Books we read.
Our book group choice for July 2009 is Something to Tell You by Hanif Kureishi. Jamal is middle-aged, though reluctant to admit it. He has an ex-wife, a son he adores, a thriving career as a psychoanalyst and vast reserves of unsatisfied desire.
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Our book group choice for June 2009 is One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Aleksandr Solzhenstenitsyn. First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature.
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Our book group choice for May 2009 is A Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel Spark. Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand, and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London.
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Our book choice for April 2009 is The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh. The play is the viciously funny and seriously disturbing tale of a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders occurring in his town.
Our book group choice for March 2009 is The Invention Of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares. Set on a mysterious island, Bioy’s novella is a story of suspense and exploration, as well as a wonderfully unlikely romance, in which every detail is at once crystal clear and deeply mysterious.
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Our book group choice for February 2009 is The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet.
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Our book group choice for January 2009 is Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton. Ethan Frome, a poor, downtrodden New England farmer is trapped in a loveless marriage to his invalid wife, Zeena. His ambition and intelligence are oppressed by Zeena’s cold, conniving character.
Our book group choice for December 2008 is Three Days of Rain by Richard Greenberg. A year after he disappeared on the day of his father’s funeral, Walker Janeway returns to New York.
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Our book group choice for November 2008 is Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Dickens’s magnificent novel of guilt, desire, and redemption.
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Our book group choice for October 2008 is Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk. Arlington Park, a modern-day English suburb very much like its American counterparts, is a place devoted to the profitable ordinariness of life. Amidst its leafy avenues and comfortable houses, its residents live out the dubious accomplishments of civilization: material prosperity, personal freedom, and moral indifference.
