Happy 2nd Birthday to us! It's been two years since our book group launched and we celebrated this grand occasion with a meal at the Lord Combermere in Audlem. The food was fabulous, the wine flowed, as did the great debate about Room, by Emma Donoghue, last month's book. We mostly enjoyed the book, although Chris felt it appealed more to women, and in particular mums. The consensus agreed with Jackie's point that this was a book of two parts, the second being weaker than the first and seeming to peter out somewhat towards the end, having no real direction. However Sarah said she felt it was a brilliant read from beginning to end and was gripped throughout. All in all, a moving and extremely enjoyable read which presented a unique and difficult story with insight and imagination.
With it being a Bank Holiday weekend (yet again) for our usual get together at the end of the month, we decided to make it the following Sunday (5th June) when we will discuss our current book A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. The suggestions fro future reads are now coming in thick and furious so we have already decided on our next three books - June will be The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas. July will be a John Irving novel (The World according to Garp or A prayer for Owen Moody) and I need reminding of our August read...over to Chris...:)
