Books we read.
Our book group choice for July 2016 is Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area.
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Our book group choice for June 2016 is The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver. The year is 2029, and nothing is as it should be. The very essence of American life, the dollar, is under attack. In a coordinated move by the rest of the world’s governments, the dollar loses all its value.
Our book group choice for May 2016 is Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi. Set in the sweltering summer of 1938 in Portugal, a country under the Fascist shadow of Spain, Pereira Maintains tells a tale of reluctant heroism.
Our book group choice for April 2016 is The Vegetarian by Han King. Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat.
Our book group choice for March 2016 is How to Be Both by Ali Smith. Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith’s novels are like nothing else. A true original, she is a one-of-a-kind literary sensation.
Our book group choice for February 2016 is Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín. Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Tóibín’s sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.
Our book group choice for January 2016 is I, Claudius by Robert Graves. From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54.
Our book group choice for December 2015 is A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light.
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Our book group choice for November 2015 is The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge. Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine- bottling factory.
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Our book group choice for October 2015 is Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel. Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab beanpole of an assistant, the other a charismatic, corpulent psychic whose connection to the spiritual world torments her.
