Life After Life
Our book group choice for February 2014 is Life After Life by Kate Atkinson. On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife.
A Christmas Carol
Our book group choice for January 2014 is A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens. It’s a classic tale well known by all. Cruel miser Ebeneezer Scrooge has never met a shilling he doesn’t like…and hardly a man he does.
Lively Pens Short Ghost Story
Penelope Lively, one of the authors who featured in the 2013 selection, has produced a ghoulish short story, published in The Observer.
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Stoner
Our book group choice for November 2013 is Stoner by John Williams. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family.
The Fault in Our Stars
Our book choice for Christmas 2013 is The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis.
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Frankenstein
Our book group choice for October 2013 is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein.
The End of the Affair
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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Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
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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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
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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Every Contact Leaves a Trace
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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