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 24, 2018

Lost Horizon by James Hilton (Bluestem)

Bluestem is kind of a backroom extension of French Meadow restaurant and it proved to be an agreeable choice with a nice menu and generous helpings.  Too bad the place was hopping and the service very slow (not the waiter's fault).  The book was also agreeable to most of us.  A fantasy about an isolated place--Shangri-La-- where people are happy and long-lived and practice moderation in all things, Lost Horizon captures a moment in time between the world wars in which people could only hope that escape from a threatening world was possible.

The next book is Walter Kempowski, All for Nothing, a novel set in the chaos of post-World War II Eastern Europe.  Another book suggested was Jill Conway, Road from Coorain.  We plan to meet on Tuesday, November 27.  Roger will suggest the following book.

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