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franciscawrites, to bookstodon
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Join in to know me because getting to know people by the books they hold close to their heart is great,

The Tombs of Atuan - Le Guin
Frankenstein - Shelley
Hunger Games - Collins
Last Unicorn - Beagle
The House of Spirits - Allende
The Handmaid's Tale - Atwood
The Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin
Annihilation - VanderMeer
Three Times Lucky - Turnage
Good Omens - Pratchett Gaiman
Jane Eyre - Brontë
Pet Sematary - King
Howl's Moving Castle - Wynne Jones

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blueorangeblue,
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@franciscawrites @bookstodon

Gormenghast - Mervyn Peake
The bone clocks - David Mitchell
Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson
Wolf hall - Hillary Mantel
The windup bird chronicle - Haruki Murakami
The peripheral - William Gibson
Darkmans - Nicola Barker
The city and the city - China Mieville
Accelerando - Charles Stross
An instance of the Fingerpost - Iain Pears
Gideon the ninth - Tamsin Muir
The sad tale of the brothers grossbart - Jesse Bullington
Between two fires - Christopher Buehlman

All of these were Wow! books when I finished reading them.

blueorangeblue,
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@wendypalmer @franciscawrites @bookstodon I used the same criteria.

Jonathan Strange ... and The Goneaway World almost made my list, I would like to read both books for the first time again.

blueorangeblue,
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@kimlockhartga @franciscawrites @bookstodon David Mitchell is a fantastic writer. Commenting do I can look up others on your list.

Deglassco, to blackmastodon
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On July 15, 1944, in Bristol England, the "Park Street Riot" occurred as 400 Black soldiers confronted 120 MPs over pub access. Observers later recounted that locals rooted for the Black troops. Like the Battle of Bamber Bridge a year earlier, this event underscored the racism Black troops faced as well as the disconnect between how they were treated overseas vs in their own country.

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blueorangeblue,
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@Deglassco @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

Thanks for the thread.

As a side note, there has been recent acknowledgement of Bristol's historic role in the slave trade with the overdue remaining of a local concert hall and the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Edward_Colston

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blueorangeblue,
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@RuthFlaherty @edutooters no, but a practical solution would be for the vampire policeman to have a non-vampiric partner who could enter the property and, with legal authority, invite his vampire colleague to enter

blueorangeblue,
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@RuthFlaherty @edutooters my thinking. The vampire cannot enter a 'home' without invitation. But his colleague is entitled, by the warrant, to be inside, and can therefore extend the invitation.

Perhaps if the vampire felt differently about that they may find themselves blocked. How frustrating!

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