Back again at The All Nations this month and it’s starting to feel a bit more like the new normal after so many months in lockdown. It was a good turnout and it was great being able to sit outside in the beer garden.
Our book was Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky one of his first works. Noone seemed to care for it as a book much. Every now and then it would find its stride and the prose and dialogue would be engaging, a lot of the rest of the time it was just lots of words on the page that I felt I had to wade through. Interestingly, Richard listened to the audiobook and felt that the author was really into the story and made it very good to listen to. I had wondered whether maybe something had been lost in translation.
We then reverted to form and spent an enormous amount of time discussing which book to read next. There was a lot of talk about reading another of Dostoevsky’s books, The Brothers Karamazov, which are apparently much better but they all fall well outside the length limit. We eventually decided to go back to recent topic and decided on Toni Morrison’s Beloved. I’m looking forward to it, she’s a Nobel prizewinner no less!
See you at The All Nations on Feb 3, 2021!
