The Shanghai Dolls book club has been going since May 2009, when about eight of us held the inaugural meeting at Julia’s apartment.  This was the first time I met the Dolls.  Many books were suggested and we eventually decided on the first three (one book per month), the main influencing factor being their availability, what with this being China!  Since then the Dolls Book Club has been held every month at different venues around Shanghai. 

From now on, I’ll post a monthly review of the book that we’ve just read.  I guess this means that I’ll have to take notes form now on…  The usual way of things is lots of chat, catching up, drinking of wine and then “oh, we should talk about the book!”.  All pretty informal.

There’s a wide range of literary tastes in the Dolls Book Club, so it’s a great way to try out a genre that you might not normally go for.  There’s a few of us sci-fi fans in there so July’s book is “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick.  The film “Blade Runner” is based on the book and it’s being screened at Dada bar on Tuesday 27July and listed on Dolls Events Page.