We met in Rosa 12 for our November book club meeting. It was lovely to see Joan back from her adventures in China and hearing all about her amazing experience and achievements.
We welcomed new members Deb and Katie. We started to discuss our book Cider with Rosie. It seemed we had a variety of different copies of the book! Joan had not read the book this time but had read it many years ago and loved it. Having lived in Gloucester she knows the area well. Emma loved the descriptions in the book. Katie had listened to it being read on Radio 4 and said it was a good book to listen to. We talked about there being a TV series which aired a few years ago and some of us had watched it.
The general view was that it was a story but with no plot. It was a book of extracts from Lee's childhood growing up in rural Gloucestershire. Jeanette liked the chapter about his mum. Emma said the ending was poignant.
We decided to give the book a score of 4/5.
We discussed the next meeting being a Christmas gathering and Joan kindly offered to host an evening at hers. This will now be held in The Victoria as numbers were growing! As last year's book swap was a success we decided to carry on this tradition this year. Each member will give a gift of a book which they recommend and these will be swapped at our December gathering.
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