Our book group choice for December 2003 is A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself. The monks of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz preserve the surviving remnants of man’s scientific […]
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Our book group choice for November 2003 is The Lovely Bones by Alice Seybold. The Lovely Bones tells the story of Susie Salmon, a 14-year-old girl who is murdered by her neighbor, George Harvey. The novel is narrated by Susie from her perspective in the afterlife, as she watches over her family and friends as they try to cope with
Our book group choice for October 2003 is If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. The book is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration “when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded.”
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Our book group for September 2003 is Brick Lane by Monica Ali. With great poignancy, It is a novel by Monica Ali that tells the story of Nazneen, a young Bangladeshi woman who is forced to marry a much older man and move to London. The novel explores themes of culture clash, identity, and the search for belonging.
Our book group choice for The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Here is the story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found.
Our book group choice for July 2003 is The Quiet American by Graham Greene. Narrated in the first person by journalist Thomas Fowler, the novel depicts the breakdown of French colonialism in Vietnam and early American involvement in the Vietnam War.
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