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.

April 28, 2011

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Cafe Levain)

We met at Cafe Levain and dined on fish and steak frites.  Although we spent much of our time talking about politics and foreign policy, the book (Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken) got its fair share of attention, and it received mostly a positive reaction from everybody.  Some thought it went into too much detail in a few areas and that it tended to exaggerate or sensationalize some parts of the story, but most of us were amazed at the story of raw survival against the odds and enjoyed reading the book.  Next time we'll read Carl Becker's Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers.  The meeting is planned for May 31.
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