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	Supper Club 3.43 avg rating — 13,030 ratings — published 2019 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Odyssey 3.05 avg rating — 3,326 ratings — published 2022 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Selfie as Big as the Ritz 3.48 avg rating — 1,177 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outsiders by Alice Slater (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kirsty Logan (Goodreads Author), Jen Campbell (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best British Short Stories 2017 by Nicholas Royle (Editor), Jay Barnett (Contributor), Peter Bradshaw (Contributor) 3.33 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Test Signal by Nathan Connolly (Editor), Adam Farrer (Goodreads Author), Andrew Michael Hurley 3.67 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Abject: Tales of Modern Unease by Sarah Eyre (Editor), Ra Page (Editor), Alan Beard (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.64 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Extra Teeth - Issue Three by Alice Slater (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Okala Elesia (Contributor), Tice Cin (Contributor) 4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Delia Smith calls it ‘tart’s pasta’. Italian American restaurants call it ‘whore’s pasta’. But Nigella Lawson calls it ‘slut’s spaghetti’, and that’s the one I prefer. Because there’s nothing more terrifying than a woman who eats and fucks with abandon.”
― Lara Williams, Supper Club

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“I thought about what I’d said, about not wanting to be with anyone else, and realized I hadn’t even considered being with anyone else, that it hadn’t occurred to me at all. I wondered if that meant I loved him very much or not enough.”
― Lara Williams, Supper Club

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“When I’d finished talking, she stared into space for a long while. “It reminds me of a joke,” she said. “The one about the wife and the mistress.” “How does it go?” I asked. “Your wife and your mistress are both drowning. Who do you save? Your mistress. Because your wife will never understand. Or your wife. Because your mistress will always understand.” “I don’t get it.” “Exactly,” she replied. “Exactly.” I felt so sad that she didn’t understand. My cool aunt Hetty, of all people. She’d once called us at midnight from San Antonio, announcing, “I think I just got engaged!” Another time she dropped off the radar for weeks, until eventually my mum rang to find out what was going on, and she replied, “Oh, yeah, I just got really into engines. Been dead busy learning about the different kinds of engines.”
― Lara Williams, Supper Club

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What book would you like to read for our March 2025 Group Read? The theme is Food.

The Midnight Feast by Lucy Foley
Mystery, Thriller

16 votes 20.5%

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
Fantasy, Horror

15 votes 19.2%

Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Modern Classics, Science Fiction, Humour

10 votes 12.8%

Arsenic and Adobo by Mia P. Manansala
Cozy Mystery

9 votes 11.5%

Love & Saffron by Kim Fay

Historical Fiction

8 votes 10.3%

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
Historical Fiction

7 votes 9.0%

Butter by Asako Yuzuki
Mystery, Thriller

7 votes 9.0%

The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka
Historical Fiction, Asian Literature

3 votes 3.8%

Supper Club by Lara Williams
Contemporary, Literary Fiction

2 votes 2.6%

My Favorite Kidnapper by Melanie Moreland
Contemporary Romance

1 vote 1.3%

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Lara’s Quotes

“You couldn't pretend you had lost nothing... you had to begin there, not let your blood freeze over. If your heart turned away at this, it would turn away at something greater, then more and more until your heart stayed averted, immobile, your imagination redistributed away from the world and back only toward the bad maps of yourself, the sour pools of your own pulse, your own tiny, mean, and pointless wants.”
― Lorrie Moore

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“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

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