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New year – new beginnings

It’s time I started blogging again. I think I have been putting off blogging for so long as there are so many books now that have been missed out. I’m just going to have to face it I am never going to blog all the books that have been read since the last time I blogged. This is a shame as I liked having a proper record of the book club and what we had read. 

Amongst others, we have reviewed the following in my time in non cyber space;

A Christmas Mystery Jostein Gaarder – Our annual Christmas book. I hated it. It was so very boring. Lots of people loved it however and imagined reading it to their children/grandchildren. It was interesting to read about the geography but I wanted maps!!!

Northanger Abbey Jane Austin – I loved it, loved it, loved it but this book totally split opinion. We wanted to review one of her less popular books but we really ended up falling in to 2 definite camps between love and hate.

House of Silk Anthony Horowitz – A new Sherlock Holmes mystery – I found it very boring and bland but some people liked that about it as said it was true to the originals

Thread Victoria Hislop – First time we have revisited one of our previous authors. The history parts about the War were really interesting as I didn’t know much about it but I just didn’t get the love story side of it

Gold Chris Cleave – We read this in time for the Olympics. Liked learning more about cycling. Can't remember too much about this book other than starwars, childhood cancer and messed up woman. Its not as bizarre as that sounds though.
 
50 Shades of Grey – E L James –  interesting to review that’s for sure! Especially when your mum is now a member of the book club. So pleased I was not the one to suggest this book. Very repetitive with unimaginative story line yet still read all 3.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – expecting it to deliver more. Started off as possibly being about racism and ageism then dissolved into a rose tinted view of the world. Think it could have been a lot more meatier however I look back on this book fondly.  

Anyway book club is still going strong we have swollen in size to about 12 people which really is amazing. We have stopped putting our signs up as don’t want to get so big that people don’t feel like they can talk or hear one another, especially across a sometimes busy pub. Two babies have been born (both girls, one to me) and several grandchildren, Santa visited the book club, the number of kindles in our group rose sharply (boo) and we braved rain, rain and a very icy car park once or twice in the pursuit of book reviewing.

See that wasn't so hard was it. Happy New Year.  

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