Purpose: To read fictional books that meet the following criterion:
- Foreign author, foreign setting
- Foreign author making observations about US setting
- US author going to a foreign place
- A couple of non-fiction works are OK also.
In 2008, we will be reading:
September 17 - Gould's Book of Fish A Novel in Twelve Fish - Richard Flanagan
October 15 Don't let Go to the Dogs Tonight - An African Childhood - Alexandra Fuller
November 19 - Nomination Night and Cloudstreet - Tim Winton
December - NO MEETING
January 21 Waiting - Ha Jin
10% discount for book club members will be available at DeVille Books, 134 Carondelet (steps from Canal St. and the French Quarter)New Orleans, LA 70130.
The store is in the edge of the CBD (Central Business District), just across Canal Street from the French Quarter. Call 504-525-1846 for store hours and to order your books.
If you can't make it to the bookstore, you may buy books somewhere else. The purpose of using this bookstore is to support a worthy local business in New Orleans.
We will meet at DeVille Books at 6:15 p.m. to discuss the novel.
Map to:
DeVille Books , 134 Carondelet St.
NEW MEMBERS and Out-of- Town VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME.
Contact Isabel at 504 975 5064 or workingwords100@yahoo.com for details.
No attendance records are ever kept, so if LIFE gets in the way, it's ok. If a book doesn't interest you, you aren't obligated to read it.
NEW MEMBERS and Out-of- Town VISITORS ALWAYS WELCOME.
Contact Isabel at 504 975 5064 or workingwords100@yahoo.com for details.
No attendance records are ever kept, so if LIFE gets in the way, it's ok. If a book doesn't interest you, you aren't obligated to read it.
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Books Read in 2008
Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
Black City - Georges Sand
Absurdistan - Gary Sheyngart
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
Bone People - Keri Hulme
Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Gathering Ann Enright
Book Read in 2007
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (this work was the 2006 Booker Prize winner)
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Conjurer’s Bird by Martin Davies
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Conjurer’s Bird by Martin Davies
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Dominic Smith
The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre by Dominic Smith
The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
5 comments:
I plan to read Inheritance of Loss for one of the online book groups I participate in - Written Word. You should check it out.
I've had Maps for Lost Lovers on my stacks forever. You guys have a great list. Can't wait to hear how it goes.
Thank you for the info about the Written Word book group.
I don't know how you keep up with all these different sites!
Go girl!
hello!
I love the work of Paulo Coelho!!!! Do you know that he has a newsletter?
http://www.warriorofthelight.com/engl/index.html
You can also go to his blog and comment with other readers your
impressions... http://www.paulocoelhoblog.com
it's simply wonderful!
Best wishes!
Thanks aarth hilal.
I don't spend too much time looking for websites, so I am glad to hear about new ones.
I would like to introduce my book for your book club to read www.cafepress.com/sherry2.
Let me know if you are interested at publicityultimat@aol.com.
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