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 18 May 2010

Contemplating the Future

In the absence of the host's blog here are a couple of thoughts that were discussed, commented on, debated or mulled over.

The effect of time
The importance of the past to determine the future
The impact of electronic media on book sales and bookclubs
The importance or not of face-to-face interaction
What is a book — is it the whole package or is it the words within?
Death — lots on death though not much on the afterlife

We read peoms by the famous and the not-so-famous. We read from books old and new and some of us just came up with ideas of our own. Ending the night with Death by Chocolate cake we left with much food for thought.

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