Tuesday Tipplers Book Club - newbies welcome

[JenniferJ]

Yes! I can do it!

[overcaffeinated]

I'll try; I'm already out the Mon and Wed but will make it if I can!

[LadyBird1977]

Good for me!

[sparklehorse]

Also good for me

[JenniferJ]

I can do the 16th too. So sorry for missing the last one. Glad we can discuss Wilt. I didn't get a chance to pick it up in time from Rye Books in time to read for the last meet up.

Jen x

[LadyBird1977]

Hello,

Are we still planning to meet on Tuesday?

Ta, Ashley x

[Red_Cat]

Hi, I'm planning on being there.

Cat x

[feefifofum]

Hello

I'd like to pop along tomorrow, if that's OK?

Are you still looking for new members?

Fiona

[Red_Cat]

Hi Fiona, yes please join us, will be at House of Tippler about 7.45pm, we normally sit either in the window at the front or through the back to the left.

[marlowe]

I'm afraid I can't make tomorrow as we are moving house so I'll be really knackered!I know it's meant to be a private vote but since it was me that did the book list can't really do this. Anyway, my vote is American Psycho. See you next time.

[feefifofum]

Great! Thank you. See you tomorrow

[LadyBird1977]

Hello,

So sorry about this but I can't make it tonight! Boo! I did send my vote to Rhian by PM but I voted 1) Lady Chatterly and 2) satanic verses (sorry for the public announcement).

See you all next time xxx Ashley

[overcaffeinated]

Not sure I'm going to make it either. Am sad to have missed a few months now, really hope I can make next month. I vote (also sorry for public announcement) for lady chatterly and satanic verses.

[JenniferJ]

Sorry. Not going to make it now either. Something has come up. Let us know when next one is and I'll really make an effort.

Jen x

[Red_Cat]

Is anyone planning on coming?

[kennethw]

I'm just leaving now. Will be about 15minutes.

[Red_Cat]

O good see you shortly!

[kennethw]

Hi everyone, we decided on 13 June for our next meeting, and Lady Chatterley's Lover for our next book.

Netflix currently have the version with Richard Madden (Rob Stark off Game of Thrones) as Mellors. #justsaying

Until then

Kenneth

[LadyBird1977]

Thanks and sorry to have missed last night x

[susan_]

I'm 90% through Lady Chatterly and I can't figure out whether I like it or not. Definitely looking forward to discussing it with everyone next Tuesday

:)

[Red_Cat]

I will be there tonight but a bit late as finished work late

[susan_]

I've arrived early to have some food - staked out the front window

[LadyBird1977]

On my way! :) I'll be eating too.

[kennethw]

Poor Lady Chatterley. Nobody seemed to think she caught fire, or was racey enough to merit a ban. I must get you to read some Anais Nin.........

I volunteered to do a list of political fiction for next meeting, which will be 11 July. Meet at 8 at House of Tippler.

Here's the list.

A very British Coup - Chris Mullin (226pp)

Former steel worker Harry Perkins, has, against all the odds, led the Labour Party to a stunning victory at the general election. His manifesto includes the removal of American bases, public control of finance, and the dismantling of the newspaper monopolies. The Establishment is appalled by the prospect, and secretly decides that something must be done. As M15 conspires with the city and the press barons, Perkins the PM finds himself in a no-holds-barred battle for survival.

House of Cards - Michael Dobbs (412pp)

Chief Whip Francis Urquhart has his hand on every secret in politics - and is willing to betray them all to become prime minister.

Mattie Storin is a tenacious young political correspondent. She faces the biggest challenge of her life when she stumbles upon a scandalous web of intrigue and financial corruption at the very highest levels. She is determined to reveal the truth, but she must risk everything to do so?

Head of State - Andrew Marr (385pp)

Two corpses. A country on the edge of a political precipice. A conspiracy so bold it would make Machiavelli wince. Andrew Marr?s debut novel imagines what really might be going on behind the door of 10 Downing Street.

When a young investigative reporter is found dead on the streets of London few people notice. But when another body ? minus its head and hands ? is washed up on the banks of the Thames, its grisly condition arouses a little more interest.

1984 - George Orwell (294 pp)

1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. "1984" is still the great modern classic "negative Utopia" - a startling original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from the first sentence to the last four words. No one can deny this novel's power, its hold on the imagination of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions - a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

Yevgeny Zamyatin - We (224pp)

Yevgeny Zamyatin's We is set in an urban glass city called OneState, regulated by spies and secret police. Citizens of the tyrannical OneState wear identical clothing and are distinguished only by the number assigned to them at birth. The story follows a man called D-503, who dangerously begins to veer from the 'norms' of society after meeting I-330, a woman who defies the rules. D-503 soon finds himself caught up in a secret plan to destroy OneState and liberate the city.

[susan_]

Excellent list! I'm assuming a secret ballot so PMing you my two votes