Only three books were suggested for November:
A Complicated Kindness
Lucky You
Madeleine is Sleeping
A Complicated Kindness was selected.
Books
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
October book club choices
The October book choices were:
1. Nothing (Intet)
2. The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Or: how violence develops and where it can
lead
3. The Yiddish Policemen's Union
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Nothing (Intet in Danish) received the most votes.
1. Nothing (Intet)
2. The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Or: how violence develops and where it can
lead
3. The Yiddish Policemen's Union
4. The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Nothing (Intet in Danish) received the most votes.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
August book club choices
The book choices for August were all quite unique.
1. How to Paint a Dead Man, Sarah Hall
2. Go Down Moses, William Faulkner
3. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
4. Kafka on the Shore/海辺のカフカ, Haruki Murakami
5. Trials and Tribulations. A Berlin Novel/Irrungen, Wirrungen, Theodor Fontane
6. Jubilee, Margaret Walker
Kafka on the Shore was selected.
1. How to Paint a Dead Man, Sarah Hall
2. Go Down Moses, William Faulkner
3. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
4. Kafka on the Shore/海辺のカフカ, Haruki Murakami
5. Trials and Tribulations. A Berlin Novel/Irrungen, Wirrungen, Theodor Fontane
6. Jubilee, Margaret Walker
Kafka on the Shore was selected.
Friday, July 30, 2010
The Shipping News
This 336 page novel by Annie Proulx is lengthy considering its content. Quoyle (like coil) the main character has reached his mid-thirties without having much of a direction, friends, or love in his life. When his father dies and his wife leaves him Quoyle finds himself at a loss about what to do. His aunt suggests returning to the family home in Newfoundland and he acquiesces.
In Newfoundland Quoyle builds a new life. Though stumbling through life as a not so successful newspaper man in New Jersey he finds that his skill is more than adequate at the small town paper in Newfoundland. He also finds love and friendship.
All in all, this is a pretty good story about a person returning to their roots and finding happiness. However, there is a lot of dark foreshadowing throughout the book which leads the reader to expect darker events which do not occur. Perhaps that is why the end was disappointing, or it might have been the Lazarus moment, but the ending is unexpectedly cheerful.
In Newfoundland Quoyle builds a new life. Though stumbling through life as a not so successful newspaper man in New Jersey he finds that his skill is more than adequate at the small town paper in Newfoundland. He also finds love and friendship.
All in all, this is a pretty good story about a person returning to their roots and finding happiness. However, there is a lot of dark foreshadowing throughout the book which leads the reader to expect darker events which do not occur. Perhaps that is why the end was disappointing, or it might have been the Lazarus moment, but the ending is unexpectedly cheerful.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
July Book Club choices
The book club choices were made from four previously proposed books plus three more new ones.
1. Divided sky/Der geteilte Himmel, by Christa Wolf
2. Five hours with Mario/Cinco Horas Con Mario, by Miguel Delibes
3. The Stone Raft/A Jangada de Pedra, by José Saramago
4. A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
5. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
6. Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende
7. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
8. The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
Daughter of Fortune was selected to be read.
1. Divided sky/Der geteilte Himmel, by Christa Wolf
2. Five hours with Mario/Cinco Horas Con Mario, by Miguel Delibes
3. The Stone Raft/A Jangada de Pedra, by José Saramago
4. A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
5. The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
6. Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende
7. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
8. The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
Daughter of Fortune was selected to be read.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
May book club choices
1. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carrol
2. Shiver, Maggie Stiefvater
3. The Year of the Hare/Jäniksen vuosi, Arto Paasilinna
4. The Memory Artists, by Jeffrey Moore
5. The Stone Raft/A Jangada de Pedra, José Saramago
6. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
7. The Testament, John Grisham
The Year of the Hare/Jäniksen vuosi was the book we chose to read this month.
2. Shiver, Maggie Stiefvater
3. The Year of the Hare/Jäniksen vuosi, Arto Paasilinna
4. The Memory Artists, by Jeffrey Moore
5. The Stone Raft/A Jangada de Pedra, José Saramago
6. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
7. The Testament, John Grisham
The Year of the Hare/Jäniksen vuosi was the book we chose to read this month.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Book club nominations for April 2010
In order to start a book club I asked potential participants to suggest books they were interested in reading. These are the books:
1. Divided sky/Der geteilte Himmel by Christa Wolf
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
3. Thanks for the memories by Cecelia Ahern
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life by Cami Walker
6. Five hours with Mario/Cinco Horas Con Mario by Miguel Delibes
7. Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
I find it amazing that so much variety can exist between seven books!
1. Divided sky/Der geteilte Himmel by Christa Wolf
2. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
3. Thanks for the memories by Cecelia Ahern
4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
5. 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life by Cami Walker
6. Five hours with Mario/Cinco Horas Con Mario by Miguel Delibes
7. Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney
I find it amazing that so much variety can exist between seven books!
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