February 13, 2012

Book Club

I am in a bookclub simply because it makes me read books.  Otherwise I would remain the pseudo-reader that I became after majoring in English.  I suffered from major burn-out and then, well, life got in the way. We just read Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh and most of us enjoyed it.  There is a great part in the book where the main character, who is Catholic, doesn't speak the language of the local priest so they converse in Latin. Awesome. And, yes, I even understood it! (How? It's a dead language! Phhhttt!)

I think this is the book we need to read next:

Hi.lar.i.ous.