August 2006

The idea of a picnic in Hyde Park was readily welcomed by most but it would seem August is a particularly busy month. Finding a time suitable for all was impossible.

I am preparing myself mentally by visualising myself reclining in a boat, drifting along, discussing Ishiguro's latest with the ducks on the Serpentine. Different point of view to mine I should think. Should anyone else turn up I'll be overjoyed!

We'll try to choose something extra-specially good for September and hope that everyone has finished their holidays by then.

July 2006

The summer is upon us. Despite the fact I managed the heroic task of reading Dicken's The Old Curiousity Shop in three and a half days I was unable to turn up to discuss it. It would seem others had similar problems and the turnout matched August of last year. A glorious two!

I was given the deciding vote between Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk About Kevin and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. I decided on the latter as Lionel's a boy's name not a girl's.