We had a very good discussion about our last book, Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. I loved the prose, I thought it really made the story very vivid and engaging. Edward felt that the book just seemed to lurch along, that as the author uncovered more documents while putting together her historical fiction, she’d slot that material into the story rather than producing a cohesive storyline. Someone made the comment that the point of the book was to paint all men as arseholes. I thought that the power imbalance that the book portrayed was a way of giving Agnes’s character justification for the actions that she took.
Grant bought along a copy of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and suggested that as the next book. It was accepted with no complaint which was great. See you at the All Nations in March!
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