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
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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