October Meeting

This month we were self-evicted from the Warwick Arms as it was too busy, instead we chose the nearby Copa Bar which was a lot quieter.  We discussed this month's book, 'Alias Grace' by Margaret Atwood.  This almost unanimously loved this book, the almost-true story of a teenage murderer in nineteenth century Canada was gripping and made this book an easy read. 

The characters were very well written and posed some interesting questions.  We definately thought that Grace killed Nancy, we didn't believe her narrative and thought she portrayed herself as more innocent and gentile than she actually was.  Some of us thought that 'Mary' was her true personality and we didn't believe the hypnotism scene.  Atwood has delivered again an all enveloping world, totally different to her other books but excellent all the same.

Result: 8/10

We chose our next book from the following:

• Girl Reading by Katie Ward
• An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray
• Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
• Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
• There But For The by Ali Smith
• A Tiny Bit Marvellous by Dawn French

We chose 'There But For The' by Ali Smith which we will be reading for the December meeting.

Our next meeting will be at Jen's house on Wednesday 9th November.