The Book Club

We are 5 women in the book club.

Other than that, the one thing that is common to us all is that our husband’s play golf. It would be natural to assume that the book club was a natural fall out of a handful of intelligent women forced to come together on the odd social occasion and be left cold by all the golf-talk…


There are two four balls here, so that is 8 golfers, 7 wives and a brand new addition, a fiancée!! Two of the women are golfers, one has/is trying her hand at it (that’s because she is married only recently!!!) and the others – well, I would dare to assume that like me, they look upon the pursuit with the same indifferent indulgence as they would a dog chasing cars….

Here's the thing, though. Eight couples getting together… all intelligent, well placed, well educated, well spoken, well informed and well read. All the wives have full and vibrant lives, managing careers, activities, homes, and kids. Golf not being the primary focus, often leads me to wonder, why we choose to socialize in the company of these very raucous and out of control men...

Having said that, they do make a rather endearing and entertaining bunch... Frank outspokenness seems to be the main distinguishing character of the men…which is just a fancy way of saying they have full license to abuse each other, albeit tongue in cheek, verbally, without the fear of anyone taking offence. The conversation is always electric – the atmosphere charged with the combined intelligence and sharp wit and the laughs many and full bellied...Everybody’s tongues are further loosened by the generous lubrication provided by the alcohol and the food, always – but always very lovingly and thoughtfully prepared and served.

It’s not as though these evenings leave the women cold...oh no…!!! They are much too much fun! But they happen primarily because of the guys’ bonding over golf and even though I can honestly say that there is genuine affection amongst us all - it really is about the GOLF. The book club is our forum to meet and not have golf as a reason to do so.

The book club came about for this and many other more substantial reasons. Four months and four books down the road the reasons matter no more. We are all set to take this commitment to a better and higher place. We want a name first of all. Then we want our own web-site and we want to start a blog that will feature our individual reviews for the chosen book. We have found Malaka Spice (Pune’s favourite south East Asian specialty restaurant) a most rewarding and convenient place to meet in, and not least because chef Cheeru provides us with some really exotic and creative cocktails! Featuring some tid-bit about the cuisine/food and the cocktail of the evening seems like a neat way to spice up our reviews and the website….!

Our discussions strangely, do not stray too far or too long from the book...reading up on book clubs on the internet I discovered that most book-clubs do confess to making the book an “also-ran” during the discussion meetings! We seem to be serious about enjoying the book club and all it has to offer and hey…! I love us…!!!!