2007

Our book choice for November 2007 is What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe.  A billiant noir farce, a dystopian vision of Britain, a family history and the story of an obsession.

Our book group choice for October 2007 is Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry by B.S. Johnson. This is regarded as B.S. Johnson’s most humorous book but it is a dark, sly humour predicated on the distaste Johnson had for an oppressive post-war British society.

Our book group choice for October 2007 is Under the Skin by Michael Faber. A lone female scouts the Scottish Highlands in search of well-proportioned men and the reader is given to expect the unfolding of some latter-day psychosexual drama.

Our book group choice for May 2007 is The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe. Wolfe’s modern American satire tells the story of Sherman McCoy, a Wall Street “Master of the Universe” who has it all — a Park Avenue apartment, a job that brings wealth, power and prestige, a beautiful wife, an even more beautiful mistress.

Our book group choice for April 2007 is Catfish and Mandala by Andrew Pham. It is the story of an American odyssey—a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam—made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland.

Our book group choice for March 2007 is Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapoor. Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a woman torn between family duty, the desire for education, and illicit love.

Our book group for February 2007 is Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the French Riviera during the twilight of the Jazz Age, the novel chronicles the rise and fall of Dick Diver, a promising young psychiatrist, and his wife, Nicole, who is one of his patients.