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Book Club: The Buried Giant, Chapters Sixteen & Seventeen
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The Buried Giant: Gawain's Second Reverie & Chapter Fifteen
The theme of our penultimate selection, I suppose, is that most amnesia is of the voluntary kind.
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The Buried Giant: Chapters 11, 12, & 13
We’ve got a little more Tolkien in our Ishiguro - Axl and Beatrice floating along in their barley baskets can’t help but call to mind Bilbo and the…
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The Buried Giant: Gawain's First Reverie and Chapter 10
Sigh.
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June 2024

The Buried Giant, Chapters 7 & 8
You know how I know this is a proper fantasy story?
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The Buried Giant: Chapter Five & Six
I said at the beginning of this book club that my first read of The Buried Giant felt hampered by my lack of knowledge of medieval British history.
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The Buried Giant: Chapters III and IV
I mentioned last week that some readers find The Buried Giant to be somewhat disarming in how directly it solicits particular readings.
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The Buried Giant: Chapters One & Two
One question about The Buried Giant that a reader mentioned is resolved on the first page: this is indeed a world with magic, real magic understood as…
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July 2023

Beloved: End of Book
Finally, our ghost story has some bad ghost behavior.
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Beloved: Part II, Chapters Two to Six
Had you told me beforehand about the conceit of Part II, Chapters Two, Three, Four, and Five - that Sethe, Denver, and Beloved would take turns…
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Beloved, Last Chapter of Part I, First Chapter of Part II
Last time I said that I was sorry that I had not more intelligently chopped up the reading, leaving us to read the last chapter of Part I and the first…
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June 2023

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