There were quite strong opinions about The 100 Year Old Man.... possibly an equal balance of lovers and haters! Think it depended whether you enjoyed the knowing tone and leftfield telling of 20th century history or thought it was all a bit Forrest Gump and didn't really work.
Book for next time is:
Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe
It was close with excellent pitches for:
To rise again at a decent hour by Joshua Ferris
The Wrong Boy by Willy Russell
A Grain Of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Light Between Oceans by ML Steadman
The Craft Beer Co is not a great winter pub as not much space inside if it's raining. But The King's Head is open again so let's go there. (confusingly now called King and Co but is definitely open http://thekingandco.uk/) 100 Clapham Park Road, SW4 7BZ. On Wednesday 29th October.
And for next time, we agreed to pitch books that engage with the Gothic with a view to going to this exhibition at the British Library
http://www.bl.uk/whatson/
Most suitable as it'll be nearly Hallowe'en...
Also, there was some Facebook discussion about moving the start time back to 7.30. Have gone for leaving it as 7pm but we won't start talking about the book till at least 7.45pm
