As
I’ve said before I’m part of three book clubs. Two as a regular member
and one that I run. Running this book club doesn’t take too much
effort’ just some reminder
emails really. It’s at work and the book discussion is only a small
part of the night – the larger parts being wine, potato skins and
gossip. It was established when a group of us all worked together and
enjoyed reading but we have now all moved to separate
parts of the company we work in so it’s good to get the chance to get
together and have a catch up. Sometimes the numbers are small – the
least we’ve had show up is 3 and sometimes everyone comes – 10 for the
max! We meet approximately every 6 weeks and though
the book discussions can sometimes be fairly limited, if the other chat
takes over, the numbers do seem to deteriorate if the book hasn’t
enthralled anyone/everyone so it is the choice of the book that is
paramount to getting people to show up! The worst turn
outs we have had have definitely been for the books that no one was
really interested in such as Lance Armstrongs autobiography. We discuss
at each meeting what the next choice will be – everyone can offer
suggestions and then we just go with the consensus
but I’ve found that the best choices are when a book is:
· Highly publicised – in the charts or various
media book clubs like the channel 5, Richard and Judy, Waterstones etc
· Cheap – so everyone can get a copy again
helped by point 1 as these are usually on special offer
Tonight’s
book club was Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn which is massive at the moment
and definitely grabbed everyone tonight – 9 came in total so was one of
our best
turn outs in forever! Everyone had read the book (again another
miracle) and everyone had something to say. I personally really enjoyed
this book – I love unreliable narrators and the two main characters in
this book were SOOOO unreliable. This book definitely
kept everyone intrigued till the end. Unfortunately it’s the ending
that let the book down for me and for others at the group – the final
few pages just weren’t feasible to me (but I won’t give anything
away!). I would give this book 4/5 and am definitely
going to read for of Gillian Flynn’s books. Everyone else seemed to
agree with 4/5 too! Finally, just a few pics of what we get up to at
book club.
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