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« Reply #1750 on: May 13, 2020, 07:07:11 PM »
DIY Bedroom Game - Dating Divas
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« Reply #1751 on: May 13, 2020, 07:09:07 PM »
Kitchen Confidential - Anthony Bourdain

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« Reply #1752 on: May 13, 2020, 07:10:43 PM »
The Board Game Book by Owen Duffy
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« Reply #1753 on: May 13, 2020, 07:15:51 PM »
Gerald's Game  - Stephen King

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« Reply #1754 on: May 13, 2020, 08:48:28 PM »
The Diversity of Life - Edward O Wilson
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« Reply #1755 on: May 13, 2020, 09:03:31 PM »
Stems (Spot the Difference: Plants) by Charlotte Guillain 
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« Reply #1756 on: May 14, 2020, 12:06:04 PM »
Witches Abroad - Terry Pratchett.
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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« Reply #1757 on: May 14, 2020, 12:23:08 PM »
The Wizard of Oz - Frank L Baum

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« Reply #1758 on: May 14, 2020, 12:52:18 PM »
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard & Glass - Stephen King
I'm not a fighter, but I could easily beat off 20 men.

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« Reply #1759 on: May 14, 2020, 01:07:44 PM »
The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse

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« Reply #1760 on: May 14, 2020, 01:47:22 PM »
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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« Reply #1761 on: May 14, 2020, 02:09:51 PM »
My Family and Other Animals - Gerald Durrell

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« Reply #1762 on: May 14, 2020, 07:56:15 PM »
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
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« Reply #1763 on: May 14, 2020, 08:05:53 PM »
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Nope, don't see connection

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« Reply #1764 on: May 14, 2020, 09:39:56 PM »
Nope, don't see connection

(Maybe too obscure--the story features two sons of very different families.)
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« Reply #1765 on: May 14, 2020, 09:42:19 PM »
(Maybe too obscure--the story features two sons of very different families.)
Ah!

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« Reply #1766 on: May 14, 2020, 09:45:04 PM »
Silas Marner: George Eliot
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« Reply #1767 on: May 14, 2020, 09:55:41 PM »
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
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« Reply #1768 on: May 14, 2020, 10:24:46 PM »
The Miser - Molière.
I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
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« Reply #1769 on: May 14, 2020, 10:35:21 PM »
It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown - Charles M Schulz

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« Reply #1770 on: May 14, 2020, 11:13:58 PM »
The Velvetine Rabbit - Margery Williams
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« Reply #1771 on: May 15, 2020, 08:18:23 PM »
The Burrow - Franz Kafka
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« Reply #1772 on: May 15, 2020, 08:32:46 PM »
Watership Down - Richard Adams

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« Reply #1773 on: May 15, 2020, 08:53:24 PM »
20,000 leagues under the sea - Jules Verne
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« Reply #1774 on: May 15, 2020, 09:06:33 PM »
Wide Sargasso Sea -- Jean Rhys
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