What Are We Reading In August?

[saundra]

Nick Alexander the photographers wife
On the kindle really good

[Diflower]

Oh I saw that one Saundra, I'll go and have another look

[Gal]

I'm on my third library since my last visit - Red Lily by Nora Roberts.

[TheOstrich]

I don't know if anyone else has read it, but I'm just finishing off "Go Set A Watchman" by Harper Lee.

By turns both humorous and anecdotal, and political and powerful, it's a book that perhaps takes a little bit of getting into because the Deep South Americanisms, but it's a major work of literary fiction, a minor classic, and well worth the effort.

[Kaz]

Ossie, I was all set to get that as soon as it was published, but so many reviews I read said that it detracted somehow from the powerful character Atticus Finch in TKAMB, and almost spoiled their memories of it...... If you say it's worth reading, however, I might buy it

[Ally]

No matter what anyone says I will not be reading Go Set A Watchman.

Pig headed? Me?

[TheOstrich]

Yes, we were well aware of the reviews, Kaz (Mrs O read it before I did, I finished it off this p.m.). But we both read TKAMB over 40 years ago, and TKAMB is a bit of a distant memory, now, so in that respect perhaps difficult to compare.

I think it's better to approach it as a "stand-alone" book, without any preconceptions ..... we both found it quite thought-provoking in its own right. I'd be very interested to see what others make of it.

And if you don't like it, you can always donate it to the City of Birmingham Libraries (which is where our copy is going tomorrow) We got our hardback copy from WHS for £9.49, it was also in Asda at just £9.

Ally - you sound just like Jean Louise Finch, the heroine ....

[Kaz]

I might give it a go then!

[TheOstrich]

..... so we took our copy of "Go Set A Watchman" into our local library this morning. To say they fell prostrate at our feet would be an understatement. The handover was reverential and the counter staff intoned "Oh, Wow!" in chorus. Librarians were summed from the back room to ogle the acquisition. It was almost treated as the biggest event since the discovery of the Staffordshire Hoard.

Mrs O had to disappear behind a rack of shelving in order to dissolve into a fit of the giggles!

Seriously though, it's nice that it was appreciated ..... Mrs O expects tea and bikkits the next time we go in ......

[Kaz]

oh that's hilarious!!!