The Story So Far

I have been very lax in updating this blog. We've read three more books since Room, Bad Science and The Year of The Hare. 6 books in total!!

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

The Year of the Hare

We had another good chat about a book this month, a really good choice I think. It's tricky to try and capture these twitter discussions. If you're interested in looking at the detail, you might like to use a good twitter search engine; twitter itself only searches back 10 days...

http://www.searchtastic.com/ does the job, just search for #La1bc

Otherwise, here's a wordle.

Twitter Parade

You need Flash for this, but it's funny...

Wordle Twitter Summary

View this bigger here

#Room

On the 9th November, we will be having a twitter discussion of our first bookclub book.



I thought some people might want to write more in-depth reviews - both of the book & how the twitter thing worked out.

If you would like access to this blog to add your thoughts, let me know and I will sort that for you.