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WhatsApp Book Club
Welcome to the WhatsApp Book Club (formerly known as Twitter Book Club)
(it's like a normal Book Club, but it's on WhatsApp!)
Each month , Book Club meets up on a WhatsApp Group to discuss a new book.
We carry on chatting, usually over a couple of days, before giving the book marks out of ten.
LET ME KNOW IF YOU WANT TO JOIN IN.
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Further down this page you can see the books we've chosen previously, in order of popularity.
Circe still holds the number 1 spot!
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THIS MONTH'S BOOK CLUB CHOICE
Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka - INFO HERE
We'll be discussing this on Tuesday November 2nd
 Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. But this is not his story. Ansel doesn't want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood.
Yet now he awaits the same fate he forced on those girls, years ago. This is the story of the women who survive. As the clock ticks down, three women - a mother, a sister, a detective - reckon with the choices that culminate in tragedy, the impact on those in its wake, and the possibility of redemption.
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We read Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly last month - INFO HERE.
It score 6.5/10. Very respectable. It's now added to the leaderboard at the bottom of this page so you can see what else we've read (and liked).
 HERE ARE THE NEXT FEW BOOKS WE'VE CHOSEN TO READ
Moderation by Elaine Castillo (Tuesday December 1st) - INFO HERE
 Sometimes people just..something Girlie Delmundo works a day job as a content moderator, removing the very worst that makes it on to the internet. She's one of the best at it, too, so it's no surprise when she's given a big salary rise to start moderating its new venture: virtual-reality theme parks, lush simulations of civilizations long since dead.
But as she begins to explore the intricate worlds that she moderates, Girlie notices two deeply troubling things: that there might be something much darker built into the very code of the company, and that William, technically her new boss, a man whose barriers are as mighty as her own, might just be that long-forgotten thing... Girlie's type.
Universality by Natasha Brown (Tuesday January 5th) - INFO HERE
 On an abandoned Yorkshire farm, a group of hippie-anarchists have taken up residence to build a new society. When their leader is brutally bludgeoned with a solid gold bar, an ambitious young journalist sets out to uncover the truth behind the attack. The longread exposé she writes goes viral - but is there more to the story than meets the eye?Universality unravels the messy aftermath of that exposé through the perspective of each of the mystery's key players: a self-pitying banker, a columnist with secrets, a cult leader with dreams, and a fugitive with nothing left to lose.
The follow-up to Natasha Brown's Assembly is a twisty, slippery story of media, class, power and truth. Cutting through the noise, it reveals British society today for what it is.
My Darkest Prayer by S.A. Cosby (Tuesday February 2nd) - INFO HERE
 "I handle the bodies."Whether it's working at his cousin's funeral home or tossing around the local riffraff at his favorite bar, Nathan Waymaker is a man who knows how to handle the bodies. A former marine and sheriff's deputy, Nathan has built a reputation in his small Southern town as a man who can help when all other avenues have been exhausted.
When a beloved local minister is found dead, his parishioners ask Nathan to make sure the death isn't swept under the rug. What starts out as an easy payday soon descends into a maze of mayhem filled with wannabe gangsters, vicious crime lords, porn stars, crooked police officers, and a particularly treacherous preacher and his mysterious wife. Nathan must use all his varied skills and some of his wit to navigate the murky waters of small town corruption even as dark secrets of his own threaten to come to the surface.
 Abandoned by his parents, brought up by his loving, strict and clear-sighted grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But given the time and the place, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy his future, and so Elwood arrives at The Nickel Academy, which claims to provide 'physical, intellectual and moral training' which will equip its inmates to become 'honorable and honest men'.
In reality, the Nickel Academy is a chamber of horrors, where physical, emotional and sexual abuse is rife, where corrupt officials and tradesmen do a brisk trade in supplies intended for the school, and where any boy who resists is likely to disappear 'out back'.
Stunned to find himself in this vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King's ringing assertion, 'Throw us in jail, and we will still love you.' But Elwood's fellow inmate and new friend Turner thinks Elwood is naive and worse; the world is crooked, and the only way to survive is to emulate the cruelty and cynicism of their oppressors. The tension between Elwood's idealism and Turner's skepticism leads to a decision which will have decades-long repercussions.
Based on the history of a real reform school in Florida that operated for one hundred and eleven years and warped and destroyed the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative by a great American novelist whose work is essential to understanding the current reality of the United States.
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BOOK CLUB SCOREBOARD
(HIGHEST SCORE FIRST)
A LIST OF OUR PREVIOUS BOOK CHOICES AND THEIR SCORES OUT OF 10
 Circe by Madeline Miller. 8.4/10
 The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier. 7.8/10
 The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak. 7.7/10
 Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin. 7.5/10
 Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad. 7.4/10
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams. 7.4/10  The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. 7.3/10
 Normal Rules Don't Apply by Kate Atkinson 7.3/10
 The Bee Sting by Paul Murray. 7.25/10
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. 7.1/10  Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. 6.9/10
 The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd. 6.7/10
 My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithewaite. 6.5/10
 The Maiden by Kate Foster. 6.5/10
Kingfisher by Rozie Kelly 6.5/10
 Eurotrash by Christian Kracht 6.5/10
Tracle Walker by Alan Garner. 6.5/10
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald. 6.3/10  Water Shall Refuse Them by Lucie McKnight Hardie 6.3/10
 Portable Door by Tom Holt 6.3/10
I'm a Fan by Sheena Patel. 6/10  Normal People by Sally Rooney. 5.9/10
Keeping the House by Tice Cin. 4.7/10
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