Although this book was one of our more unpopular choices, we had an extremely enjoyable evening discussing it! The North Nibley Bookgroup is an offshoot of North Nibley Womans Institute, and the six members choose a book in rotation every month, with the meeting being held in that members house. No organisation is required, beyond choosing the next month or twos books. Pat Burns-Cox takes notes of the meetings, held together in what is now an extensive file - over the last five years we have read 75 books - and we often refer back to them. We have also experimented with various ways of marking the books. At one point we gave each book two marks, one for literary quality, the other for readability. Eventually, this was decided to be too cumbersome, and we give one, though often with the cry Its very well written, but I didnt enjoy it at all! or vice versa. What has proved more interesting, though, is recording the range of marks given for a book - we gave The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver between 7 and 8 marks, while White Teeth by Zadie Smith got 2 and 8. The latter was, in fact, the least popular book that we have read, narrowly beating Beryl Bainbridges Master Georgie. Not appearing in the list is The Information by Martin Amis, which was chosen, but boycotted by another member of the group. So that we dont begin to sound like an anti-book group, we all loved The Poisonwood Bible, Beloved, by Toni Morrison, An Equal Music by Vikram Seth, and, in fact, most of the other 75 books that we have read.