Hello Everyone,
We will be meeting Thursday evening November 18, 2004 at 6:30 pm at Asha's house to discuss Christine's book the Roaches Have No King. Tanisha will be presenting her three choices for books for the February meeting. Asha will send out a food chart and directions. Please vote on Liz's book selections below so I can order the books and have them by the 18th.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Monday, October 25, 2004
Das Book Club
OK, everyone. Mother Linda has finally coaxed me into publishing my selections (for discussion at the January meeting, or late December for you insane folks). Here they are, with links to the B&N review pages. Please vote.
Atonement, Ian McEwen
Atonement
My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk, Erdag M. Goknar (Translator)
My Name is Red
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
Atonement, Ian McEwen
Atonement
My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk, Erdag M. Goknar (Translator)
My Name is Red
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
October 17 Meeting
I just wanted to remind everyone that the next meeting to discuss Asha's selection, Mysteries of Pittsburgh, is Sunday October 17, 2004 at 10 am at Asha's house. Asha will be sending out directions as well food assignments. Liz will be providing her book selections for the Dec/Jan meeting. Please vote on Christine's selections for November so that I can order the books and distribute them at the meeting.
Monday, October 04, 2004
November book selections
My three book club choices, in no particular order:
Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner
Just published this year and still in hardcover. 322 pages, $15.40
Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize (whatever that is). Set in unromanticized arctic Alaska, "captures the contrast between the wild world and our ravaging consumer culture". I’m only a few chapters into it, but I like it. It is a coming-of-age story told by a boy with two siblings raised by an artist father who has abandoned civilization to live in a sod igloo located a days sled journey away from an Eskimo village. The family lives a more primitive lifestyle than their Eskimo neighbors, and the boy’s brother and sister eventually abandon the tundra for the city. The boy reveres traditional Eskimo ways, loves wolves and an Eskimo girl, but is discriminated against because he is white. It is a story about a boy torn between two cultures, fitting in in neither, who tries to reconcile his wilderness experience with modern society.
The Roaches Have No King by Daniel Evan Weiss
Published in 2001, 249 pages (a quick read), $13.00 paperback
OK, I warned everyone that this book is sexually graphic and politically incorrect. That said, it is also very different from anything we’ve read before. A dark comedy about a society of roaches living in liberal legal aid lawyer Ira Fishblatt’s apartment, told from the point of view of a roach named Numbers. When Ira’s slob girlfriend "The Gypsy" moves out and new girlfriend Ruth moves in, Ira renovates the kitchen and the roaches start to starve. In desperation, Numbers thinks up crazy schemes to break up Ira and Ruth and regain control over the kitchen cabinets. Heather has convinced me that the book has literary merit and lots of things to discuss, in a controversial "what is art anyway?" sort of way.
The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
Published in 2001, 592 pages (whew!), $6.98 hardcover, $13.50 paperback
Haven’t read it, but it’s been on my list for awhile. It appears to be a modern Midwestern family drama. An elderly mother with a soon to be senile husband wants to bring her three dysfunctional adult children home for one last family Christmas together. While it seems to have mixed reviews, Scott recommends it, and Scott’s favorite(?) author David Foster Wallace apparently called it "funny and deeply sad...". Probably my third choice, but only because I haven’t read it yet.
Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner
Just published this year and still in hardcover. 322 pages, $15.40
Winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize (whatever that is). Set in unromanticized arctic Alaska, "captures the contrast between the wild world and our ravaging consumer culture". I’m only a few chapters into it, but I like it. It is a coming-of-age story told by a boy with two siblings raised by an artist father who has abandoned civilization to live in a sod igloo located a days sled journey away from an Eskimo village. The family lives a more primitive lifestyle than their Eskimo neighbors, and the boy’s brother and sister eventually abandon the tundra for the city. The boy reveres traditional Eskimo ways, loves wolves and an Eskimo girl, but is discriminated against because he is white. It is a story about a boy torn between two cultures, fitting in in neither, who tries to reconcile his wilderness experience with modern society.
The Roaches Have No King by Daniel Evan Weiss
Published in 2001, 249 pages (a quick read), $13.00 paperback
OK, I warned everyone that this book is sexually graphic and politically incorrect. That said, it is also very different from anything we’ve read before. A dark comedy about a society of roaches living in liberal legal aid lawyer Ira Fishblatt’s apartment, told from the point of view of a roach named Numbers. When Ira’s slob girlfriend "The Gypsy" moves out and new girlfriend Ruth moves in, Ira renovates the kitchen and the roaches start to starve. In desperation, Numbers thinks up crazy schemes to break up Ira and Ruth and regain control over the kitchen cabinets. Heather has convinced me that the book has literary merit and lots of things to discuss, in a controversial "what is art anyway?" sort of way.
The Corrections: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen
Published in 2001, 592 pages (whew!), $6.98 hardcover, $13.50 paperback
Haven’t read it, but it’s been on my list for awhile. It appears to be a modern Midwestern family drama. An elderly mother with a soon to be senile husband wants to bring her three dysfunctional adult children home for one last family Christmas together. While it seems to have mixed reviews, Scott recommends it, and Scott’s favorite(?) author David Foster Wallace apparently called it "funny and deeply sad...". Probably my third choice, but only because I haven’t read it yet.
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