Quercy Readers

September's meeting is to be held at Le Camp Rouge and will be hosted by Diana. The chosen book is the first of the Millenium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson, called "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo".

August's book club was hosted by Diana.

This was July's book, proposed by Margaret.

June's club will be held chez MA on 4th June. We're reading "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer.
The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father?

The next book choice is the book from the blog (film rights, anyone?) "Petite Anglaise" by Catherine Sanderson. It chronicles her life as a young mother working in Paris and her adventures in love. Despite losing her job because of it, it has brought her success on the literary front. May's book club takes place on the 7th at midday chez JB at Belpech.

The next meeting is on Wednesday 9th April chez JTL at midday. Mary Lawson's "The Other Side of the Bridge" is this month's chosen book.
"Like the great 19th-century novelists of provincial life, Mary Lawson is fluent in the desperate intensity of the small, individual dramas of respectable people - and she paints an eloquent picture" said the Sunday Telegraph.

Our next meeting will be a house-warming too - at Mas del Sol at 12pm. We're making a welcome return to South African literature with André Brink's "Before I Forget".

February's meeting will be held chez MS at Le Camp Rouge on Wednesday 13th February at 12. The book is IRD's choice of "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" by Paul Torday.

Dr Alfred Jones is a man whose world is small. Indeed, the publication of his paper "effects of increased water acidity on the caddis fly larva" is the height of his ambition. Not that this is a bad thing, just that concentrating on the micro world hasn't really prepared him for Sheikh Muhammad and his world. For the sheikh has a vision. He sees salmon leaping in the wadis of his homeland, and all the disparate tribes of his country brought together by a love of fly fishing. Casting away the troubles of their lives, so to speak. And the sheikh needs Dr Alfred to turn his vision into reality. The only trouble is that the sheikh's homeland is Yemen - not really known for its northen European climate - so salmon could never survive there, could they?........

January's meeting will be held chez ST in Varen on the 16th at 12pm. The chosen book is the latest translation of Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier. The translation is by Robin Buss and he has called it "The Lost Estate".

There's an interesting site in English and French at www.legrandmeaulnes.com

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 5th December at 12pm chez IRD and Clare's chosen book keeps us in Italy - or more specifically, in Venice. "The City of Falling Angels" is by John Berendt, also author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". This work of literary non-fiction is a portrait of the private Venice and its colourful, intriguing inhabitants.