25 June 2012 Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.

We met at Angela's. Delicious tagine - cooked and served in a tagine.The consensus was that it was moving but probably would have gained something without the special effects.

I think I've got everything up to date now and that it's all in the right order!  Will endeavour to be a better blogger.

Next book....Andrew Miller 'Pure'.

amazon link here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pure-Andrew-Miller/dp/1444724282/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1341183767&sr=8-1

At Vicky's on 25th July.

3rd May A Game of Hide and Seek

Book club at Rosie's.
This was by Elizabeth Taylor (not, not that one).  Most people enjoyed it but felt it was slow to start.  However there's an interesting review of the book on this blog
http://bookssnob.wordpress.com/

and Elizabeth Taylor will be the subject of James Naughtie's Book Club on Sunday 1st July
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k9npg

28th March 2012 Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Most people really liked this book and felt it gave another slant to Dickensian London.  Most people enjoyed the story and really liked the twists and turns.


(I hated this book - I write the blog so I can put my comments and I can't actually remember the discussion in detail  )

7th Feb 2012 Reading Lolita in Tehran

Mixed reaction to this book.  It was quite hard going at times with large tracts of lit crit which I for one felt was a bit showy off. Some of us felt it wouldn't have inspired one to go to uni to read English. It did give some flavour of the life of women in Tehran.

4th Jan 2012 A Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes

First meeting of the new year at my house.

The  book was A Sense of an Ending.  I really liked it.

17 Nov 2011 The Importance of Being Kennedy

Am catching up on 6 months of neglect so can't quite remember all the discussions.

We mostly enjoyed this book, I think?