Yann Martel and Tehran

Our next book will be Yan Martel's new book Beatrice and Virgil.

We will meet in July.

Discussions of a meeting in June for those of us staying back is under planning.

Reading Lolita in Tehran

We have decided that our next read will be "Reading Lolita in Tehran". I have ordered the books, and they have arrived. Ready for pickup now!

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Yesterday we met and discussed the book with the very long name - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. The book was written by Mary Ann Shaffer, who died before the book was completed, so her niece Annie Barrows completed it.

I think it's fair to say that all of us loved the book. It was an easy read, humoristic, but with a depth and a sense of the characters that was fascinating. It takes place just after the WW2 is finished, and is written in letter format.

I won't go into detail about what the book is about - since this page is mainly for our own use. What I want to take down here is what ideas it sparked within the group.

These are some of the other books that this book somehow reminded us of.

• Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
• 84 Charing cross road by Helen Hanff
  

Book lovers of Kodai

I though I'd set this blog up to record the books we are reading in our Book club. Just for fun, or for the use of others.

These are the books that we have read so far:

• Pather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay
• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  
• The elephant vanishes by Haruki Murukami
  
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Guernsey Literary Potato Peel pie society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows