A lovely meeting yesterday, even managed to catch the last of the summer sitting outside! And at least half had managed to finish The Lacuna's 650ish pages so good going!
A great list of possibles for next meeting and frankly not much between them all... so much so that we actually have two books to read! But don't fear, they are both less than 150 pages each!
The Ballard of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark and The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia both had 100% of the vote. Fairly certain that they'll be enough variation between them - one an Italian detective story and the other, well, set in Peckham Rye!
Other suggestions were:
A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy by John Le Carre
The prince of west end avenue by Alan Isler
We decided on another venue, just to try out the options, so see you all at The King's Head, 100 Clapham Park Road, SW4 7BZ on the 14th September.
We were all very pleased to be sitting outside for the group yesterday, thanks to Charlotte for seeing off the competition for the table! Good discussion about Another part of the wood with varied opinions! Some of us agreed we'd like to read it again to gain full appreciation although others felt the opposite!!
Next meetings choice is The Lacuna by Barbara Kingslover but it was a close vote between them all:
The White Masai by Corinne Hofmann
Watreland by Graham Swift
Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy by John Le Carre
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
The curious incident of the dog in the night by Mark Haddon
We're meeting next on the 24th August at 7.30pm as usual. Sticking with The Stonhouse while there's potential for nice weather but unable to book tables outside so if it's sunny whoever gets there first do your best!
Don't forget about the summer read which is Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, we are still to decide on a meeting date but it will likely be in October sometime.
Until next time...
