What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe is the most loved read of our first round!!

What a lovely evening we had! Many thanks indeed Anja for hosting it and cooking such lovely lasagne for us all...Raka and Heather's puddings were lush and we even had some pink bubbly wine to celebrate thanks to Sara and her new job: congratulations!!!!.

Well, well, well...We have a winner for our first round and that is Anja's choice "What a Carve Up!", novel that we discussed and analised with great passion last night. Sara's choice "The Year of the Flood" was very much appreciated too and came close second ...

So here are our final scores:


Rampire Readers Round One


Characters/60 Topic/60 Style/60 Plot/60 Final Score /240 * - average score 28

Cutting for Stone 39 46 40 43 168/240  - 28

Midnight’s Children 40 46 36 24 146/240 - 24.3

Angel and Demons 19 31 18 29 97/240  - 16.6

The Year of the Flood 47 51 44 47 189/240 - 31.5

The Jane Austen Book Club* 29 25 26 24 104/200 -  20.8

What a Carve Up * 46 48 46 45 187/200 - 37.4

*Mira’s scores are missing -so it is /50 for each category and /200 for global score

Look forward to our second round that starts with a classic: "Where Angels Fear to Tread" by Foster, Raka's choice.

recent interview with Jonathan Coe

I found this really interesting!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/29/life-writing-jonathan-coe

Rampire Readers defy weather adversities and..READ ON!

Jane Austen Book Club: our scores!

Thank you RRs for attending our January meeting, despite the stormy weather!

We shared and enjoyed a lively and insightful discussion also thanks to Raka's notes that were read out during the evening. So here are our scores:

            Characters       Topic      Style     Plot     Best Ch.   Worst Ch.   Final Score

Anya       7                     5            6          6        Greig             Sylvia           24

Heather   8                     4            5           4        Jocelyn        Prudie           21

Mira

Monica    3                    4              5          4       Allegra           G's Dad      17

Raka        5                    6              5          5      Grigg               Jocelyn       21

Sara         6                    6              5          5      Bernadette       Mo             22


Look forward to our next discussion on "What a carve up!"...
    

The Jane Austen Book Club - FILM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatP2-_NH2A

THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD : Our Scores 01/12/10

After another great RR evening, thanks to Sara this time, here are our scores for The Year of the Flood. Looking forward to carrying on reading and sharing lively discussions fuelled by delicious food and drinks in the New Year...


         Characters Topic Style Plot Best Character Worst Character FINAL SCORE

Anja     8                10       9      8       Toby            Crake                 35

Heather  7                8       5      6        Pilar             Lucerne              26

Mira       8               8       9       9       Toby           Jimmy                  34

Monica  7               8       6       8       Toby            Blanco                28

Raka     9               8       8       8        Zeb             Jimmy                 33

Sara      8               9       7       8        Toby           Blanco                3