February Bookgroup - Comments on Breath

Please feel free to add your comments on Breath.

All in all, most people disliked this. The Other Fiona was an exception: she felt it was a get exploration of what it means to be an adolescent and to be floundering in a world where you don't know what you are supposed to do/feel/be. She felt that Sando & Eva took advantage of Pikelet, without consciously knowing they were doing so, as they themselves were adults who hadn't grown up.

Most of us felt, as Robert said, that it was 2 books hastily shoved together, a great book about surfing, and a very hurried peice about auto-eroticism - with bad joins between the 2. We were unanimous in awe of his beautiful writing; as Deb W said, it was like reading poetry in the style and metre of 'Banjo' Patterson.

Dinner was absolutely fantastic, thanks to Jane's friend Julia, whom we expect to be as good a doctor as she is a cook - anyone who can make such tasty food is bound to be a great nurturer! Jane has set the bar very high - take away just won't seem the same!! But it is far easier on the hostess ;-))