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As we start Independent People we ought to consider what we want to read next. I'm easy, although I wouldn't mind tackling another from our current Laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa. What do you think?

No nominations for our next group read. I'm tempted to put up a poll including a Hemingway, a Heaney, a Coetzee and a Lessing. Let me know what you think.

Bruce wrote: "Sounds good to me."

Thanks Bruce, I'll give it a go at the week-end unless someone comes up with a better idea.

Can we read Disgrace by Coetzee? I've already got it ;) But I'll go with what the group chooses, provided I can get it in Buenos Aires (which was not the case with Laxness's book, unfortunately)

OK I've put up a poll but the format wasn't quite how I intended. The four books for you to choose between are in alphabetical order of author's surname:

J M Coetzee - Laureate 1999 - Disgrace
Seamus Heaney - Laureate 1995 - Beowulf
Ernest Hemingway - Laureate 1954 - A Farewell to Arms
Doris Lessing - Laureate 2007 - The Golden Notebook

Quite a range here and although the Heaney is a translation it is very highly regarded.

As of Thursday evening British Summer Time, only a third of members have voted on our next group read. It would be nice if at least half the members voted. Poll closes on Sunday.

Disgrace by J M Coetzee it is then. Thanks to all who voted - we start on July 3rd.