Book club at Pippi's house, Monday 20th February 2012
Mr Rosenblum's List by Natasha Solomons
So, here it is, the blog for our book club. I'm looking forward to seeing which names people use for themselves and how the blog will organise itself. I'm hoping it'll be an organic process that will change as we all get used to it, please don't feel there is any kind of etiquette or rule book, this is a new thing that will be shaped by the people who contribute.
What do you all think of trying to remember all the books we've read over the last eight years? I have a reasonably comprehensive list that I will endeavour to post (although I have been promising to do this for at least four years now so don't hold your breath...) and comments, memories etc. would be welcome.
Thanks for all coming tonight, it was a busy one and much fun. Sorry if you're all a bit garlicky tomorrow...
An excellent night Gemma! Thank you! X
ReplyDeleteHey its great trying to work out who the aliases belong to. Is 50wordsforsnow (which I first though was 50 words for now, as in they were intending to be brief) Liz, if not who is it???
ReplyDeleteMy alaias is from the first books I can remember reading.
Hi! I did it. Feeling quite impressed with myself for getting this far.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone else struggle with finding a decent female character from a book?
Not many strong contenders!! Holly is a bit flaky but I still love her!
Oh and yeah, I read the book. If by 'reading' you mean the first third closely and the rest by skimming... I didn't like it. That's not entirely accurate. I liked the appendix when the author mentioned her family history much more than the novel which struck me as being largely one dimensional. Although a few of the others mentioned the wife's relationship with her lost mother through her recipes and the chat we had about that was inspiring. On the back of that I'd highly recommend Like Water For Chocolate By Laura Esquivel or even Toast by Nigel Slater which is incredibly touching (and quick to read).
ReplyDeleteOh. I missed the bit about being a female book character. But it's the title of a Kate Bush album, does that count? Arse.
ReplyDeleteNo, I'm not Liz. It is me. Lou. Noob.
ReplyDeleteShocker, I was certain sure that Lyra was Lou!! Who is Lyra then? I also confused the 50wordsforsnow name for a Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow reference - that was more ice wasn't it? Irene Addled, like it - that is you now Lou, yes? You don't have to be a female book character, like I say, no rules, book club anarchy.
ReplyDeleteHolly, is that you Rach? george, no idea, Jenny?
Yey, You guessed right on Holly! Well done! You clearly know me well!
DeleteYeh, you don't need to be a female book character, clearly I made that up! As pippi says, do what you want!! :-)
Oh yeah, the book. I kind of liked some of the ideas and thought there was potential in the themes but overall I couldn't enjoy it because I thought it was badly written and badly edited. It also had a very beautiful front cover so my cynical side was suspicious that the publisher's marketing department had done more for this book than anyone else. Sorry to be so negative! I agree with Irene though, the recipes were a nice touch, I just wanted to eat them all.
ReplyDeleteYep, Irene Addled is me. I'm going through a bit of a Benedictine Cumberband crush so might as well be his main squeeze. Tragic.
ReplyDeleteNo no, totally with you on that one.
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