Recent reads

We've been going since March 2011 and we're still reading away. We haven't quite managed a book a month in recent times, but we're doing alright! Next month we are off to try out the newly opened Kaspas Desserts in Catford, which just looks completely amazing. The book we're reading for that is The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North.

What else have we read since the last post? Well, one I didn't manage (shame on me) was Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler. Ones I did read: Paper Aeroplanes by Dawn O'Porter, enjoyable enough - thoroughly readable, and A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon. That was great, but what is it about irritating 60-something male characters who need a good kick up the backside? Or maybe I'm just an unsympathetic type...

Onwards!

What we've been reading SPOILER ALERT

Since the last update we haven't quite managed a book a month. We read Life After Life, which I enjoyed. Then a nice easy read in Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

This month's book is Kill Your Friends which I've read before, and I can't make the meeting, so I shall share my view here (c&p from my goodreads review...):

One of the most horrendous books I've ever had the misfortune to read. And he doesn't even get his comeuppance in the end, which is about the only thing that could have saved this book for me, though I doubt even that would have done it. Grim grim grim, revelling in the worst kind of racist, sexist awfulness. Someone will no doubt now tell me it's satire and I've missed the point but I don't care! Horrible.

Latest reads

Since my last update, we've read:

The Casual Vacancy
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Lady Chatterley's Lover (I didn't read this, as I'd already re-read it last year for my other book club...)
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

My favourite of those was probabaly Harold Fry, although I did find his character irritatingly wet.

Our latest book is:
Life After Life