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Hello and 'Happy New Year' fellow book chatters,

Thanks once again to Natalie for providing me with the much needed and anticipated copy of 'The 10pm Question' via her friend :-) Received Tuesday, started Wednesday...couldn't put it down...work smerk (boss not around - whip the book out)....finished it midday Friday. Absolutely, thoroughly enjoyed it and wanted to start reading it again. Anyways, I've got a couple of questions to add to the mix:-

1) Do you think Frankie's bird sketches in particular were his sub-concious minds way of attempting to combat the crippling 'coping mechanism' of persistant list reciting? The birds giving flight to his constant worries for a while, till night time and the inescapable 'rodent voice'.

2) Did you get the feeling from Frankie that he in some way felt some guilt for his mum's condition? Even though we don't find out what caused the B/D's, it appears that if he did feel guilt it would have been unfounded.

I read a couple of good books over Christmas: 'A Tree Grow's In Brooklyn' by Betty Smith and 'Elegance' by Kathleen Tessaro. Quite different from eachother in many ways but still had that 'finding one's true self' sort of element to them. Good books none the less in case anyone's looking for something different to read :-)

Can't wait to chat about our fantastic January book...see you ladies tomorrow,

Megan