Books we read.
Our book choice for February 2013 is Therese Raquin by Emile Zola. One of Zola’s most famous realistic novels, Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower classes in nineteenth-century Parisian society.
The book choice for January 2013 is Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford. Love in a Cold Climate focuses on the love life of young heiress Polly Hampton, a friend and neighbor of the Radletts.
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The book choice for December 2012 is The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Anthony and Gloria are the essence of Jazz Age glamour. A brilliant and magnetic couple, they fling themselves at life with an energy that is thrilling. New York is a playground where they dance and drink for days on end.
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Our book choice for November 2012 is The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. LBG selected Highsmith’s first book, Strangers on a Train for Christmas 2010 and enjoyed her prose, even if the ending disappointed the group. In the first book of the Ripley series, Tom is a 23-year-old living in New York. He comes from a fairly disadvantaged background,
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Our book choice for October 2012 is The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. it tells the story of the Joad family, a poor tenant farming family from Oklahoma, as they are forced to leave their home during the Great Depression and migrate to California in search of work. The novel is set during the Dust Bowl, a period of
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Our book choice for September 2012 is Oedipus the King by Sophocles. Oedipus, king of Thebes, is confronted with the problem of plague in the city.
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.
Our book choice for July 2012 is The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (a Memoir, a History) by Lewis Buzbee. This is a gorgeous ode to the beauties of bibliomania, with fascinating, warmly-written essays and personal and historical anecdotes on books and bookselling.
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Our book choice for June 2012 is Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor. All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, Mrs. Palfrey strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer, Ludovic Meyer. Fate brings them together after she has an accident outside his basement flat.
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Our book choice for May 2012 is The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes, the Man Booker Prize 2011 winner. Tony Webster and his clique befriend Adrian Finn at school. The group navigate “the girl drought of gawky adolescence together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit.”
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