Book Club - 05.11.14

I have just realised that I have neglected the book club blog this month!! And it was an awesome firework night book club too so shame on me! As iv forgotten most of what we talked about I'll mostly fill this with sparkler photos!

The book we had read was called 'Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore' by Robin Sloane which we talked about whilst munching on garlic bread and quiche over a nice cup of tea.  From what I remember we were all quite surprised by the amount of IT techie info in the book as we were expecting a bit more oldie worldie book store stuff, dusty volumes of mystical texts and secret passageways - well actually it was a combination of both which made for an interesting read! I really enjoyed this book, although the ending was a little disappointing leading us toward what seemed to be an exciting climax which was a little underwhelming but generally an original story.  But the leading lady obsessed with Google needed to get a life and some new t-shirts (enough said).

So once we had stuffed our faces and talked about the book and everything else under the sun, we decided to do the sparklers, I admit I had gotten reluctant due to the cosy front room and chocolate biscuits but Rachael was leaping about in anticipation so I relented.  Then ensued a small disaster of an entire bucket of water (meant for the sparklers) emptying over the floor in the dining room (completely not Neil's fault) the bucket handle snapped off - but eventually we got outside and took some awesome sparklers pics to celebrate one year on.  Some were very smokey but actually those gave the photos a different style which I quite liked! so here's the results - including Neil's artistry of swirls which I keep forgetting to put on Facebook ;)

 

 

 

We were so excited about our sparkler achievements that we forgot to choose a new book!! So over email we decided on 'The Shining' by Stephen King.  I've got to admit I'm not a horror fan in the least but I was drawn to this one - I've already started it and it is mega creepy really looking forward to discussing it with everyone to see what they think!

 

 

'Danny is only 5 years old but in the words of Mr Hallorann he is a 'shiner' aglow with psychic voltage.  When his father becomes the caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny's visions grow out of control.  As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off the hotel seems to develop a life of its own.  Who is the lady in room 217, who are the masked guests going up and down in the elevator and why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive?  Somewhere there is an evil force in the hotel and that too is beginning to shine...'





Next Book club is our Christmas get together!

Please bring a book (gift wrapped) for book secret santa and then we can each pick out one at random to keep - it doesn't matter if the book is brand new, second hand or just one you want to pass on!

Next Meet:
Date: Saturday 13th December
Location: Zizzi South Croydon
Time: 7.30pm