Catch 22
Our book group choice for June 2010 is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. It is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.
Books
Books we read.
The Age of Innocence
Our book group choice for May 2010 is The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”
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Mrs Dalloway
Our book group choice for April 2010 is Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. A novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post-World War I England.
Shadow Web
Our book group choice for March 2010 is Shadow Web by NM Browne. Jessica Allendon is bored and Googles her name. Weirdly, she finds another girl, same age, same name, also living in London.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Our book group choice for February 2010 is The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy. By the time he dies, Ivan Ilych has come to understand the worthlessness of his life.
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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
Our book group choice for January 2010 is Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver. With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story.
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The Crying of Lot 49
Our book choice for December 2009 is The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. Short, straightforward in narrative, and relatively linear in plot, The Crying of Lot 49 is considered by many to be Pynchon’s most accessible novel, and is therefore the one most commonly read.
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Home
Our book group choice for November 2009 is Home by Marilynne Robinson. Home takes place concurrently in Gilead, this time in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton, Ames’s closest friend.
Answering Back
Our book group choice for October 2009 is Answering Back by Carol Ann Duffy. Carol Ann Duffy has asked some of the brightest writers in the poetry world to select a poem that is meaningful – or has meant something – to them, and write a response to it.
The Black Dahlia
Our book group choice for September 2009 is The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy. It is a fictionalized account of the real life murder of Elizabeth Short. Short’s body was found in an abandoned field near the famous Hollywood sign on January 15, 1947.
