December Meeting

This month we celebrated Christmas at Lisa's and all admired her new kitchen - very posh.  We also had nibbles and a lovely goodie bag from Lisa filled with sweeties.  We then got onto the business of discussing 'Major Pettigrew's Last Stand' by Helen Simonson. 

I think we all generally liked this book, I loved the language and imagery used throughout, I could really picture the scenes and we all thought it could be easily turned into a film.  The characters were on the whole quite stereotyped, a bumbling old man, the Asian lady oppressed by her family, a greedy son etc.  The story was lovely, a real feed good tale with a suitablly happy ending although we thought the cliff scene a little over the top but necessary for the gun story line.

Result: 7/10 (again I forgot to take a vote, so I've made this up based on our discussion)

Our next book was on a horror theme, we chose from the following:

• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
• Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews
• Watchers by Dean Coontz
• The Best Short Storied of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
• Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
• House of the Hanged by Mark Mills
• Dracula by Bram Stoker

We chose 'Rosemary's Baby' by Ira Levin which we'll be reading for the February meeting.

Our next meeting will be back at the Warwick Arms on Wednesday 11th January 8pm.