Our book group choice for December is Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. As a child, Kathy – now thirty-one years old – lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only […]
Our book group choice for November 2006 is Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. It is a book about how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant–in the blink of an eye–that actually aren’t as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consistently inept?
Our book choice for October 2006 is Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain. In Letters from the Earth, Twain presents himself as the Father of History—reviewing and interpreting events from the Garden of Eden through the Fall and the Flood, translating the papers of Adam and his descendants through the generations.
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Our book group choice for September 2006 is Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Dark allegory describes the narrator’s journey up the Congo River and his meeting with, and fascination by, Mr. Kurtz, a mysterious personage who dominates the unruly inhabitants of the region.
Our book group choice for August 2006 is The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway. The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, it is one of Ernest Hemingway’s masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style.
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Our book group choice for July 2006 is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
Our book group choice for June 2006 is Lie in the Dark by Dan Fesperman. Investigator Petric makes his living from the dead. Lately business has been slow, what with the siege around Sarajevo.
Our book group choice for April 2006 is In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the shimmering city born out of water to become a miracle of east-west trade: rich
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Our book group for March 2006 is Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay. First published in 1841, the book chronicles a wide range of popular delusions and fads throughout history, from tulip mania to the South Sea Bubble. Mackay’s central thesis is that crowd psychology is a powerful force that can lead to irrational and
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Our book group choice for February 2006 Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter. Is Sophie Fevvers the toast of Europe’s capitals? Part swan? Or all fake?
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