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Have joined an extra bookgroup called The London Gay Reading Group. We will be meeting at Halfway to Heaven this weekend. This month we were reading - Parrallel Lies by Stella Duffy. With any luck Ms Duffy should be at the meeting which should make it interesting. The book is quite clever - a satire on Hollywood and its celebrity culture. Like all satires it simplifies and exaggerates to achieve its purpose and its all rather heartless. There is a big problem with satire - I can see it has an importance but the real world is always grey rather than black and white. Life and people are infinitely complex and unpredictable.

I have been thoroughly enjoying John Irving's The Cider House Rules - this is a book with real heart. As Henry V says " a good heart... is the sun and the moon".