Away from Home

Last night was our first meeting in a public place in a while (since the book club became known as "The Book Club", instead of"The Indigo Book Club", where we met in the book store). I think it went well! We met at The Victory Cafe, in Mirvish Village. What a great place. I enjoyed the food, and the service was good (even though the bartender kept saying, "Very good...").

All in all, we thought the book was fair. I liked it the most out of the four of us, I think. Then probably Maria (who choose the book). Then it's probably a tie between Julia and Gab, who both liked the language used in the book and the way the author wrote it (first person, told directly to the reader with lots of personal pronouns- I's and you's and us's), but didn't really think the premise of the story was all that interesting. Gab kept waiting for some kind of rebellion by the characters. I'd have to agree, the book did lack emotion and a serious climax. I said maybe the author's intention was to keep things fairly sterile, since it is a book about clones, and one of the themes was the question of morality in scientific progress and the spirituality (if any) of a cloned human.

Other themes included the value of friendship, the teenager's struggle to be accepted by their peers, and the importance of art and creativity in a child's development.

We discussed the book almost the entire time (which is rare for us), besides the odd Star Wars debate and of course, talk of my brithday! LOL... Julia had printed out some discussion questions from bookclubs.ca, and we used those as a guide.

I think this was my favourite book club meeting in a while... besides the one I planned at my house, that is! It's the new guy's turn to pick a book this month, so I'm not sure what we're reading next. Hopefully something good! I have no doubts, since he also works at Indigo!