August Meeting

Back in the Warwick Arms this month, 6 of us met to discuss 'The Earth Hums in B Flat' by Mari Strachan.  A story about a 13 year-old Welsh village girl set in the 1950's.  A very easy read narrated by Gwennie so sometimes the dialogue was a bit simplistic.  We wondered whether Gwennie was quite 'all there', she seemed very young for a 13 year old and her obsession with flying was a bit odd.  Some of us thought the storyline was slightly contrived and a tad annoying, but others liked the story immensely so a real polarisation of opinion. 

Four of us gave it the thumbs up.

We chose our next book from the following:

• The Road Home by Rose Tremain
• The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We chose 'The Road  Home' by Rose Tremain.  We'll be this for the October meeting.

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 8th September, 7:30pm at Louise's house.  I'll send out directions nearer the time.  This will be our first Wednesday meeting, thanks to everyone who decided to move the day of the meeting to enable me to keep coming as I'll be attending an evening class on Thursdays from September until May.

The book we will choose at Louise's will be read for the November meeting so we decided to have another themed book.  Our theme will be Halloween, please bring a review along this theme, it can be as tenuous as you like.