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Saturday 11th February

How A Book Club Changed My Life

Posted at 7:05AM Monday 08 Mar 2010

In some respects a book club sounds counterintuitive. Reading is a solitary pursuit, an opportunity to shut out the world of work or the drone of the television. For years I would, after devouring a great novel, feel low upon finishing it. It was worse than the end of a holiday. I had been part of a whole new world, a separate society, an individual's trials and tribulations, murder and redemption or love and hate and then, with the turn of a final page, it was gone.

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