Hello All
Thanks to the record number (33) of people who came down for Book Club last time. It was a great night. The book however was not so great and scored a disappointing 4.16!
Next Book Club is 11th March, 7.30 at the Crucible Corner. We're reading 'Slaughterhouse Five' by Kurt Vonnegut.
"...Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden."
Big Book
This month is also Big Book, 25th March, 7.30 at the Crucible Corner. We'll be reading the hefty 'The Blind Assassin' by Margaret Atwood.
"Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama."
Book Club trip to Bath
This year's outing is going to be to the lovely Spa town of Bath, loosely related to reading Persuasion in April. I think we're going to go with Saturday May 2nd till the 3rd or 4th. If you fancy going then let us know as we're going to start looking for accommodation and things to do. If you have any suggestions we'd love to hear them.
2015 Book list
March - Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
April - Persuasion by Jane Austen
May - Tainspotting by Irvine Welsh
June - The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger
July - Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Aug - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sept - The Reader by Prof Bernhard Schlink
Oct - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Big Book
This is an extra Book Club that happens every 3 months to allow us extra time to read a bigger book. It is on the 4th Wednesday of the month, 7.30 at the Crucible Corner.
25th March - The Blind Assassin by Margaret Attwood
24th June - American Gods - Neil Gaiman
23rd Sept - The Stand - Stephen King
Happy Reading!
Rachel & Emily