This went down well. Fiction can reveal truths. Not about Emigration but about a German grappling with the effects of the War and the lost world before it.
Notes from a men's book group in Cheltenham - Beer and books- Erudite and Healthy ( Eruditio et Salubritas) 2002 and still going
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Tuesday, 8 June 2021
Edgar Mittelholzer A Morning at the Office
A pleasure to read .Interesting setting from an early Caribbean writer
Marilynne Robinson --Gilead
An unusual ,and for some , riveting read . Not to all our taste but worth a go
Wednesday, 31 March 2021
Herman Hesse Steppenwolf
Two stout defenders were not enough to convince the rest of the reasons this book is so well known.Interesting ideas , or unreadable strange and very put-downable.?
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
John LeCarre -Agent Running in the Field
"Marmite" was the only thing we agreed . Half rating it highly , half not enjoying it ...Still an early literary response to Brexit and Trump.
Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Anna Burns Milkman
A clear majority verdict in favour . Rather wordy and a bit of editing would have helped the doubters appreciate the humour and language
Tuesday, 15 December 2020
Anne Patchett The Dutch House
A good read but not a great book . To neat a finish and some characters not fleshed out perhaps deliberately so ...a modern fairy tale?
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