Thanks all for Monday’s bookgroup, and welcome to our new members. It was an excellent discussion: betrayal is clearly a topic we all have views on, not to mention Scandinavian thrillers, thrillers in general, and what makes us lose our grip on a novel. I liked the idea that we are very forgiving of McGuffins if we believe the characters and their situation – otherwise holes appear like those in my not very good knitting. I wonder if one night we should ask the knitting group to join us? But that would make it even more difficult for Simon as the token man at bookgroup.
It’s a serious question: why don’t many men come to bookgroups? Or if they do, they tend to join men only ones, treating it like a garden shed type arrangement with no girls allowed. I am certainly going to try to encourage a few more chaps to come along on Monday nights, and maybe you would all do the same?
But really, whatever happens – I love our Monday evenings, thoroughly enjoy our discussions and everybody’s company. Next book is Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad – you can find some interesting definitions of Goon Squad here.
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