January Meeting

After some misunderstandings we missed the usual meeting and moved it to a week later.  We met last week to discuss 'Room' by Emma Donoghue, an eerie story told from the point of view of a 5 year-old boy who was born and raised in one room with his mother.  The book started off well, hinting at the truth so the reader isn't quite sure what is going on.  Why are they in the room?  Why does a man come in with groceries?  The sheer creativity of the mother to entertain her son was amazing, it teaches the modern world something about the imagination of children and how they don't need five million different toys, video games and TVs.  Towards the end of the book, the way the author makes sense of the world through a young child's eyes becomes a bit forced and it all seems a bit rushed.  But all in all a very thought provoking story.


We gave this 7/10.

We chose our next book from the following:

• The Hand That First Held Mine - Maggie O'Farrell
• Ours Are The Streets - Sunjeev Sahota
• The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood

We voted for 'The Year of the Flood' by Margaret Atwood which we'll read for the March meeting.

Our next meeting will be at Lisa's on Wednesday 9th February.