Friday 9 December 2022

HOVE BOOK GROUP: End of year review 2022

Another year and another seasonal celebration accompanied by our traditional look back at the previous 12 months


HBG December 2022
















What was rated? What was slated?



Here are the answers...



HOVE BOOK GROUP: End of year review 2022 poll results



1. Favourite read


Olive Kitteridge (2008) by Elizabeth Strout (Tristan) - 12


All That Remains (2019) by Sue Black (Nick) - 8


Mayflies (2020) by Andrew O’Hagan (Hamish) - 6


*


The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) by Joan Didion (Roland) - 4

Riddley Walker (1980) by Russell Hoban (Nigel) - 4

Klara and the Sun (2021) by Kazuo Ishiguro (Roland) - 4


Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad (Nick) - 3


Epitaph For a Spy (1938) by Eric Ambler (Keith) - 1


Cocaine Nights (1996) by JG Ballard (Robin) - 0

Longitude (1995) by Dava Sobell (Robin) - 0



2. Favourite music


Dub Me Crazy (1982) by Mad Professor (Robin) - 12


Living Like a Refugee (2006) by Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars (Keith) - 8


Ghosteen (2019) by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Nick) - 5

50 Song Memoir (2017) by The Magnetic Fields (Tristan) - 5


*


Homecoming (2021) by Du Blonde (Hamish) - 4


Viva Espagna playlist (Robin) - 2

Hymn to Nikkal by Clare O’Connell - from The Isolated Cellist (Roland) - 2

Bad Apples/Ballast (2022) by Objekt (Roland) - 2


The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails (Nick) - 1


Thunder Perfect Mind (1992) by Current 93 (Nigel) - 0



3. Favourite watch


Surge directed by Aneil Maria (Nick) - 9

Apocalypse Now (1979) dir by Francis Ford Copolla (Nigel) - 9


Rocks (2019) directed by Sarah Gavron (Tristan) - 8


Sexy Beast (2000) dir by Jonathan Glazer (Robin) - 5


*


Ex Machina (2014) dir by Alex Garland (Roland) - 4

The Straight Story (1999) dir by David Lynch (Nick) - 4


The Tribe (2021) dir by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy (Hamish) - 1


Limbo (2020) dir by Ben Sharrock (Keith) - 0

October Sky (1999) dir by Joe Johnston (Robin) - 0

Pieces of a Woman (2020) dir by Kornél Mundruczó (Roland) - 0



4. Favourite theme


Mourning Glory (Roland) - 8

Mortality (Nick) - 8


Robots (Roland) - 7


The horror, the horror (Nick) - 5


*


Loss of childhood (Tristan) - 4

Refugees (Keith) - 4


Apocalyptic (Nigel) - 2

Viva Espagna (Robin) - 2


Science (Robin) - 0


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