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The Night Watch

Our book choice for August 2012 is The Night Watch by Sarah Waters. The novel, which is told backward through third-person narrative, takes place in 1940s London during and after World War II.  Moving back through the 1940s, through air raids, blacked out streets, illicit liaisons, sexual adventure, to end with its beginning in 1941, The Night Watch is compelling.

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Celebrating 10 Lovely Years (2003 – 2013)

The Loveliest Book Group is celebrating 10 Lovely Years with 12 months of festivities planned from July 2012 to commemorate a decade of reading. Between July 2012 and 2013, this blog will publish a series of features from members discussing the experience of being in a regular, committed book group as well as sharing some of the highlights (and lowlights)

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In Patagonia

Our book choice for March 2012 is In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin. Chatwin’s exquisite account of his journey through “the uttermost part of the earth,” that stretch of land at the southern tip of South America, where bandits were once made welcome and Charles Darwin formed part of his “survival of the fittest” theory.

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