November Meeting

This month's meeting was at Jen's house, and we'll be having lots more meetings at her house if the snack were anything to go by ...

These are cakey pops, cake mixed with buttercream and coated in chocolate and they are yummy.   The green rectangles on top of the pops on the right are actually books which are really detailed, see more of Jen's work at her website CakeyPigg.

Anyway, back to the books.  We discussed 'The Small Hand' by Susan Hill, a short, spooky book about a ghost child who links to a mysterious past.  The general consensus was that this book was either too short or too long.  For a proper length novel the characters could have been developed more, especially the strange old lady or for a short, short story a lot of the story could have been culled including the unnecessary book buying stuff.  I forgot to get a mark out of 10, so I'm guessing ...

Result: 5/10

We chose our next book from the following:

• Bed by David Whitehouse
• The Best of Everything by Rona Jaffe
• Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
• The Interogative Mood by Padgett Powell
• Bangkok Eight by John Burdett

We chose 'Bed' by David Whitehouse which we will be reading for the January meeting.

Our next meeting will be at Lisa's house (in her new kitchen) on Wed 14th December.

We decided that our next theme will be horror, so please bring some reviews of horror books which we will read for the February meeting.