July Meeting

This month we discussed 'Smut' by Alan Bennett at my house with lots of biscuits :-)  It was a short book comprising of two stories of seemingly normal surburban lives with quite a lot of smutty business.  The narative really draws you in, not a word was spared, the characters were really well developed and most of us read each story in one sitting which is testament to how easy they were to get involved with.  The every day language and wonderful terms brought the characters alive and we really identified with them.

Result: 9/10

We chose our next book from the BBCs Big Read list, a list of 100 books nominated by the nation.  We went through the list and found several which none of us had read, out of these we chose a few which we liked the sound of:

• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
• The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
• The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher
• Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

We voted for 'A Town Like Alice' by Nevil Shute which we will be reading for the September meeting.

Our next meeting will be at the Warwick Arms on Wednesday 10th August.