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Yesterday's weather: dull, miserable but not wet
Last night we had our quarterly book club meeting. This took place at the home of one of the members, it's a beautiful 13th century house - or at least part of it is, and he has made the rest of it look just as old. A beautiful conversion.
Sometimes we visit other people's homes and they are so stunning that we are concerned what they will think when it is our turn to invite them to ours, a modest four roomed (at the moment) farmhouse. But then, we realise that there are only two of us living here, we don't need more room than we have, and we love our home, simple as it is.
We had a very nice dinner and discussed our past and present books. We have recently read Felidae by Akif Pirincci. I don't recommend this book, and neither did any of the group members. It is the strangest book I think I have ever read. The next book was The Pirate Hunter by Richard Zachs. The book is supposed to be the true story of the 'infamous' pirate Captain Kidd but includes much more information about pirates, pirate hunters, and most of all injustice. I struggled with this book finding it a real trial, far too much information and a liberal sprinkling of Zachs' own imagination.
We also made our choices for the next three months which sound like more interesting reads. December's book is the first volume of the actor Alan Alda's autobiography 'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' - now, how is that for a title? I love Alan Alda, so I hope the book doesn't let me down. Then we have On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. I've never read any of his so we are looking forward very much to this one, and the third is 'We Need to Talk About Kevin' by Lionel Shriver, who is apparently a woman , which took me by surprise. The member who chose this book has already read it but doesn't know anyone else who has so hasn't been able to discuss it with them - she said that she wouldn't recommend it to anyone who was thinking about having children but felt that that was pretty safe with our group.
Which will obviously let you know that we are all 'of a certain age'.
We're looking forward to this selection of books. I must get on to Amazon and order them soon.
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3 comments:
I've got ' We need to Talk About Kevin' so don't buy it. I'll give it to you when I see you.
lovely. Thank you.
Oh - and I have On Chesil Beach too. I haven't read that yet though but I'll try and got it done before you come over!
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