Book Group met at ‘The Drum’ on Monday 22nd July 2013.
We discussed ‘Oryx and Crake’ by Margaret Atwood. In reading this novel we entered a world of extensive corporate genetic engineering of food, animals and humans. We loved Atwood’s style and her construct of a world that valued numbers over words. The plot takes an eerie turn that leads to a global pandemic.
The novel’s realism shook us readers. We were left questioning the ethics of genetic engineering, diseases, science, literature, friend-ships… there was much to talk about.
There will be no book group during August. Instead we are having our book group outing. On Wednesday 28th August 2013 we are going to St George’s in Bristol to see Margaret Atwood. She will give a talk on her latest book. It is the third in the Oryx and Crake trilogy, ‘MaddAddam’. We will meet again in September and we are going to read the second book in the Atwood trilogy called “The Year of the Flood”.
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