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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

September's Reading group: The Book of Daniel by EL Doctorow

The most popular choice for this month is – shockingly – tough to find, but we can still focus on a great book

The Waterworks was the popular choice for this month’s Reading group commemorating the writer EL Doctorow. It came top by a considerable margin. This is both good and bad news.

It’s good news because The Waterworks is an underrated classic. It’s complicated, fascinating, surprising, unsettling, mesmerising … I could throw “ings” at it all day. I love it more every time I read it and I want to press it into as many hands as I possibly can. In that sense, it’s the ideal choice.

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