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Stan and Charmaine are living in their car, struggling through desperate poverty during a economic collapse. An advert for the positron project offers them a stable job and homes of their own: provided that every second month they swap their home for a prison cell. At first is well, but as they steadily become obsessed with their counterparts who are in their home while they take their turn in prison, their lives begin to unravel faster than the positron experiment itself.
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Our Book for September/October is The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Charmaine sees an advertisement for a project called Positron that promises you a job, a place to live, a bed to sleep in – imagine how appealing that would be if you were working in a dive bar and sleeping in your car. The only catch is that once you’re in there, you can’t get out.
You’ll notice an important change – we’ve switched from a book a month to a book every two months, responding to feedback (including from me) that it was difficult to keep on top of the reading. So the deadline for your feedback is October 31st!
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Our Book of the Month for August is The Three Body Problem by Cixin Lui
Chinese engineer Wang Mao is asked to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a series of unexplained suicides. What he finds is a virtual world world ruled by the relationship of three suns and a conspiracy spanning space and time that threatens to end the human race.
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This month our book is the famous and sadly only collaboration between the exemplorary Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
“Azriphale is a book-loving angel. Crowley is a fast living demon. There’s no way they should be friends. But that’s not the only strange thing going on – a witchfinder destined to love a witch, a hellhound with a strange compulsion to fetch and roll over, and a young boy who might just be about to end the world.
Because the Apocalypse really is due to arrive, next Saturday, just after tea.”
Although you’re welcome to read the book then comment on this post, the book club was started as part of a Habitica party and guild. You don’t need to know what Habitica is, but if you’d like to participate in our main forum, suggest new books for coming months, and vote for next months books then you should check out our Achievement Unlocked forum:
Visit the main forum here.
Apply to join the forums here (obviously, everything is free)
Bookmark the Bookclub forum here.
I’ve started an internet bookclub!
We’ll be reading a book a month and sharing our thoughts.
Although you’re welcome to read the book then comment on this post, the book club was started as part of a Habitica party and guild. You don’t need to know what Habitica is, but if you’d like to participate in our main forum, suggest new books for coming months, and vote for next months books then you should check out our Achievement Unlocked forum:
Visit the main forum here.
Apply to join the forums here (obviously, everything is free)
Bookmark the Bookclub forum here.
I’d love to have more people read with me and talk about books – I hope you’ll join. Details on this months book are below.
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