Sunday, March 02, 2008
BOOK CLUB PICKS AGAIN
Here are the books that the reading group selected at our meeting last month. I challenge anyone to find a theme uniting this collection.
Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
[Complete text here]
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq and Gavin Bowd
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg
Other books we discussed but were not selected:
The Girls of Ryadh by R. A.
In The Wake Of The Plague: The Black Death And The World It Made by Norman F. Cantor
King of the World by David Remnick
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
Run by Ann Patchett
Birth of the Chess Queen: A History by Marilyn Yalom
Members of the Toner Nation are required to read these books on their own and rate them in the comments to this post. Note that lengthy titles are no longer appreciated: I wanted to read A Savage War of Peace, until I found out it topped 700 pages. Now I'll never know how the French colonization of Algeria turned out.
Here are the books that the reading group selected at our meeting last month. I challenge anyone to find a theme uniting this collection.
Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
[Complete text here]
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq and Gavin Bowd
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Lord Valentine's Castle by Robert Silverberg
Other books we discussed but were not selected:
The Girls of Ryadh by R. A.
In The Wake Of The Plague: The Black Death And The World It Made by Norman F. Cantor
King of the World by David Remnick
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
Run by Ann Patchett
Birth of the Chess Queen: A History by Marilyn Yalom
Members of the Toner Nation are required to read these books on their own and rate them in the comments to this post. Note that lengthy titles are no longer appreciated: I wanted to read A Savage War of Peace, until I found out it topped 700 pages. Now I'll never know how the French colonization of Algeria turned out.
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