3 posts tagged “hullabaloo”

How about changing our chat for May (Friday 30th) to Sunday 1st June?  Lets have some input, please.

If anyone esle wants my book after Nicole has finished it, drop me a line.

This is the first time we have chosen a book and then decided to change it, but there has to be a first time for everything!  

 We aren't reading Gilead anymore as many in the group just weren't  enamoured by this book so the book for June is now the book for May. 

There was a choice to be made between Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai OR Absurdistan: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart. I received one vote (apart from Jacques who suggested the book) for Absurdistan and three votes (excluding myself) for Hullabaloo. If the others who haven't voted yet, want to express their preference, please do so, but quickly, before Friday, otherwise the Hullobaloo wins.

With regards to our chat, it was mentioned that because our chat is an "English" chat group, shouldn't we just speak just English.      I emailed everyone in the group and the feedback I got back was this:-

Our group should remain informal

Speaking  French is fine  when stuck for a word, or just towards the end of the evening relaxes the atmosphere, especially after the effort made to speak just English for a couple of hours, after all, we are just there to have fun, sharing books and beers and jokes. 

I'll check my mails to make sure I haven't forgotten anything and update this post accordingly. 

Let me know which one of these two books you would like to read for our last chat in June, before the long summer holidays.

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard

Kiran Desai

Absurdistan

Gary Shteyngart