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Book Club

Our friendly Book Club meets on the third Tuesday of the month in the Library at 3.30pm. We welcome anyone who enjoys reading and likes
talking about books. We don't do 'lit crit' but we discuss why we like/didn't like the book choice. We exchange tips on recent reads that we think others might enjoy, and then wander on to a wide range of subjects. You don't have to buy the books – we take turns to choose a book from a Cambridgeshire Libraries multi-copy list. If you are interested in joining us, send a request to Sally via info@haddenhamlibrarycambs.co.uk or give your contact details to a Library Volunteer.

 

Upcoming read:

Next month's read ‘In a Blink of an Eye’ by Jo Callaghan will be discussed on Tuesday 18th November. All ages and genders are welcome, and anyone born after 1980 would be greatly appreciated for their new perspectives! As always, we can provide a copy of the book, so no need to buy one.

 

To join us, speak to a Library volunteer, or drop a line to info@haddenhamlibrarycambs.co.uk.

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

 

This is, as one member labelled it, 'A beast of a book'. Running at around a thousand five hundred pages it was (and I think still holds the title) the longest book ever written in the English language. Given the amount of verbiage and excessive descriptive padding it was obviously a title that Vikram was tipping his cap towards.


That said; those who read the book (not many of us) thought it was beautifully written and funny and actually an easy read once you got into it. A Suitable Boy is set in a newly post-independence, post-partition India and follows four families during 18 months, and centres on Mrs. Rupa Mehra's efforts to arrange the marriage of her younger daughter, Lata, to a "suitable boy" one of our readers likened it to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice but written for an Anglo-Indian audience.


Some of our members took one look at it and opted for the tv series, which is on iplayer at the moment and that got better reviews round the
group than the book did. As ever, dicussion blossomed covering religion, travel, Andy Warhohl and the dalai lama. We actually give A Suitable Boy (the book) 4 thumbs up out of 12 and are looking forward to reading the much thinner The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore next month.