Aug 2019 Chapters 10-17
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last updated Aug 27, 2019 04:40PM
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+ M.M. Kaye - Fiction
* Trade Wind Background Information
By Hana , Hana is In Absentia · 31 posts · 59 views
last updated Dec 22, 2014 02:37PM
Death in Kashmir Group Read spoilers thread Apr 25
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last updated Apr 15, 2025 01:17PM
Death in Kashmir Group Read No spoilers thread Apr 25
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last updated Apr 09, 2025 11:58AM
Death in Zanzibar Spoilerland thread
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last updated Sep 24, 2020 05:54PM
Death in Zanzibar Group Read No spoilers thread
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last updated Sep 23, 2020 10:42AM
Trade Wind: Final Thoughts
By Hana , Hana is In Absentia · 29 posts · 53 views
last updated Sep 20, 2020 03:14PM
Trade Wind Chapters 27-31
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last updated Sep 17, 2020 02:34PM
Trade Wind Chapters 21-26
By Hana , Hana is In Absentia · 2 posts · 34 views
last updated Sep 16, 2020 02:51PM
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+ Non Fiction Group Reads
A Chelsea Concerto April 2024 Spoilers thread
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last updated Apr 21, 2024 07:45AM
A Chelsea Concerto April 2024 Non spoiler thread
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last updated Apr 11, 2024 02:54PM
Jan 25th 2021 Group Read A Time to Dance No Time to Weep Part 2 The Cockatoo - Epilogue
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 23 posts · 13 views
last updated Feb 11, 2021 09:42AM
Jan 25th 2021 Group Read A Time to Dance No Time to Weep Part 1 Prologue-Calcutta Dust
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 15 posts · 21 views
last updated Jan 30, 2021 10:17PM
Group Read November 2019.Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird and Bing
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 29 posts · 14 views
last updated Nov 23, 2019 04:11PM
May 2019 Group Read The Sun in the Morning Part 5(Unwillingly to school- Appendix)
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 12 posts · 12 views
last updated Jul 13, 2019 08:50PM
May 2019 Group Read The Sun in the Morning Foreword - Part 2 (The Silver Sails)
By Carol She's S… , She's a mod, yeah, yeah, yeah! · 14 posts · 14 views
last updated Jun 08, 2019 04:24PM
May 2019 Group Read The Sun in the Morning Part 3(Mornings at Seven)- Part Four(Peacocks & Lilies)
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last updated May 29, 2019 03:01PM
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+ Poets' Corner
Purpose of this folder
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last updated Oct 07, 2019 01:16AM
Sidney Keyes
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last updated Oct 07, 2019 01:15AM
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+ Authors' Corner
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+ Archives
This topic has been closed to new comments. Book suggestions and buddy read planning
By Tadiana ✩Nigh… · 1488 posts · 313 views
last updated Jul 09, 2023 07:12PM
This topic has been closed to new comments. Do we want to read another Thirkell? Edit: We do!
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last updated Jun 18, 2023 09:32AM
This topic has been closed to new comments. I received a suspicious message yesterday
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This topic has been closed to new comments. Unexpected error message.
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This topic has been closed to new comments. Do we want to do the Book Pool next year?
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last updated Oct 26, 2022 04:02PM
This topic has been closed to new comments. Book club on telegram
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This topic has been closed to new comments. Suggestion for 2022
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last updated Jan 01, 2022 01:08AM
The Poll is up for our August Read! - we have a winner!
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last updated Jun 16, 2021 08:48PM
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