Reading AS Byatt's Possession in January

Next bookgroup is at Anne's on 27 January...doing A.S. Byatt's Possession

Book group for 2010 votes 1-7

Best books for 2010, how we rated them. Follow this link.

Or see below.

Book group for 2010

Books we read this year on our Bookgroup in 2010:

The Red Highway Nicholas Rothwell
Ordinary Thunderstorms, William Boyd
Wanting, Richard Flanagan
Jasper Jones, Craig Silvey
The Other Side of You, Sally Vickers
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
The Black Englishman, Carolyn Slaughter

Sally Vickers' The Other Side of You

Our next book is Marguerite's choice: Salley Vickers' The Other Side of You. We are meeting on July 29th

There's a review here

Jasper Jones

Jasper Jones by young West Australian author, Craig Silvey, is our book for the June meeting.

Reading Richard Flanagan for April meet

We meet again at Julia's on April 22nd to discuss Richard Flanagan's Wanting. There's quite a bit of info on the Wanting website.

Votes are in for best book we read in 2009

1. White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
2. Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
3. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer

Ordinary Thunderstorms in March

We will be reading William Boyd's Ordinary Thunderstorms at our next meeting on March 11

Books we read in 2009

Over the last year our Group of 97 Book Club read eight books and we are about to vote on our best book for the year. I'll post the top three books when I have collated the votes. It was a varied selection of fiction and non-fiction:

Book group list for 2009

Doing Life: a biography of Elizabeth Jolley Brian Dibble

The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga

The Lost Life, Steven Carroll

Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer

The Dragon’s Blessing, Guy Allenby

The Mitford Sisters, Mary Lovell

The Red Highway, Nicholas Rothwell