My book club meets this Thursday to select our books for the year. There are about 15 members who regularly attend and we each get to pitch two titles to the group. One of the requirements, is that the book is available in paperback. I hate this requirement because it sort of prevents us from [...]
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Invisible By Paul Auster Picador June 2010 320pp The Short of It: Thoughtfully structured, Invisible is just the kind of brain candy that a true reader craves. The Rest of It: The story itself is simple. Adam Walker is dying. Before doing so, he decides to share his life story with an acquaintance from his [...]
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Case Histories By Kate Atkinson Little Brown and Company October 2005 336pp Here’s the blurb from the publisher: A breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate. Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the night and is never seen again. [...]
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My book club met last night for our annual book selection meeting. We choose our books for the entire year. This seems to work well for us and we all look forward to the meeting. I took this screenshot off of Goodreads, but it’s the exact opposite of how we plan to read them. If [...]
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Finn By Jon Clinch Random House March 2008 320pp Here’s the blurb from the publisher: Finn sets a tragic figure loose in a landscape at once familiar and mythic. It begins and ends with a lifeless body–flayed and stripped of all identifying marks–drifting down the Mississippi. The circumstances of the murder, and the secret of [...]
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