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Last Orders
Last Orders | Graham Swift
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Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into their collective and individual pasts. Braiding these men's voices, and that of Jack's widow, into a choir of sorrow and resentment, passion and regret, Swift creates a testament to a changing England and to enduring mortality. "Swift has involved us in real, lived lives...Quietly, but with conviction, he seeks to affirm the values of decency, loyalty, love."--New York Review of Books "A beautiful book...a novel that speaks profoundly of human need and tenderness. Even the most cynical will be warmed by it."--San Francisco Chronicle
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DeborahSmall
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#NuYear #MyLastDay Four men gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment of their mission, their errand becomes an extraordinary journey into their collective and individual pasts. A great book and a great movie. Highly recommend ❤️📚

Joanne1 Sounds great. 7y
Cinfhen It does sound great!!!! 7y
BarbaraBB Great choice 7y
TrishB Agreed 👍🏻 7y
LeahBergen I enjoyed this one. 👍🏻 7y
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Cinfhen
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Hahaha 😂😂my #BlackFridayBookHaul was delivered to my daughter 😬😬😬Notice, no profanity today😉I think she‘s finally coming to terms with my book buying 💓🙏🏻

MicheleinPhilly “What am I meant to do with all this?” 😂😂😂😂 7y
LeahBergen She‘s going to move and not let you have her new address. 😂😂 7y
bitterbear 😂😂😂😂😂 my roommate is always fussing at me and I tell him it's better than a drug habit. 7y
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Cinfhen @LeahBergen @bitterbear TRUTH😂😂😂😂 7y
Cinfhen When I told her she needed to wrap them and mail them she wasn‘t too pleased @MicheleinPhilly 😂😂 (edited) 7y
Cinfhen But that conversation was by phone @MicheleinPhilly or else I would have shared!!!! 7y
MicheleinPhilly Well just let me know when you need to start using my place as your storage facility. 7y
Cinfhen Thank you @MicheleinPhilly 😘but I‘m on a serious #BookBuyingBan 🙄 7y
MicheleinPhilly Sure you are. 👌🏼 7y
BarbaraBB @Cinfhen 😂😂 You should write a screenplay about you and your daughter. I think it could be a hilarious tv series 😉 7y
Avanders 😆😆 love everything about this ☺️ 7y
batsy Yes @BarbaraBB I'd watch it 😂❤️ 7y
Cinfhen Thanks @batsy @BarbaraBB @Avanders we keep each other laughing , my daughter & I, which is awesome 💞💞💞 7y
TrishB 💜 asking her to wrap them too!! 7y
Cinfhen I think that might have been her tipping point @TrishB 😆😆😆 7y
Reviewsbylola 🤣🤣🤣🤣 7y
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Today's lucky finds at the train station used book shelf: two Booker prize winners for £1.

KarenUK Nice! 👍 8y
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shawnmooney
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I loved this almost as much as Mothering Sunday. This one is very male-focused, populated by a group of bumbling, inarticulate, hard-drinking Londoners on a road trip to scatter their friend Jack's ashes, each man's grief complicated by tangles of Jack-related secrets. The polyphonic audio version is amazing. It took me a while to get into it, but the intensity gathered and gathered and cracked me wide open.

DeborahSmall Loved this 8y
saresmoore Wonderful review. 8y
ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled Mothering Sunday was my first Graham Swift - may make this one my second! 8y
andrew61 I loved this book although it is a few years since i read it. I've just grabbed mothering Sunday from the library for my book group read but have 'waterlands' sat on a shelf which i understand is supposed to be very good. 8y
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TrishB In a trivial fact of the day - I am wearing ear-rings from Canterbury Cathedral today 😀! 8y
shawnmooney @TrishB I hope they're not giving you attitude like the cathedral proper seemed to in the novel – LOL 8y
TrishB 😂😂😂 I think it's probably to late to worry about that! 8y
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saresmoore ❤️ 8y
Suet624 Yes, indeed we do. 8y
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saresmoore Well, there's an unexpected comparison! And another example of that inarticulate emotion—it's kind of fascinating. 8y
shawnmooney @saresmoore It is indeed! It's the kind of read where I won't have much of a clue how I feel about it until I finish, and perhaps shall need several days afterwards before I do. 8y
saresmoore I like books that make you mull them over. That's what it was like when I was first dating my husband. 😬🙃 8y
shawnmooney @saresmoore I misread that as "when I was dating my first husband"! ? 8y
saresmoore Haha! No, no. One husband is quite enough for me! 8y
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The emotional inarticulateness of men can itself be a powerful articulation.

saresmoore Leaking at both ends—that should be funny, but you're right about the emotion in this passage. That inarticulateness articulated makes for better reading, too, I think. 8y
DeborahSmall Great book 8y
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Just started this on audio. You know how sometimes the narrator's voice just grabs you and won't let go, and you couldn't get distracted if you tried? That's what this is like so far.
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Gulfsidemusing
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It's Fun Photo Friday! Today's topic is books and pets. Here's Winston the guinea pig helping me decide what to read next. @Liberty

Liberty Eeeeeeeeee! ❤️❤️❤️ 8y
Well-ReadNeck OMG! Most photogenic Guinea pig ever?!? 8y
SusanInTiburon We love Guinea pigs! 8y
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bookchickdi I hope Winston picks The After Party. 8y
Gulfsidemusing @Well-ReadNeck @Susanintiburon Winston belongs to my daughter and is the cutest little guy! Never guessed they had such personalities😀 8y
Gulfsidemusing @bookchickdi Winston was mostly noncommittal. I'll sample both tonight😊 8y
AmyWrites Oh my gosh he's adorable! 😍 8y
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