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.

August 20, 2007

Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Peninsula)

Our gathering at Peninsula Restaurant (serving Malaysian cuisine) was attended by only four of us, but the food was top notch and the conversation fun. We pretty much agreed that Toole's Confederacy of Dunces was a very good comic novel that made perfect summer reading. The next book is Michael Perry's Population 485. Other works considered: Viktor Frankel, Man's Search for Meaning; Noel Perrin, First Person Rural; and Marilynne Robinson, Gilead. Don is on deck. Our meeting is scheduled for September 17.
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