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.

March 9, 2017

Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson (Strip Club)

We met at Strip Club, a mostly meat place that's closing in July.  The four of us who could make it were very happy with the food (try the pork chop) and service (we had a literary-savvy waitress).  Our conversation touched on the book, of course, but was mainly directed at non-political topics like travel to Fiji and Palm Springs.  Even Bryson fans thought this book somewhat grumpy.  One of us hated it; most liked it.

The next book is Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, which was selected over a selection of chapters from Gibbons' Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (very tempting).  Don is next in line to suggest the next book.  April 18 is the next meeting.
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