what we read in 2013

Here is a list of what we read last year, I'm not sure if anyone read The Bartender or not so I've left it on the list. I will make the usual voting/score sheets for our next meeting...who will come out on top?

If you can't make it to the meeting but want to vote on your favourites, leave me your ranking (best to worst) in the comments section.

January - A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

February - The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

March - Great Apes by Will Self

April - Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

May - The Bartender: Darkness on the Edge of Town by Axel Matfin

June - The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

July - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

August - ???

September - ???

October -The Dante Club: A Novel by Matthew Pearl

November - The Love of a Good Woman  Alice Munro

December - Complicity Iain Banks

february book

Next month's book will be The Dinner by Herman Koch.
Join us on Tuesday, February 4th for what is sure to be an interesting discussion.
We will also be voting on our favourite reads of 2013, which author will prevail?



An internationally bestselling phenomenon: the darkly suspenseful, highly controversial tale of two families struggling to make the hardest decision of their lives—all over the course of one meal.

It's a summer's evening in Amsterdam, and two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food and over the scrapings of cutlery, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened.
     Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love.
     Skewering everything from parenting values to pretentious menus to political convictions, this novel reveals the dark side of genteel society and asks what each of us would do in the face of unimaginable tragedy.