• Great speeches
  • Moon Tiger
  • Smut

Bookclub titles

  • As you like it
  • Our kind of traitor
  • The Finkler Question
  • Jamaica Inn with film
  • 12 books that changed the world
  • Three men in a boat
  • Never let me go
  • Beloved
  • The man who never was - film
  • Going Solo
  • The Music Room
  • The Sea Room
  • Behind the Scenes at the Museum
  • Excellent Women
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock - book and film
  • Mrs Woolf and her servants
  • Grapes of Wrath - book and film
  • Slaughterhouse Five
  • A Little History of the World
  • 26a
  • Left Hand of Darkness
  • Nathaniel's Nutmeg
  • Toast
  • Wolf Hall
  • Contemplating the Future
  • Esprit d'Corps
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - book and film
  • When I lived in Modern Times
  • Brighton Rock - book and film

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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