Showing posts with label BotM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BotM. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Book of the Month: Infernal (June 2017)

June 2017

Infernal (Mark De Jager)

(I’m not sure if it is part of a series)


The good part about finding that first Book of the Month was that I also found the second Book of the Month at the same time. I was scrolling through my wife’s Borrowbox app and noticed where a reviewer had described this book as more John Wick than John Wick. I’m not even sure what that means but as it turns out, understanding isn’t a prerequisite for excitement! Best of all I got the impression that if there was fucking then it was incidental to the story and after the first book, that was a relief.
We meet to grade June’s Book of the Month on its level of John Wickness at the German Club in late June.
As an aside, my wife has joined a rival Book Club and attended their first meeting recently. Firstly, it was fishy this one started in the same month as mine and secondly, how can you have a Book Club meeting somewhere that doesn’t serve alcohol? It makes no sense.
I assume they were all stoned.


Tuesday, May 23, 2017

Book of the Month: Romulus (May 2017)

May 2017 - Refresh me on this whole Book Club thing


Romulus (Marilyn Campbell)

The Innerworld Affairs Series, Book 1


I’m not sure what I find more unsettling, the fact that Borrowbox on my wife’s tablet collectively groups romantic fiction under the SciFi & Fantasy genre or that the cover art on this selection may demonstrate a subconscious yearning on my part for chiselled men who may or may not be aliens. It wasn’t clear. In any case, I had been scrolling through the list for some time and ran out of patience, so this is the Book of the Month for May.

This isn’t going to be representative of future books but does illustrate the randomness of these type of decisions. You may hate it or you may love it, but to refresh on the point of all this: that is point of all this. Next meeting will be Sunday 28 May, so curl up, get in some ‘me time’ and start reading.