The Stepford Wives
We had a good crowd along to discuss Headlong (and pre-emptively celebrate Rachel’s birthday). The reception (to the book not the birthday) was a bit mixed, driven mainly by how much different people were...
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Headlong
We met to discuss The Buddha of Suburbia, a book which *most* of us enjoyed, whilst having some questions about how realistic Karim’s sex life was. It was great to read something set relatively...
The Buddha of Suburbia
Maus went down well, with a lot of discussion about the family dynamics as well as how it describes the Holocaust, and the use of animals to represent different races. Apologies it was a...
Maus
It was another large group to talk about Pride and Prejudice. A lot of people had read it before, or at least seen Mr Darcy get out of a lake, and we had an...
Pride and Prejudice
We had a room packed with Capitalist Roaders, Class Enemies and the Bourgeiosie to kick-off 2022. Possibly some peasants too. Wild Swans is a pretty extraordinary book and really puts people not understanding the...