Book Group
Our book group meets about every
eight weeks. We all bring food and have dinner together,
then talk about a book we’ve been reading. It’s not a place
where we read Christian books but a chance for us to read a
book and bring our Christian mind and worldview to it.
After all, if your Christian mind is active you should be able
to wrap it around any bit of our culture – a book, a film, a TV
programme, whatever.
So far we’ve read a novel
set in Edinburgh and one set in Afghanistan, a travel book
about the far east and a memoir of childhood in Africa, so the
books we choose are letting us roam far and wide.
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And, when we read The Lost
World by Arthur Conan Doyle, one of our
readers brought a cake in the shape of the
plateau where the explorers in the book find
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Some of
the books we have
read:
The Lost World
by Conan Doyle
The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall
Smith
A Thousand
Splendid Suns by Khaled
Hosseini
Don't Let's Go
To The Dogs Tonight by Alexandra
Fuller
A Fortune
Teller Told Me by Tiziano Terzani
The Shack by William P
Young Next
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Our next book
is
Arthur and
George
by
Julian
Barnes.
It's a
fictional novel based on
real events. Arthur, Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle,
becomes interested in a
miscarriage of justice
when a solicitor is
convicted for a series of
hate letters and animal
mutilations and decides
to apply the mind that
created Sherlock Holmes
to the
case.
The book lets
us compare and contrast the
lives of Arthur, the young
doctor and dashing sportsman
who becomes a megastar writer,
and George, the meek son of a
Scottish mother and a Parsi
vicar father, who doesn't
really fit in but manages to do
well and become a solicitor.
George and his father are
the targets of hatemail, and
then the animal mutilations
start happening, and George
gets the crime pinned on him by
the police who are increasing
keen to make an arrest and is
sent to jail. Arthur, having
killed off Holmes, applies
himself to the case to get
justice for George and the two
stories start to come
together.
We'll meet to discuss this book on Monday 14th September.
If would like to join us,
please contact Jane
Cooper
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