We are seven handsome and charming* guys who meet at a different restaurant every month or so, having read a book in common, and discuss whatever we want--generally the assigned book, but usually many other timely topics as well. We rotate the responsibility to suggest titles, but the group has the final say. Our book club rules: 1) Anything goes, fiction or nonfiction; 2) paperbacks are preferred; and 3) staying under 300 pages is desirable (N.B., we violate this one all the time). We rate all books and restaurants on a 5-point scale.

* All other adjectives were vetoed.

February 7, 2011

Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck (Blackbird)

The group met at Blackbird restaurant in Minneapolis and discussed John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, which I gathered the group thought had not weathered well  I wasn't there. The next book will be Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne.