Second meeting of bookhouse and at last I manage to blog about it.
At the first meeting we decided to read something translated into English. After a little deliberation we settled on "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch" by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. Strangely enough, most of us including myself actually managed to complete the book and had quite a lot to say about it.
Very differing thoughts, ranging from darkly depressing and disturbing to strangely uplifting and entertaining. All in all the book was greatly enjoyed, achieving one of our highest ever average scores of 8/10.
We agreed on a free for all for the book for this month, The pitches were as follows:
- Tom Holt : Earth Air fire and Custard
- M John Harrison: Light
- Alice Herz-Sommer: A Garden of Eden in Hell
- Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman: Good Omens
- Terry Pratchett: The Colour of Magic
The winning pitch came from Ivan, with Quite Ugly one Morning by Christopher Brookmyre.
The next meeting is set for 30th April when we will chat about this to the strains of some fabulous improvised music.
If you would like to pitch a book to the group for the following month we chose the genre of anything written by a winner of a nobel prize for literature. So a huge selection to choose from.
See you next month!
