Culture

... is the word of the day today. This roofline window is so very French that I thought it was appropriate. Plus it's one of only two photos I took today, and it's too late to take any more.

My cultural activity today was the book group I joined recently. I'm glad to have found one, but I think the format doesn't work too well. Instead of everyone reading the same book and discussing it, one or two people talk about books they have read. I decided to go for an 80s theme and talked about one of my favourite novels, Jonathan Coe's What a Carve-Up! No-one else seemed to be tempted by my description, but I thoroughly enjoyed re-reading it -- I still think it's brilliant after all these years. And I followed up with Rumours of a Hurricane, which treats the same time period in a very different way. Someone else told us about John Healy's The Grass Arena, which does sound like an interesting if harrowing read.