Karen Armstrong's History of Islam was somewhat lacking in personality, we found. So we're fleeing gratefully to the comforting shelter of fiction.From the title, I would have thought Life of Pi would be a popular maths book, but it;s actually a Booker winner, and a "great read" according to Amazon visitors.
One of them warns that "the religious preaching was a little off putting", though, so maybe we haven't quite escaped....
Meeting on 22 May, at James'.
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