Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Summer reading

At the first meeting of the year (11-Feb-2013), there was plenty to talk about - holidays, traffic, family updates, and the weather.  But to top it off, everyone had a chance to discuss the books that they had read (and could remember!)  Here is a brief summary (please forgive any misrepresentations).

Denise
  • Heart of Coal - Jenny Pattrick (Sequel to Dennison Rose)
  • Elephant Keepers Children - Peter Hoeg
  • Standing in another man's grave (Rebus is Back) - Ian Rankin 
Jan
  • Week in December and A possible life - Sebastian Faulks
  • Flight behaviour - Barbara Kingsolver (Highly recommended)
  • Capital - John Lanchester (highly recommended)
Marlene
  • A casual vacancy - JK Rowling (not very inspiring)
  • Novel by Ernst McIver (didn't tell us what it was called)
  • Two Brothers - Ben Elton - is still reading it and enjoying it
Jackie
  • Sophie's key (Sarah's key by Tatiana de Rosnay??)
  • Mr Pip - Lloyd Jones
  • People of the Book - Geraldine Brook
  • Broken - Isla Evans (highly recommended)
Shirley
  • A story of a Chinese family living between England and China
Freda
  • Searching For Wild Asparagus In Umbria - Terry H. Bhola
  • A book by Terry Hatch
  • a book about boating on the canals
Yvonne
  • Ender's Game / Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card (highly recommended)
  • Thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hossein
  • Water for elephants - Sara Grue
  • Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Caroline  (in absentia, read by Yvonne)
  • Digging to America - Ann Tyler
  • Second Person Singular - Sayed Kashua
  • Captain Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
  • The red house - Mark Haddon (Mark has a great website according to Jan.  See http://www.markhaddon.com )
Diana (mentioned by Denise)
  • All that I am - Anna Funder  (also wrote Staziland)

There were a lot of pages turned in our group!

Thursday, 7 February 2013

2013 - First meeting of the year


Hope you have had an amazing summer, enjoying the sunshine and reading all sorts of interesting books. 

Bring them along on Monday to share, if you are able to. 

Yes, the first book group meeting is this coming Monday 11 Feb at 7:30 pm.  

Jan has agreed to let us meet at her home.  Hope you can come along.