It was my turn to host this month's bookclub. I decided on quiche and salad for lunch on a sunny saturday afternoon. It was a great turnout with only two bookclubbers missing due to family occasions. We enjoyed a lovely afternoon catching up. The book up for discussion was 'How We Met' by Katy Regan. It was generally thought to be predictable and an average read. K brought some lovely cupcakes from Avoca as we missed Adrienne’s fairy buns. Our miniest bookclubber was in flying form after this particular sugar hit! Lisa also shared her good news with us that another bookclub baby is due in October.
We decided to go with Debs suggestion of reading a classic book and Amers suggested ‘The Great Gatsby’ as the movie remake is due out soon.
The Great Gatsby is a novel by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The story takes place in 1922, during the Roaring Twenties, a time of prosperity in the United States after World War I. All the bright young things go to Jay Gatsby's Long Island parties. Yet Gatsby himself is reserved and mysterious. He seems always to be waiting for something or someone. When he finally draws the beautiful Daisy Buchanan back into his orbit, he sets in motion a series of tragedies. And F. Scott Fitzgerald gives us what many consider to be the greatest American novel - a crystalline portrait of a society captivated by status and ambition, and a man doomed in love.
Taken from: Google Books
Taken from: Google Books
From the uniquely imaginative mind of writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann comes the new big screen adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. In his adaptation, the filmmaker combines his distinctive visual, sonic, and storytelling styles in three dimensions, weaving a Jazz Age cocktail faithful to Fitzgerald's text and relevant to now. Leonardo DiCaprio stars in the title role. Judging from his last movie Moulin Rouge, we are in for a treat. Amers is going to host the next bookclub and perhaps we may even have a bookclub movie outing too.
Happy Reading!
Happy Reading!
