We had our first digital meeting this week on Zoom, it was different but worked quite well. The general consensus about the last book, the Heart of the Sea, was that it was a bit dull to start with, but interesting although dark read.
For our next meeting, we're trying something a bit different. To avoid pressure on delivery services during the Corona virus, the pitches were for books our members are planning on reading next month. We asked members to then vote on books they've read/own/planning to read and so our next meeting will discuss a variety of books.
Books will be discussed in order of popularity, with the Night Circus being our main book. To join in with our next meeting, you don't need to have read a particular book and definitely not all of them! If you want to join in with one of the reads below that you don't already have at home, we recommend using Kindle, Audible or Waterstones (approved shop we're supporting as they have given their workers flexibility to not come in + not had their pay reduced).
Books to discuss:
The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
Becoming - Michelle Obama
Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evarosto
Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver
Heartburn - Nora Ephron
Other pitched books : (less than 5 votes)
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
The Changeling - Matt Wesoloeski
Mrs Dalloway - Virgina Woolf
The Hobbit
Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James
The Invisible Man - H.G Wells
Women Who Fight Back - Stacey Dooley
Theodore Boone - John Grisham
