Sunday, July 29, 2012

Books - International Fiction Book Club of New Orleans








We meet at the Blue Cypress Books at 6:00 p.m. to discuss the novel.
Map to: 8126 Oak Street - New Orleans, LA 70118


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 attend the meeting.


We read books that are meet these conditions:

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.


2012
January 18 My Son’s Story - Nadine Gordimer
February 8 (moved due to Mardi Gras) Foe - J.M Coetzee
March 21 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
April 18 Island Beneath the Sea - Isabel Allende
May 16 Dancing to Almendra by Mayra Montero
June 20 Rose - Martin Cruz Smith
August 15 Saturday - Ian McEwan
September 19 Little America – Henry Bromell
October 17 A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
November 21 Heat and Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
December - No Meeting

2013
January 15 No Place for Heroes - Laura Restrepo
February 19 On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town - Susan Loomis


Books Read in the Past

5 comments:

Iliana said...

I can't believe you guys plan that far in advance! Do you think that helps with your membership?

Right now one of my mystery groups plans 3-4 books at a time and the other one only one book in advance. Don't like the one book in advance thing very much.

Isabel said...

I originally thought that there were fewer selections than actually submitted. I later found out that I had deleted an email with more nominations. So, I just decided to place all the nominations in without a vote.

The selections are varied!

whisperinggums said...

Would you believe my son is in New Orleans right now! Only for three nights, but he's having a ball.

It just clicked - I'm slow that way! Your group sounds good - seems to do a similar range of books to my group.

Isabel said...

WG - I hope that he enjoys himself. The winter is mild right now.

No snow!

It's just very humid.

If you ever come on this side of the world, please join for a meeting, even if you hadn't read the book.

Anonymous said...


May I suggest Storm of Hate, by Jeff Todd?

The novel launched on the day Katrina formed in The Bahamas, written by a Canadian journalist actually living in The Bahamas.

And with Isaac targeting New Orleans now ... what an odd coincidence!

http://www.amazon.com/Storm-Hate-Hurricane-Katrina-ebook/dp/B008X7FMJG/ref=tmm_kin_title_0