2005 overview

Dear book clubbers,
Here's an overview of the first year of our book club! Well done everyone!!

Kim - Rudyard Kipling

Unknown internet source (Anjan do you remember where you've got the synopsis from?):
"Kim, a young Irish boy living in Lahore, India, decides to accompany a Tibetan lama on his search for the River that washes all sin. Kim's canny street smarts and gift for disguise protect the gentle lama along the Grand Trunk Road, bustling with the peoples of various races, castes, and creeds who make up India's complex culture and history. Kim's abilities also inspire Mahbub Ali, an Afghani horse-dealer, to ask him to deliver a coded message to the spymaster Colonel Creighton, who taps Kim to help the British in their Great Game against the Russians for control of the northwest territory of India."



The other books put up for voting by Anjan were:
- 'Herzog' by Saul Bellow
- 'Steppenwolf' by Herman Hesse
- 'Portrait of the artist as a young man' by James Joyce
- 'Buddenbrooks' by Thomas Mann
- 'La Peste (The Plague)' by Albert Camus

We're meeting at Anjan's on the 20th of January 2006 to discuss this book!! From 6pm onwards!! With dinner waiting for us!! Anjan is setting up a great standard!!

It was another wonderful meeting, this time at anjan's. The scores were the following: CE: 5.5; AS: 2.5; BH: 7 which gives us a round score of 5, quite average but it is worth pointing out that SM, RB and CP only read a few pages! ZH, KL and LD missed it completely! This one was hard going!! Waiting for your comments!