Our book group choice for September 2013 is The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. The love affair between Maurice Bendix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off.
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Our book choice for August 2013 is Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates. We previously read Yates’s Revolutionary Road in 2010. In Eleven Kinds of Loneliness, his unflinchingly realistic stories explore loneliness, but they don’t neglect failure, cruelty, and heartbreak.
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Our book group choice for July 2013 is What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver. This is the second Carver book LBG has read, having read Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? in January 2010.
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Our book choice for June 2013 is Every Contact Leaves a Trace by Elanor Dymott. Alex is in his thirties, a solitary man who has finally found love in the form of his beautiful and vivacious wife, Rachel. When Rachel is brutally murdered one Midsummer Night by the lake in the grounds of their alma mater, Worcester College, Oxford, Alex’s life
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Our book choice for May 2013 is Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively. The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history, lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness but she imagines writing a history of the world.
The longlist for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction was announced this week which included LBG’s March selection Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.
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An online debate is occuring at The Independent examining the value of prizes for literature produced by women, specifically in the context of whether the Women’s Prize for Fiction should be eliminated.
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Our book choice for April 2013 is The Blindfold by Siri Hustvedt. This will be our second Hustvedt choice, our Christmas 2005 selection was The Enchantment of Lily Dahl. Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City.
In celebrating World Book Day, thousands of children around the globe dress up in costumes. In a piece at BBC.co.uk, Dominic Casciani raises a concern that there is too much focus on the commercialised aspects of the day — costumes, plastic figurines, flamboyant parties and the like — and not enough where it should be: on books.
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Our book choice for March 2013 is Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River.
