We met, last month, at Gail's house to discuss 'Practical Magic' by Alice Hoffman. This was chosen as our Halloween read, I love the film of this book so I had high hopes. Sadly I was disappointed and I wasn't alone. The writing wasn't the greatest, the characters wooden and the story line a tad dull in places. Perhaps the film spoils this, but Gail hadn't seen the film and still hated the book. We didn't have much else to say and were wonderfully distracted by Gail's parkin cake - yum.
Result: 0.5/10 liked this book (and that's only if you're poorly and have nothing else on hand to read)
We chose our next book from the following:
- The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
- This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy
- Room by Emma Donoghue
- The Mitford Girls by Mary S Lovell
Our next meeting will be our Christmas party in a location to be decided on Wednesday 8th December. It will be a pot luck evening which means we each bring a dish of food. We will also be voting on the first Reading Book Club Awards 2010, where we will be deciding on our favourite book we read this year.
