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.

October 19, 2010

Tinkers by Paul Harding (Haute Dish)

Dinner was at a well-regarded new restaurant, Haute Dish, which turned out to have some tasty dishes but whose overall rating was embarassingly low because of slow/bad service. They put us in a relatively quiet back alcove, and then kind of abandoned us for most of the next 2 1/2 hours. Our book discussion was outstripped by talk about travel, politics, and other topics. For some reason, despite its general poopularity Tinkers offered fewer interesting discussion points than many of our previous selections. For next time, we are reading The Big Short by Michael Lewis, an analysis of the financial crisis. The only other book suggested was John McPhee's Survival of the Bark Canoe. Bill suggests the next book.
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