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• Book Club

  Date: 2011.08.06 | Category: books | Response: 0

  I have been in a book club for about a year and a half now. We are a group of around 10 women and we read a book each month which we then get together to discuss. We meet in the evening at our local pub where we can eat a meal, have a few wines and talk about the latest book. I really enjoy it and am always eager to hear other peoples views and experiences of a novel that I may have loved or hated…

  One of the books that raised the most discussion and debate was ‘A thousand Splendid Suns’ by Khaled Hosseini. I really enjoyed the book and loved the style and was drawn into the beautiful yet heartbreaking story. Another one of my favourites which I absolutely enjoyed the most was ‘The Road’ by Cormac Mcarthy. Although others in my group detested it, found it very hard going and bleak. I found it beautiful and it touched my heart. I loved the relationship between the boy and his dad it was a thing of beauty set amongst darkness and futility. We have also read ‘The Book Thief’ by Markus Zusak. This is another book that I really enjoyed and received high praise at our book club meeting.

  So are you in a book club, do you love reading and what book recommendations do you have?