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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 2:29

Book Discussion: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo

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I've ever since I finished it, and though I talked about it in a book club already, there is so much more I could cover and chat about in this book, so I hope that you will join me looking forward to hearing your thoughts

Let's discuss this 2019 prize-winning novel! #books #bookclub #novels

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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 0:42

@bowie Madame Cold hearted!!!

Hi, Bowie. How's it going? Oh, wow, girl. Rowan other. Let's just say I came on to say Hello to you, and then I listen to the message, and I'm like, Are you kidding me? Are you seriously rereading sections of this book? My first time around was painful enough. Thank you very much. I tried, but, yeah, enjoy this discussion. I'm going to Bowie out ungratefully because, of course we all know I'm mad
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Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:37
I might pop in to this book club, but I have to at least crack open 100 pages before I say anything intelligent. Excited, though I've heard great things about it
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:48

@bookishpodcast You're not getting out of this that easy 😹

Shanas, that is such a cop out. I think it's only fair for those who discover this conversation. Enjoy it along the journey of their reading lives that they know exactly why you discovered like Girl Woman, others so much. Please share so that we can have a very lively debate as more people join. And yes, I told you this book is like a fine wine. I think it just gets better. The more you let it breathe and it really deserves a slow, lovely consumption experience
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:25

@DBPardes *magical*

Deborah, I am so excited to hear what you think about this book. Whenever you start reading, I could talk about it forever, not to hype it up too much. I'm not saying it's perfect or but definitely a worthwhile book to read and talk about and pretty magical that it just appeared in your life. I think it might be fate
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:38

@DBPardes, @bowie

First off, I'm going to start off with Deborah. Deborah quit while you're ahead. Run now turn around. Don't look back and just take off. Sorry, Bowie. I couldn't help myself. And Bowie, you are absolutely right. If I don't like the book, I have to stand up and say why. Okay. I will tell you that first off, the first three chapters just took me. I don't even know
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Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 1:31

@bookishpodcast Active vs passive reading

So I just wanted to reply to this and say I personally did not have to take notes while reading to this book, and I partially listened to it on audiobook and also read the print copy. And I know some folks have trouble following the various names and stuff, and I get that I do think that can be challenging with books that have a lot of characters, but I don't think that that is specific to this book or anything that the writer does wrong or is ineffective
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