On The Beach
We had a slightly smaller group to discuss Alice Munro, and I think the consensus was that it’s not always ideal to try and read through a book of short stories one after another,...
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The Love of a Good Woman
We had a great discussion about We Have Always Lived in the Castle, ranging from why didn’t Merricat poison the whole Village, was Constance Merricat’s prisoner, were Constance and Merricat the same person, and...
We have always lived in the Castle
The doodle is back! (Not including vote as we’re still online) we talked about flying tortoises and colonialism in the very excellent Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The book for next time is...
Things fall apart
There were a lot of us online to discuss The Louder I will Sing, which prompted a discussion about really good autobiographies, things we didn’t know about Brixton and one man’s powerful struggle to...
Lanark
This is an additional meeting to discuss our current Long Read – Lanark by Alasdair Gray, which is celebrating it’s 40th year of publication on the 25th of February. It’s a little under 600...