Bookwineclub

Bottle of Prosecco in one hand and Ernest Hemingway's Sun Also Rises clutched in the other, I hurled my way down the streets of East London to my fellow bookclubbers abode. Trying not to feel to guilty that I didn't actually read the book but just the cliffnotes (it has been a busy month and I was enjoying my other chick flick way too much too swap - don't frown), I let myself through the door to join the gaggle of girls.

This was my third time at bookwine club as we refer to it - most likely because of the copious amount of bottles that end up being successfully emptied, and I love it! Ok, so I may not be the biggest fan of two of the three books we decide to read but it does help with my literature and intelligence and us London gals always have to take this into consideration...

I was introduced to the group by my amazing American colleague after a chat in the kitchen (where all good conversations happen) pre Christmas. The group is so diverse and I think I am pretty much the only English as the others are mainly from different places in the US (god knows why they relocate to this country - I don't think I will ever understand it! and Germany. 

Basically once a month, one of the group hosts the evening at their house putting on a gorgeous spread relevant to the theme of the booking (sometimes this can be pretty difficult) and everyone brings a bottle or nibbles. To begin with, as everyone slowly joins we stand / sit around getting through glasses of wine or prosseco in my case, as I am not so much a vino fan then indulge in the gorgeous food before finally coming round to the discussion of the book - which actually is fairly hard core and deep!

This month we had Mr Hemingway's novel - which I am sad to say, I never really got round to reading. Bad Jen! Basically I was so caught up in my other chic flick - About A Girl by my new all time favourite author Lindsay Kelk, who wrote the 'I Heart series' with Angela and Jenny Lopez her main characters, who I swear, would be my best friends if they were real, as their lives resemble mine in so many ways. It was actually her and these books that really pushed me to get this writing thing off the ground. So if your a book hermit as well - I really suggest reading these! Anyway, getting back on the subject - I made it through the first 2 chapters before deciding I better download the cliff notes to understand the book and to be fair I will actually read it because it seemed quite interesting! With the main part of the book being set in Spain, our lovely host put on a bit of a fiesta with a tapas spread...Barcelona eat your heart out! Conversations about engagement, jet setting to Paris, living in London and me wanting a US visa took up most of the evening before we sat down for yummy food and Sun Also Rises discussions...

I am suppose to be hosting the next one but I am not sure I can any more - hmmm.

Any way watch this space for the next one...