Books to come

  • Family Romance - John Lanchester
  • The Missing
  • The most important 25 books on science - a choice

Books we have read - quite a variety

  • 12 books that changed the world
  • 26a
  • A Fairly Honourable Defeat
  • A Little History of the World
  • A Perfectly Good Man
  • Air and Angels
  • Americanah
  • As you like it
  • Behind the Scenes at the Museum
  • Beloved
  • Brazzaville Beach
  • Brighton Rock - book and film
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - book and film
  • Chavs - the demonisation of the working class
  • Cider with Rosie
  • Contemplating the Future
  • Desert Island choices
  • Disobedience
  • Dry White Season
  • Esprit d'Corps
  • Excellent Women
  • Fairy stories - Xmas readings
  • Flight Behaviour
  • Going Solo
  • Grapes of Wrath - book and film
  • Great Speeches of the 20th Century
  • Jamaica Inn with film
  • Left Hand of Darkness
  • Moon Tiger
  • Mrs Woolf and her servants
  • Mukiwa - a White boy in Africa
  • Nathaniel's Nutmeg
  • Never let me go
  • One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich plus film
  • Our kind of traitor
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock - book and film
  • Raymond Chandler novels and The Big Sleep film
  • She landed by Moonlight
  • Shipwrecks
  • Slaughterhouse Five
  • Smut
  • Snowdrops
  • Stoner
  • The Bone People
  • The Diaries of Adam and Eve
  • The Finkler Question
  • The Good man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ
  • The Guest Cat
  • The Handmaid's Tale
  • The Music Room
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  • The Reader
  • The Sea Room
  • The Sense of an Ending
  • The Sisters Brothers
  • The man who never was - film
  • The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry
  • Thousand Pieces of Gold plus film
  • Three cups of tea
  • Three men in a boat
  • Toast
  • Under Milkwood - Richard Burton recording
  • We need to talk about Kevin
  • When I lived in Modern Times
  • Wolf Hall
  • Women writers - see Xmas Menus

Tuesday 16 February 2010

Esprit d'Corps

What an hilarious evening we have had at Lynne's home - the Pooh like Capital Letters, the sparse tight writing, the innuendos and the wit of Lawrence Durrell's short stories reduced us to tears of laughter.
Thanks for choosing it.

2 comments:

  1. Thank you all for coming to my house. It was a lovely evening and I was pleased that we all got a good laugh out of the book. I found myself thinking about the short story format and how incredibly difficult it must be to produce such a well-crafted book. There was no let up in the pace and the dry humour. The stories were so easy to read that the author's skill went almost unnoticed. Altogether a jolly read that is worth going back to just to appreciate the author's thorough command of the short story form. I look forward to Chris's choice.

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