We have read and discussed:
- Last Rituals - Yrsa Sigurdardotti
- Anagrams - Lorrie Moore
- Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Turnout can vary - I recall very lively discussions of Anagrams & quieter but still very insightful discussion on the Jeanette Winterson book. I think we need to think about how we capture the discussions so we can look back on them - twitter has a habit of archiving things. If anyone is willing to summarise the discussions in the form of a review, let me know...
Rather than selecting a book using democratic means, I decided to speed things up a bit before Christmas by using a random name generator to pick one person to select a book for us to read. I like how that worked out, so we're going to do that again for the next 4 choices. That will mean that all active members will have picked a book by May/ June and we can all go back into the hat again. You never know, we may even have some new members!
I did mention that for discussion of the next book, we would have an In Real Life discussion. There's a nice, relatively large cafe in town full of sofas, books and amazing cake. If there is interest, I will ask them what they can do to host a little gathering (or maybe we could just #flashmobbookgroup?)
So...when the pickers have picked, I will let you know. Until then...check out this really lovely stop motion animation of a bookshop
