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.

June 15, 2009

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton (Tanpopo Noodle Shop)

After ignoring St. Paul for six months, we ended up at Tanpopo Noodle House, a Japanese home-style restaurant in Lowertown that got a repectable if not wonderful review from our group. We read G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday which got a decidedly mixed review. Some thought it a remarkable tour de force of conservative/Christian thought while others thought it just boring and dated but mercifully brief. Not widely read today, Chesterton has his followers and was once considered a peer of Shaw. Next time we will read James Jones' From Here to Eternity. Other books considered included La Rochefoucould's Maxims and Spencer Wells' The Journey of Man. Next meeting is July 27. Phil suggests the next tome.
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