Book Club Book for November 2010

Our book club book for November 2010 is chosen by Lesley and is called The Help - by by Kathryn Stockett.

Book Description:
Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren’t trusted not to steal the silver... There’s Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son’s tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they’d be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell... 

The next book club is at Jackie's on Thursday 25th November, 7.30pm for an 8pm start!

Book Club - 20th August 2010

In tonight's book club we discussed Peyton Place by Grace Metalious. There wasn't a lot of discussion since it has been almost two months since some of us read this due to the last book club being cancelled.

In summary, some of us were bored by the book, some of us found it to be light hearted reading and some of us enjoyed it. In its time (the 1950s)  it was a fairly scandalous book as it involved  illicit sex, secret lives, public drunkenness, abortion, incest and murder


We've made a list of books for the book club for the coming months. Here they are:

NOVEMBER -  The Help by Kathryn Stockett (chosen by Lesley)
DECEMBER - A Week in December by Sebastian Faulks (chosen by Ailsa)
JANUARY - Room – by Emma Donahue (suggested by Michelle) 

FUTURE MONTHS:

Ellis Island – by Kate Kerrigan (suggested by Suzanne)
The Abortionist's Daughter  - Elisabeth Hyde (suggested by Louise)
Ravens -  by George Dawes Green (suggested by Jackie)

The History of Love – by Nicole Krauss (suggested by Louise)

Welcome to our Edinburgh Book Club Blog

Hello and welcome to our book club blog!

Here you'll find the ramblings about the books we have read, a few book club questions, a list of books that we plan on reading over the next few months and the arrnagements for the next book club.

There are six of us in the book club - me (Suzanne Thomson), Lesley Trail, Jackie Ness, Louise Small, Michelle Brogan and Ailsa Bruce. We also have an honorary member - Kirsteen Bruce who lives in Montreal but joins us in our little Edinburgh book Club each time she comes over to visit her home town of Edinburgh.