Our book choice for July 2005 is Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self. What if there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to?
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Our book group choice for May 2005 is City of Glass by Paul Auster. Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, City of Glass inaugurates an intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as “post-existentialist private eye.”
Our book group choice for April 2005 is Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris. Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one’s best hopes and most common deeds.
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Our book group choice for February 2005 is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. First published in 1967, it is considered one of the most important works of Latin American literature and has been translated into over 35 languages.
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Our book choice for January 2005 is Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. It is a satire of the British newspaper industry and the sensationalist reporting of foreign wars. The novel tells the story of William Boot, a mild-mannered nature writer who is mistaken for a foreign correspondent and sent to cover a war in the fictional African country of Ishmaelia.
Our book group choice for December 2004 is Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. The play opens in the Loman home in Brooklyn, New York. Willy Loman, a 63-year-old traveling salesman, is preparing to go on a business trip. He is anxious and distracted, and he seems to be losing his grip on reality. He has frequent flashbacks to
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Our book choice for November 2004 is The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. It was first published in 1989 and has since become one of the best-selling books of all time, with over 25 million copies sold. The book has been translated into 40 languages and has been used by businesses, schools, and organizations around
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Our book choice for October 2004 is The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. It is a sprawling, multi-layered novel that explores themes of loss, memory, and the nature of reality. The story follows Toru Okada, a young man who is searching for his wife, Kumiko, who has disappeared without a trace. As Toru searches for Kumiko, he encounters a
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Our book group choice for August 2004 is The Outsider by Albert Camus. The first of Camus’ novels published in his lifetime, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria, who, weeks after his mother’s funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault’s first-person narrative before and after the
Our book group choice for July 2004 is Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is narrated by Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged literature professor who becomes obsessed with Dolores Haze, a 12-year-old girl whom he nicknames “Lolita.” Humbert recounts his relationship with Lolita, beginning with his first encounter with her and her mother, Charlotte Haze, and ending with Lolita’s escape from
