Venue: Cay Tre, Soho
Present: Jen, Nic, Carl, Jane, Gill, Mark
A good turn-out, which would have been better if Shubha didn't still have post-pregnancy brain and hadn't been at home in her jimjams at the appointed time! We shared a selection of delicious, fresh and full flavoured Vietnamese starters and mains between us and demolished a round of cocktails and 5, possibly 6, bottles of white wine and a carafe of red while we decided the following:
- General attendance this year has been dismal; we need to pull our socks up next year.
- Some of us had barely read the book group books this year; more socks needing to be pulled in an upwards direction - you know who you are. I wouldn't shame you here, Mark. Oops.
- Votes on the night (so far as I can decipher) were as follows:
Great Expectations took it by a nose but it was a hard fought contest with votes for Giovanni's Room, Revolutionary Road, The Sheltering Sky and The Tortoise and the Hare too. So many contenders makes 2012 a better book year than 2011!
Blooper of the Year:
Naked took it but there were votes for The Sheltering Sky and The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
Best (nicest) Character:
Joe, Great Expectations
Best (worst) Character:
Ignatious, A Confederacy of Dunces, with votes for Magwitch and for someone (could be practically anyone) from Sheltering Sky!
Most Shocking Moment:
Magwitch in the graveyard with Pip, Great Expectations.
Most Disappointing Book of Promise:
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Best Improver:
Giovanni's Room
Best (most apt) Venue:
The Clarence, Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Best Venue (other)
Aldwych, Great Expectations (for unlimited Prosecco)
Best Members:
Gill and Nic - the "turning up" award
Most Apathetic Member:
Shubha - the "declaring you are back then forgetting to come" award. (Oops and we said we wouldn't shame anyone.)
Honourable Mention:
"Proud to have finished" - Great Expectations and Titus Groan (not a lot of people can say that).
Dishonourable Mention:
"Still the worst book of all time" - Spring Snow.
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