Hi Kim and other book club members,
Easy to Please is having a final mtg next Wednesday, three weeks before the gathering at the Library. We have also decided to meet again in December to watch the film of our last book, Disgrace, by Coetzee. That movie is relatively recent and I think some of our members have seen it already.
ETP has also canvassed for new members since our numbers fell during the year. One new member started in the winter, and we have two who will start next month. It has taken almost all the year for us to realise that meetings would usually be 5-7 members - for various reasons people can't always be there. That has turned out to be a positive, because like most book clubs, members host meetings on a rotating basis so 10 can be quite cosy!
Looking forward to the end of year gathering to meet other readers. Til then, Happy reading, Ineke.

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Members gathered last night to talk about this novel. We were looking for redeeming features to praise, some relief to our widely held sense of dislike. We discussed the absence of an acceptable moral code to direct the young adults who are the core characters. On the whole, we thought they behaved badly, like selfish, self-indulgent brats and sometimes like animals. Reading was a struggle. The book was hard to get in to, essentially because the characters were so unpleasant. We agreed that The Secret History would have scant hope of making it to our short list of recommended reads. Julie did a marvellous job leading the discussion.

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