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 January 2011

Sea Room by Adam Nicolson

Lynne chose this book as a result of having heard it reviewed by Mariella Frostrup on Radio 4's Book Club. This book has received some exceedingly positive reviews, see:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2004/may/16/travel.features

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/jun/30/features.review

It is one distinction of this book that there was (for once) unanimous agreement amongst the members of the book club regarding their opinion of it. Everyone agreed that this book was:
  • over long;
  • unnecessarily verbose;
  • of limited interest to anyone other than the author and his family;
  • lacking in narrative structure;
  • poorly edited;
  • self-indulgent;
  • and perhaps most damning of all - boring!
It is heartening how the unanimity of opinion in the group made for a warm, lively, friendly discussion.

Lynne's cheesecake was enjoyed by all.

The laurels for best marmalade are still up for grabs!
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