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@bookfrolic.bsky.social Hi Stephanie. Books and frollicking are a great combination. A warm welcome to our Devon Book Club community 🙂

I think so and I'm pretty sure you also have mine

@allauthor.bsky.social hi and a warm welcome to our Devon Book Club community. Your account looks so interesting- lots of books to discover 🙂

Congratulations Michael. If you or Boldwood would like me to do a feature on my platforms do let me know.

I'll certainly read that. It sounds like an interesting book Studied Camus for French A Level at school and it stayed with me.

Aren't they just. Lovely to connect with you 🙂

I've never read it for some unknown reason. Better add to my list!

Hi Trina. Never too late. Always happy to have follow up posts. I hadn't heard of The Meurseault Investigation. I'll check that out 🙂

I didn't know that #devonbookhour

Coming to the end of our hour - a very lively one this evening so thanks to everyone, as always, for your friendship and company. If you've any ideas for topics to discuss in future weeks do share them #devonbookhour

#devonbookhour possibly at times , but the harsh reality of rural poverty is very well detailed e.g in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.

Interesting life. Love the ref to Verlaine - I bought a copy of his poetry from Shakespeare and Co bookshop in Paris a few years ago. Was hte shooting in a duel? #devonbookhour

I've also had a lot of fun this last week catching up with lots of the wonderful writers we've featured here over the years - watch this space for updates and, writers, if I've not been in touch, please don't be shy - DM me #devonbookhour

I remember now - but each to their own 😊. I'm a big fan of his satire and admire the political impact he made as a result #devonbookhour

I get that but do you think his books sometimes gave a somewhat romantic view of rural poverty? #devonbookhour

😂 you not a Dickens fan then? #devonbookhour

Don't think you'd be disappointed, though it is also of its time stylistically #devonbookhour

Such a great writer - The Moonstone is reckoned to be (possibly) the first detective story I think, and The Woman In White is a spooky, gothic kind of book #devonbookhour

Sounds profound for an 18 year old to write - remarkable in itself #devonbookhour

3 great boosk - what makes them stand out for you? #devonbookhour

Oh! Was Gormenghast the 1940s? I hadn't realised - I am a huge fan (obvs also love Orwell and The Diary of Anne Frank) - and The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse - an incredible work, though very much a marmite book I think #devonbookhour

Miller I've read (and saw the play once - was wonderful) but I know nothing about Rimbaud. The title may give it away but can you say any more about it? #devonbookhour

I get that - Was that Wilkie Collins from that decade? I've not read that one but loved his other novels like The Woman In White #devonbookhour

Oh but there are so many wonderful books - Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Black Beauty, Middlemarch, Anna Karenina , Return of The Native - do none of those appeal to you? #devonbookhour

I hadn't realised that books like Black Beauty were as old as the 1870s - but delighted to see Anna Karenina toppoing many charts from that decade - one of my all-time favourites #devonbookhour

We're live with this week's #devonbookhour - what's your book news this week and any favourites from our random decades of the 1870s and 1940s, with a reminder of a few books from that time

The picture was just a few tearsers - I'd love you to come and share your thoughts on Bulmer Lytton and anyone else of interest - we'll be live in 5! #devonbokhour

Hope you can join us from 8PM this evening

Well spotted 🙂

A reminder that from 8PM, on tomorrow's #devonbookhour , as well as catching up on your book news we'll be continuing our random decades conversation - looking at favourite books from 1870s and 1940s - here are a few to wet your appetite