Thank you Nicola for hosting both socially and in leading the discussion last month – I was sorry to miss both book discussions.

This months read is Gilead, to be discussed at Clare’s on 9th October.

Look forward to catching up with you all then – especially Liz!!!!  xXx

Mark Haddon’s, The Red House,  is not due out in paperback until Apr13, so perhaps we will leave that for a while.

J K Rowling’s, The Casual Vacancy, has no date for paperback publication at this time, so again a book for later.

In 1956, toward the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son, a kind of last testament to his remarkable forebears. ‘It is a book of such meditative calm, such spiritual intensity that is seems miraculous that her silence was only for 23 years; such measure of wisdom is the fruit of a lifetime. Robinson’s prose, aligned with the sublime simplicity of the language of the bible, is nothing short of a benediction. You might not share its faith, but it is difficult not to be awed moved and ultimately humbled by the spiritual effulgence that lights up the novel from within.