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  1. gns

    Wrapping up the Book Club, 2021

    Thanks for all your work on this. It was a good boost during what wasn't the easiest year. I certainly read some books that I wouldn't otherwise have looked at! Happy 2022 and Buen Camino!
  2. gns

    Book Club 3.3 - The Roland Medals by Maureen Cashman.

    I bought this some time ago and was put off by the start, so I put it to one side as I had other priorities. This weekend I had two long train journeys and decided to give it another go. I finished it although there were some uninteresting parts I skimmed over. The book is nicely written but as...
  3. gns

    Book Club 3.2, Fiction - Atlas of Places that Could or Should have Existed on the Camino de Santiago

    I enjoyed this one although after a week it is already fading from memory. The starting premise is interesting and some of the individual places are well done. It wasn't clear which ones were made up except for one or two instances where the description of something supposedly from early Iberia...
  4. gns

    Book Club 3.1, Fiction - Merchant's List

    I finished this a while a go and would be interested in another one.
  5. gns

    Forum Book Club - 2.3: The Man with the Camino Tattoo (Dermot Breen)

    And now for the Norte This is another Camino which I haven't walked (yet?) so I was interested in how Mr Breen would present it. He was walking to fundraise for cancer research and to try and find some sort of closure over grieving for his late wife. To avoid spoilers I will just say that this...
  6. gns

    Forum Book Club - 2.3: The Man with the Camino Tattoo (Dermot Breen)

    Probably guilty as charged. I start out wanting to like these people but sometimes it is hard. I have a recurring daydream. A group of pilgrims are alone in an isolated albergue on a stormy night. There is an American priest, a passionate Basque, a fussy nun, an Australian actress and now a...
  7. gns

    Forum Book Club - 2.2: Northbound (Paul McGranaghan)

    I finished this last week after struggling to get to the end asking myself why I am I reading this? First of all the good. It is generally well written and from Porto he provides a perfectly acceptable Camino narrative but with some caveats (see below). Secondly the bad. He desperately seems...
  8. gns

    Forum book club - Planning and book selection for Round 2

    I think that makes sense. From my own perspective my employment situation is changing (for the better) so I will have less time. It also means the cheap plane ticket to Madrid in September will go to waste alas!
  9. gns

    Forum Book Club - 2.1: Sinning Across Spain (Ailsa Piper)

    I finished this a couple of days ago and have been mulling over my response to it. The underlaying substrate of any Camino memoir is the land and places the author traverses. This is competently enough done for the most part, but with quite a strong hint of guidebook at times. On the other...
  10. gns

    Forum Book Club - 2.1: Sinning Across Spain (Ailsa Piper)

    I have just started this as it only arrived on Friday. I disliked the previous one (Walk in a Relaxed Manner) quite intensely at times but it clearly clicked with a lot of other people. Someone gave up their time to make the selection in good faith as far as I am concerned, and I can not so...
  11. gns

    Forum Book Club - 2.1: Sinning Across Spain (Ailsa Piper)

    I chose to buy it as an actual book and am still waiting for it to arrive. I will stick to Kindle in future!
  12. gns

    Forum book club - Planning and book selection for Round 2

    Maybe the two books should be sold as a job lot.
  13. gns

    Forum book club - Planning and book selection for Round 2

    What no nuns!
  14. gns

    Forum Book Club - 1.3 - Walk in a Relaxed Manner (Joyce Rupp)

    I wonder what she would have made of the French Group on the Primitivo when I did it, who carried a large bag of grass and were happily stoned by the way whenever I saw them during the day.
  15. gns

    Forum Book Club - 1.3 - Walk in a Relaxed Manner (Joyce Rupp)

    Ok nausea was maybe a bit strong and the misspelling was certainly not intentional as the book was in front of me as I typed. I must admit there was something about this book which rubbed me the wrong way in a manner that I can rarely recall. It is not the fact that the author is religious. I...
  16. gns

    Forum Book Club - 1.3 - Walk in a Relaxed Manner (Joyce Rupp)

    After reading this I picked it up again to try and see what I was missing, since other people clearly take a lot from this book. I am afraid that it did no good. I read a few random sections with growing nausea and resentment. When I got to the line "The disappointments of the Camino showed up...
  17. gns

    Forum book club - Planning and book selection for Round 2

    I would like to put in a word for Roads to Santiago by Cees Nooteboom. I think this might make a nice pairing with Journey to Portugal by Jose Saramago. Whilst it is not a Camino book it is an insightful account of the country and its history.
  18. gns

    Forum book club - Planning and book selection for Round 2

    I think branching out but unfortunately I think the latter two categories may be harder to find or expensive (the cheapest copy of the Ashley/Deegan book I can find is £180). Maybe a memoir from another route would be a possibility in the next round. Here is one suggestion...
  19. gns

    Forum Book Club - 1.4 - The Great Westward Walk (Antxon González Gabarain)

    After the first one when I realised thanks to the comments that I had done a bit too much amateur psychoanalysis on Father Codd and I have tried to avoid that on the subsequent ones (although it would have been fun to go all in on Sister Jupp). My sense in the first part though was that he was...
  20. gns

    Forum Book Club - 1.4 - The Great Westward Walk (Antxon González Gabarain)

    I read it on Kindle so it is available in that format. It is hard to believe that books describing the same experience could be so different. I will say up front that I found this a much more rewarding read than the previous two memoirs we have read. Our prior knowledge of the author's fate...

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