LOVE this, thanks Vanessa!
The fourth Book Club podcast is now live!
You’ve been reading & commenting & now the latest Book Club podcast is live…
Listen to it here.
Heather & Georgina are joined by Waterstones’ Head of Books Bea Carvalho to delve deep into Anthony Doerr’s prize-winning historical novel All The Light We Cannot See, including reader reviews on the SL Community.
Watch it here.
We also announced the next book on the Book Club: Tom Lake by Ann Patchett.
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You have six weeks to read it. Once you’ve finished reading, share your thoughts & reviews with other readers in the new Book Club thread.
If you’ve already read the book, start commenting now!
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Rather late to comment but I wanted to let you know how much I benefited from the podcast for “All the Light We Cannot See”. I thoroughly enjoyed the book even though I initially found it hard to engage with. I have three points from the podcast:
- The suggestions for books from 2023 and the guidance for 2024 all seem excellent recommendations.
- I personally don’t think the podcast made enough of the themes of light and dark running through the entire book and their importance when other senses are absent.
- I too thought the final chapter superfluous until I registered the date 100 years after the start of the First World War (often referred to as when the world went dark) plus it was the year a billion smartphones were shipped (IDC Market Research, BBC News 28 January 2014) thinking of Michel’s virtual war game on a hand-held device.
Now I better get busy reading the next book. Many thanks.
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