The Lessons
I tried to put an image of the cover of ‘The Lessons’ at the top of this, but wasn’t sure if I could do it properly and as Injera is away for a month I didn’t want to risk stuffing it up and her not being here to fix it! But on to the book. … Read more
Campaign Ruby – Jessica Rudd
It’s a little sad – isn’t it? – that the greatest achievement by a Rudd this year is a slender, formulaic piece of chicklit. I came to this book because I’d heard things like “people won’t believe that it was written before the whole Gillard thing”, so I was expecting prescience and political insight. I … Read more
August reading – How to talk to a widower, Jonathan Tropper
Our August reading is underway and we are continuing with the six week reading cycle. That means that our August reading is really August/September, but I didn’t have enough room in the heading for that level of specificity! Discussion will start on the 15th of September. There are a number of links on the web … Read more
July reading – Finding Betty Crocker, Susan Marks
Katya and I were both excited to receive parcels in the mail this week containing our next book, Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America’s First Lady of Food. Book Depository really is amazing! In fact, we’ve both been doing some additional shopping there today. We will start discussion on Betty on the first … Read more
‘Solar’ – Katya’s thoughts
I had very mixed feelings about ‘Solar’. I really enjoyed the actual storyline, however found the descriptions of physics, string theory, solar energy etc pretty trying – is it wrong to say I skim-read some bits? The other problem was that I found Beard to be a really, really unpleasant character. I like a flawed … Read more
May reading – Solar, Ian McEwan
Discussion on Solar will commence a little later than the first of the month, due to some reading backlogs. We’ll get a post up on June 15. I won’t include any sort of a blurb here, in case you are like me and enjoy reading books with as little information about the story as possible. … Read more
Discussion: ‘Black Swan Green’
Given we’re nearly at the begining of May I was thinking about the best way for people to post comments on the book. Perhaps we could do it like this: Injera and / or I might post and people can comment there, and we could also do another post just with the title of the … Read more
So ‘Black Swan’ Is Locked In
I’m hoping I’ll love ‘Black Swan’ as much as I have loved his other writing. I also hope I’ll have most of it read by the begining of May, as ‘Wolf Hall’ is pretty long. My knowledge of Tutor history isn’t what it used to be – I thought that having watched ‘The Tutors’ on … Read more
Our next book
This book group is creaking into life – I’m sure once we get the hang of it we’ll get into a rhythm. Really! We’re generally very organised, deadline oriented people! Our reading project for April is David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green. We will start discussion as close to the first of May as possible! Please … Read more
Molly’s Questions
Thanks for your questions Molly. I know you are an old hand at blogging and you can whip out a pithy, witty post and comment on someone elses at the same time as feeding twins, cooking dinner. lobbying state government and paying the electricity bill, but being a novice I am thrilled that you have … Read more
