Last week, we met to discuss the book Amy and I read: Midnight's Children. After Amy served us an amazing soup and secured a heart-breaking reading comprehension quiz victory, we went on to discuss why we didn't read Midnight's Children. Natalie explained how she can't read a book when she doesn't connect with the main character, while Or described the story of another sci-fi novel. I was too busy drinking to write down the title, although I do remember that:
- Amy is reading On Brick Lane, not to be confused with Brick Lane
- Natalie is reading Prague, a book on Hungary?!?!?!?
- I'm reading The Dark Half by Stephen King, and I'm trembling like a little girl
The absentees might think that they didn't miss much that night, but that would not be giving credit to Laure and Edouard! En effet, the blogosphere joins us in congratulating them as they are expecting!!! Will we be adding an eleventh book club member next year? Will Or and Karen serve burgers at the next book meeting? Will we be reading Teletubbies: An Outing at the Zoo over the Christmas break next year? I think so!!!
Until then, our next book club is on Feb 26, and we are discussing what will probably win the best book award of the year: The Good Earth. This is an easy read folks, so I expect everyone to have read it (that means you too Steve).
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Road to Glory
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-Things Fall Apart
-Sirens of Baghdad
-Volkswagen Blues
-Pigeon and a Boy
-Elegance of the Hedgehog
-Lost Horizon
-Three Men in a Boat
-A Meaningful Life
-100 Years of Solitude
-Man in the High Castle
(2008-2009)
-Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
-Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
-Midnight's Children
-The Good Earth
-Master & Margarita
(BEST & WORST book of the year)
-The Road
(BEST Book of the Year)
-The Shadow of the Sun
-Homesick
-Divisadero
-One Way
-Things Fall Apart
-Sirens of Baghdad
-Volkswagen Blues
-Pigeon and a Boy
-Elegance of the Hedgehog
-Lost Horizon
-Three Men in a Boat
-A Meaningful Life
-100 Years of Solitude
-Man in the High Castle
(2008-2009)
-Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
-Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
-Midnight's Children
-The Good Earth
-Master & Margarita
(BEST & WORST book of the year)
-The Road
(BEST Book of the Year)
-The Shadow of the Sun
-Homesick
-Divisadero
-One Way
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2 comments:
I talked about 2 authors (amongst other things):
1. Philip K Dick: Mostly wrote science fiction, and considered by many to be the best and probably best known for the film adaptations of his novels, specifically Blade Runner and Minority Report.
PKD also wrote The Man in The High Castle, which is an alternate history novel based on the premise that Germany and Japan won WWII (it also featured on my top 5 list in this very blog ;-)
PKD's writing is typified by 2 distinct leitmotifs: (a) the story takes place in a police state; and (b) the protagonist suffers from an acute lack of ability to distinguish between what's real and what's not real.
PKD came up in discussing the affinity, or lack thereof, of some of the book club's members to elements of science fiction and fantasy in literature.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -- Philip K Dick
2. Orson Scott Card: Another prolific science fiction writer whose best known novel is probably Ender's Game, which tells the story of a group of highly gifted children who are enlisted to save the world from an alien race (with vast underlying themes relating to gifted children, socialization and prejudice). This novel has subsequently spun out 2 distinct series of novels, the latter of which (the "Shadow" series) depicts the post-war lives of some of these super-smart kids, where one of whom, Achilles (the antagonist), seeks to subdue all the others - which kind of brings us back to Midnight's Children...
Rather than Teletubbies for our childrens pick in the fall, I recommend Baby Einstein!!
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