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!