It's always a good time when we can hold book club outdoors on a warm evening. So here's a big thanks to Jane for providing the charming setting, good food and wine; and thanks also to mother nature for giving us good weather. Mister Pip was a happy choice - everyone seemed to enjoy reading it.
We chose a book for September: The Inconvenient Indian A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King.
A reminder that our August meeting will be at Lynda's when we'll be reading A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson.
Here she is introducing the book:
Other books mentioned were:
We chose a book for September: The Inconvenient Indian A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King.
A reminder that our August meeting will be at Lynda's when we'll be reading A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson.
Here she is introducing the book:
Other books mentioned were:
- A Beautiful Truth by Colin McAdam
- The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
We also talked about digital privacy. DuckDuckGo is the search engine that allows for anonymous searching on the web. There is more than one service for maintaining anonymity on the web. One of them is Hide-My-IP and c|net has a list of others. All I know about keeping phone records hidden is what the spies do in the novels I've read. They are careful to replace phones, or sim cards daily or even more frequently, which is not exactly practical for most of us.
