Books we read.
Our book group choice for May 2021 is Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan. Ava moved to Hong Kong to find happiness, but so far, it isn’t working out. Since she left Dublin, she’s been spending her days teaching English to rich children — she’s been assigned the grammar classes because she lacks warmth — and her nights avoiding petulant roommates […]
Our book group choice for April 2021 is Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg. The father, Giuseppe Levi, is a Jewish scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking. Impatient and intractable, he is constantly at odds with his impressionable and wistful wife Lidia – yet he cannot be without her.
Our book group choice for March 2021 is The Green Road by Anne Enright. Spanning 30 years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart.
Our book group choice for February 2021 is The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles tells the story of humanity’s repeated attempts to colonize the red planet. The first men were few.
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Our book group choice for January 2021 is Hot Milk by Deborah Levy. Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mother’s unexplainable illness.
Our book group choice for December 2020 is An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge. It is 1950 and Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager for a Liverpool rep company.
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Our book choice for November 2020 is Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons. A wickedly funny portrait of British rural life in the 1930s. Flora Poste, a recently orphaned socialite, moves in with her country relatives, the gloomy Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm, and becomes enmeshed in a web of violent emotions, despair, and scheming, until Flora manages to set
Our book group choice for October 2020 is Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler. It is the story of private detective Philip Marlowe. The novel follows Marlowe’s movements in and around Bay City, a fictional town in California not far from Los Angeles.
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Our book group choice for September 2020 is Everything Under by Daisy Johnson. The dictionary doesn’t contain every word. Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, knows this better than most.
Our book group choice for August 2020 is The Crossway by Guy Stagg. In 2013 Guy Stagg made a pilgrimage from Canterbury to Jerusalem. Though a non-believer, he began the journey after suffering several years of mental illness, hoping the ritual would heal him.
