Our book group choice for July 2006 is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
Our book group choice for June 2006 is Lie in the Dark by Dan Fesperman. Investigator Petric makes his living from the dead. Lately business has been slow, what with the siege around Sarajevo.
Our book group choice for April 2006 is In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the shimmering city born out of water to become a miracle of east-west trade: rich
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Our book group for March 2006 is Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay. First published in 1841, the book chronicles a wide range of popular delusions and fads throughout history, from tulip mania to the South Sea Bubble. Mackay’s central thesis is that crowd psychology is a powerful force that can lead to irrational and
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Our book group choice for February 2006 Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter. Is Sophie Fevvers the toast of Europe’s capitals? Part swan? Or all fake?
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Our book group choice for January 2006 is Neuromancer by William Gibson. The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace.
Our book group choice for December 2005 is The Enchantment of Lily Dahl by Siri Hustvedt. The protagonist of Hustvedt’s second novel is a heroine of the old style: tough, beautiful, and brave.
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Our book choice for November 2005 is Ways Of Hearing: A User’s Guide To The Pop Psyche from Elvis to Eminem by Ben Thompson. Someone once said that “pop music is an argument anyone can join in on.”
Our book group choice for September 2005 is Small Island by Andrea Levy. Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. The novel tells the story of four characters who are affected by the Windrush generation of Caribbean immigrants who came to the United Kingdom in the
Our book for August 2005 is A Room with a View by EM Foster. The story follows Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman who is on a tour of Italy with her chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. Lucy is a conventional young woman who has been raised in a strict Victorian household. She is engaged to be married to Cecil Vyse, a wealthy
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