Our book choice for June 2004 is Brighton Rock by Graham Greene. Brighton is a British seaside resort town and a place of contrasts. It is a place of pleasure and excitement, but it is also a place of sin and violence. The novel explores the dark side of Brighton, and it shows how the city can corrupt even the […]
Our book group choice for May 2004 is Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland. It tells the story of a fictional school shooting in suburban Vancouver, British Columbia in 1988. The novel is told in four parts, each with a different narrator and focus.
Our book group for March 2004 is Diary by Chuck Palahniuk. Misty Marie Wilmot is a waitress in a hotel on the beautiful tourist island of Waytansea. She is also a former art student, full of talent and dreams. But those dreams are long gone, now that she is married to Peter, a contractor who has been in a coma
Our book choice for February 2004 is One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. In this classic of the 1960s, Ken Kesey’s hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over.
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Our book choice for January 2014 is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon. The story is told from the perspective of Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy with autism. Christopher is a brilliant mathematician, but he has difficulty understanding and interacting with the world around him.
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Our book group choice for December 2003 is A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself. The monks of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz preserve the surviving remnants of man’s scientific
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Our book group choice for November 2003 is The Lovely Bones by Alice Seybold. The Lovely Bones tells the story of Susie Salmon, a 14-year-old girl who is murdered by her neighbor, George Harvey. The novel is narrated by Susie from her perspective in the afterlife, as she watches over her family and friends as they try to cope with
Our book group choice for October 2003 is If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. The book is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration “when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded.”
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Our book group for September 2003 is Brick Lane by Monica Ali. With great poignancy, It is a novel by Monica Ali that tells the story of Nazneen, a young Bangladeshi woman who is forced to marry a much older man and move to London. The novel explores themes of culture clash, identity, and the search for belonging.
Our book group choice for The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Here is the story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found.
