Our last book group meeting went very well with a good discussion of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. While I found the book to be a well written story giving an insight into stolid and grey life in a gulag, it was pretty hard going, others found that there was a lot in it. Tom said he felt it was the best book we’d read all year.
The next book is Jonathan Franzen’s How To Be Alone, a collection of essays and articles which appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. It’s a little bit longer than our normal books at 278pp but we should have a little extra time over the summer break.
There will be an extraordinary book group meeting at The All Nations Hotel on January 7 for those who are available. Normal meetings will resume in the new year at the start of the new term.
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