August 2011 Imperium surprised us. It tells the colorful history of Marcus Tullius Cicero's rise to political prominence in the last decades of the Roman Republic. There was probably never a time when fame, fortune and power were more intricately interwoven. We've all learned that democracy began in...
Category: Second Circle
Book reviews from the Second Circle book group.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
July 2011 The wonderful thing about reading classics for a book group is that the members can compare their previous reading of the story with a more mature perspective, and those that have never read it can see whether it...
Saturday by Ian McEwan
May 2011 On a Saturday like any Saturday in London February 2003 the neurosurgeon Henry Perowne goes about his business. Anticipating his daughter's arrival from the continent, he buys some fish for dinner; he is delayed by a Peace March,...
Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
April 2011 Our first choice for the new book group was a novel based in Cornwall. The author, born on the Isle of Wight, now lives near Land's End and uses many familiar Cornish settings. Notes from an Exhibition, his...