Reading on thin ice at Easter? Ree would love this!

`Reading this will make you feel that you walk on very, very thin ice, and know that chaos is very, very close. Such knowledge has many consequences, one of them is exhilaration.` Niall Griffiths, Observer

WINTER'S BONE - Our Easter Read

Discussing Beloved

Dear Rampire Readers,

it was great to meet up in Easton last Thursday to talk about Beloved....Here are our scores:

Beloved : Rampire Readers Scores 07/04/11


               Char.s     Topic     Style      UPD* (plot)     Best Char.   Worst Char.     FINAL SCORE

Anja          6             8              5         3                  Baby Suggs           Sethe         22

Heather     8             8              6         4                   Paul D                Denver        26

Mira

Monica      4            6             2           1                 Paul D                Beloved       13

Raka         5            4             2            1            Baby Suggs/ Denver Beloved      12

Sara          6             7           5             1                Paul D           School Teacher  19

*UPD = Unputdownableness

Beloved

Toni Morrison : Beloved

Where Angels Fear to Tread : Our Scores

Thank you Raka for hosting such a lovely evening and cooking your delicious chicken curry! After a few attempts to chicken out of Foster, we all definitely chickened in thanks to your culinary skills ;-)))! Mira, you seem to have chickened out of it withouth the benefits of chickening in though...not even Skype could have helped here...

Now this is what we thought of Foster's debut novel...
                      

 Where Angels fear to Tread : Rampire Readers Scores 02/03/10

Rampire Reader	Characters	Topic	Style	UPD* (plot)	Best Character	Worst Character	FINAL SCORE
Anja	5	5	5	4	Lilia	Harriet	19
Heather	8	7	7	Pass	Caroline	Harriet	22
Mira
Monica	8	7	9	4	Caroline	Harriet	28
Raka	9	7	8	5	Carol/Gino	Ha/Mrs H	29
Sara	7	6	8	5	Philip	Mrs H	26

*UPD = Unputdownableness

"Where Angels Fear to Tread" as reviewed in the Guardian on 30 August 1905

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2002/aug/13/fromthearchives.classics

From the review:
"The results of the trick are at once fantastic and inevitable. The whole is a piece of comedy, as comedy is understood by George Meredith. We wonder whether EM Forster could be a little more charitable without losing in force and originality. An experiment might be worth trying."