FIRST MEETING

A very successful first meeting with enough recommendations to keep us reading for quite some time. Non-fiction seems to be high on the list with the odd "chick flick" thrown in to ease the stress levels before reading another deep and meaninful biography.

The Stig Larsen trilogy was discussed with equally divided opinions. Many helpful suggestions were put forward by our guest from America, Ann, a librarian who has belonged to Book Groups in the past. One interesting suggestion was to pick an author of the month and ladies could choose which book to read. This of course would solve the problem of all of us reserving the same book at Tweed.

For the time being everyone seems happy to meet at 2 pm on the first Saturday of the month .... the next meeting will be held at Judy's, the book will be A.B. Facey's "A Fortunate Life" ... hope you all enjoy it.

Some recommendations:

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake, The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, House Rules - Jodi Picouolt, My sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult, Three Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools - Greg Mortenson and House of Spirits - Isable Allende. All recommended by Ann.

Beautiful Malice - Rebecca James (recommended highly by Margaret).

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon, The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (Judy and Lyn liked this too) and A Certain Music - Celeste Watters ..... all Diane's recommendations.

A Cork on the Waves, Halina Robinson, The Good Women of China - Zin Ran, Falling Leaves - ?, Little Daughter - Zoya Phan (available at some of the discount stores) and The Floating Brothel .... these were Linda's recommendations.

Picking Cotton (a true story of wrong identifcation and conviction) by Thompson and Cotton .... Lyn's recommendation.

and The Book Thief by Colleen.

There were many other books discussed by by brain was suffering from Literary overload by then.

Judy