Reading Lolita in Tehran failed to live up to it's promise really. I think most of us thought it had some interesting parts, but did not add up to a very good whole. But it DID make us want to read some more Nabokov, so the next book is Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov. And because we're not meeting for another month, we also have The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson as a bonus book, so feel free to try and read either or both.
Runners up were:
Wandering Star - JMG Le Clezio
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
The Finkler Question - Howard Jocobsen
So Much for That - Lionel Shriver
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver
She Came to Stay - Simone de Beauvoir
A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
So have a good Christmas and New Year, and see you in 2011!
5 December 2010
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About us
Hello - we're a laid back pub based book group open to anyone in Brixton. There are no criteria or rules about joining
We meet every 3 weeks in Mango Landin on Brixton Water lane from about 7.30ish onwards. Just look out for the people with the books! Find out more about us.
We meet every 3 weeks in Mango Landin on Brixton Water lane from about 7.30ish onwards. Just look out for the people with the books! Find out more about us.
Tags (list of almost everything we've read)
Barbara Kingsolver
(3)
The Poisonwood Bible
(2)
brixton
(2)
A hero of our time
(1)
A visit from the goon squad
(1)
A week in December
(1)
Alberto Barrera Tyszka
(1)
An awfully big adventure
(1)
Andrew Miller
(1)
Andrey Kurkov
(1)
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
(1)
Ben Okri
(1)
Beryl Bainbridge
(1)
Billy Liar
(1)
Booker prize
(1)
Charles Dickens
(1)
Chinua Achebe
(1)
Craig Taylor
(1)
David Mitchell
(1)
Delhi
(1)
East of Acre Lane
(1)
Francis Spufford
(1)
Freedom
(1)
GK chesterton
(1)
Grimms Fairy Tales
(1)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories
(1)
Iain Banks
(1)
Imogen Robertson
(1)
Instruments of Darkness
(1)
Invitation to a Beheading
(1)
Jayne Joso
(1)
Jennifer Egan
(1)
John Ronson
(1)
Jonathan Franzen
(1)
Kazuo Ishiguro
(1)
Keith Waterhouse
(1)
Khushwant Singh
(1)
Kishwar Desai
(1)
Lionel Shriver
(1)
Margaret Atwood
(1)
Muriel Barbery
(1)
Neil Gaiman
(1)
Nevil Shute
(1)
Oliver Twist
(1)
On The Beach
(1)
One Million Tiny Plays About Britain
(1)
Oryx and Crake
(1)
Our Tragic Universe
(1)
Patricia Highsmith
(1)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
(1)
Pure
(1)
RNIB
(1)
Red Plenty
(1)
So Much for That
(1)
Soothing music for stray cats
(1)
Talented Mr Ripley
(1)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
(1)
The Famished Road
(1)
The Graveyard Book
(1)
The Lacuna
(1)
The Psychopath Test
(1)
The Sickness
(1)
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
(1)
Transition
(1)
Vile bodies
(1)
Vladimir Nabokov
(1)
Watchmen
(1)
When We Were Orphans
(1)
Witness the Night
(1)
alex wheatle
(1)
alone in berlin
(1)
apples
(1)
book group
(1)
books
(1)
charity
(1)
christmas
(1)
death and the penguin
(1)
farenheit451
(1)
free event
(1)
fundraising
(1)
heart shaped box
(1)
herzog
(1)
hotel new hampshire
(1)
infidel
(1)
john irving
(1)
lolita
(1)
meet the author
(1)
membership
(1)
neverwhere
(1)
offers
(1)
persepolis
(1)
raybradbury
(1)
reluctant fundamentalist
(1)
revolutionary road
(1)
richard millward
(1)
shutter island
(1)
stella duffy
(1)
the age of reason
(1)
the brief wondrous life of oscar wao
(1)
the end of Mr Y
(1)
the history of love
(1)
the jungle book
(1)
the man in the high castle
(1)
the man who was thursday
(1)
the room of lost things
(1)
the third policeman
(1)
the wasp factory
(1)
things fall apart
(1)
uprising
(1)
