Book Club the Fifth

Book Club the Fifth - BOOKN00B - 18-04-2010
Agreed on: The Island by Victoria Hislop (BookN00b)
Discussed:
- Firman by Sam Savage

SPECIAL GUEST STAR - Lela - who is now 100 pages into The Book Thief!

BOOKN00B

• hated the first chapter, which enraged her, resulting in her casting aside the book for about a month. 
• eventually went back to it, and ended up quite enjoying it!
• particularly liked the relationship between Norman and Jerry. 

BOOKELF

• thought the idea was really clever, and thought the whole environment was very well researched.
• liked the history
• thought the character was a bit up himself, though he was a thinking reading rat, so fair enough really. 

Neither would search out Sam Savage again, but would certainly read something of his at another point in the future.

AVIDREADER

• loved the book references throughout.
• thought the world created was very well described from the perspective of a rat
• found it very sad

 Score

BOOKELF - 6/10

BOOKN00B - 7/10

AVIDREADER - 6.5/10

Agreed that the next book would be The Island by Victoria Hislop, a book that felt was of great interest to BOOKN00B as she had visited the island in question, and seen the featured sanatorium. 

Original LBC

Meeting 10 - The Finkler Question - Howard Jacobson

Meeting 09 - Everything You Know - Zoe Heller

Meeting 08 - A Chat

Meeting 07 - The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga

Meeting 06 - The Island - Victoria Hislop

Meeting 05 - Firman - Sam Savage

Meeting 04 - The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak

Meeting 03 - Daisy Dalrmyple, Jane Austen et al

Meeting 02 - The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

Meeting 01 - Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden