by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
and Sir Terry Pratchett
The club demonstrated mixed feelings about Guards, Guards. There was broader discussion around types of humour and its tremendous subjectivity. This resulted in a range of scores ranginf from 4-5 with one outlier at 7.
There was broader consensus on Purple Hibiscus -everyone liked it – with some discussion around the circumstances of Biafra and the Nigerian civil War. Questions about the fundamental character of the father and contradictions in his use of the newspaper for liberal agitation paid off for people all around. Also questions on whether the author felt guilty herself for having deserted her country to live in the US. The average rating was 7-8
The book for this month is non-fiction related to the film and book The Summit.
The Time Has Come – Ger McDonnell: His Life and His Death on K2 written by Damien O’Brien his brother-in-law. It is available in Kindle http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&field-keywords=The%20Time%20Has%20Come%20-%20Ger%20McDonnell%3A
See interesting comments in the Journal.ie – http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/column-%E2%80%98i-had-to-squash-the-rumours-about-ger%E2%80%99s-death-on-k2%E2%80%B2-405661-Apr2012/