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Greetings, Manor hors, and welcome to another edition of the Peckerwood Book Club, a place where we can giggle, gab and exchange suggestions about the books we've been reading, which ones we've enjoyed, and which ones we'd very much like to set aflame or use for target practice. Hopefully it's not too much of the later! Meanwhile, have you ever picked up a book, read a few chapters and thought, "Meh," then tossed it aside, picked it up later and found it compelling? This has happened to me a few times, once with Kazuo Ishiguro's " Never Let Me Go ," which made me shrug and think, "So what? Who cares?" after the first two or three chapters. I tried again several months later and found it riveting. And, no, I have no explanation for this, other than maybe I wasn't in the mood for it the first time around, or maybe I didn't think there would be anything more to the story once I understood the premise, which at first seemed like a p...