Reader's Choice: Let's Pick the Next Book!
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Vivian
Sep 28, 2008, 9:42:34 PM9/28/08
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Hey all,
Today's gathering at Costello's Cafe to discuss The Power and the
Glory was spiffy - and we are on to the next book!
Several suggestions were made during this gathering, and since so many
on this list are new to the group, we decided to try out a more
organic, democratic approach to picking next month's book:
Click, or copy and paste, this link
http://www.polldaddy.com/p/959359/
to go to the poll to vote on November's book. You'll notice the title
and a url you can also copy and paste to read more about the books.
Below is also a quick description of each. There will be an "Other",
which will more than likely go into the poll for DECEMBER'S book.
The only thing to keep in mind is that the nature of the book group is
variety, from memoirs and autobiographies, to historical fiction to,
well, whatever... (almost -- the consensus is that romance novels are
out, which I know will disappoint so many of you.) We often pick books
that can be discussed in SOME, even vague, way with regards to
spiritual themes. They do not, however, need to be located in the
"inspirational" section of the bookstore.
We're lookin' to meet Sunday, Nov. 16th, so as to give you guys about
a week to respond to this poll so we can decide the book, venue, so on
and then get the "official" word out from there. Cool?
Thanks guys!
Vivian
Book descriptions:
Option 1: Possession:
An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and
a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars
researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller
favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom. (Soon to be a movie)
Option 2: Silence:
A novel of faith and doubt set in medieval Japan. Endo relates the
history of the Japanese Christians who were persecuted after the rise
to power of the samurai in the 17th century, and in particular the
plight of Japanese priests who were forced to choose between their
identity as Christians and as Japanese.
Option 3: The Know It All
Alarmed and more than a little chagrined at the massive gaps in his
personal knowledge base, Jacobs sets for himself a suitably daunting,
and some might say insane, task: to fill in the holes in his Ivy-
League education by reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The entire
Encyclopaedia Britannica. With endearing wit and a disarming
frankness, The Know-It-All recounts the unexpected and comically
disruptive effects Jacobs's freshly harvested knowledge has on every
part of his life — from his marriage to his sweetheart Julie, to his
complicated relationship with his lawyer father and the rest of his
charmingly eccentric New York family, to his job as an editor at
Esquire.
Option 4: Things Fall Apart:
Achebe's masterpiece tells the story of Okonkwo, strongman of an Ibo
village in Nigeria, as he witnesses the destruction of his culture and
the loss of his own place within it.
Today's gathering at Costello's Cafe to discuss The Power and the
Glory was spiffy - and we are on to the next book!
Several suggestions were made during this gathering, and since so many
on this list are new to the group, we decided to try out a more
organic, democratic approach to picking next month's book:
Click, or copy and paste, this link
http://www.polldaddy.com/p/959359/
to go to the poll to vote on November's book. You'll notice the title
and a url you can also copy and paste to read more about the books.
Below is also a quick description of each. There will be an "Other",
which will more than likely go into the poll for DECEMBER'S book.
The only thing to keep in mind is that the nature of the book group is
variety, from memoirs and autobiographies, to historical fiction to,
well, whatever... (almost -- the consensus is that romance novels are
out, which I know will disappoint so many of you.) We often pick books
that can be discussed in SOME, even vague, way with regards to
spiritual themes. They do not, however, need to be located in the
"inspirational" section of the bookstore.
We're lookin' to meet Sunday, Nov. 16th, so as to give you guys about
a week to respond to this poll so we can decide the book, venue, so on
and then get the "official" word out from there. Cool?
Thanks guys!
Vivian
Book descriptions:
Option 1: Possession:
An exhilarating novel of wit and romance, an intellectual mystery, and
a triumphant love story. This tale of a pair of young scholars
researching the lives of two Victorian poets became a huge bookseller
favorite, and then on to national bestellerdom. (Soon to be a movie)
Option 2: Silence:
A novel of faith and doubt set in medieval Japan. Endo relates the
history of the Japanese Christians who were persecuted after the rise
to power of the samurai in the 17th century, and in particular the
plight of Japanese priests who were forced to choose between their
identity as Christians and as Japanese.
Option 3: The Know It All
Alarmed and more than a little chagrined at the massive gaps in his
personal knowledge base, Jacobs sets for himself a suitably daunting,
and some might say insane, task: to fill in the holes in his Ivy-
League education by reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The entire
Encyclopaedia Britannica. With endearing wit and a disarming
frankness, The Know-It-All recounts the unexpected and comically
disruptive effects Jacobs's freshly harvested knowledge has on every
part of his life — from his marriage to his sweetheart Julie, to his
complicated relationship with his lawyer father and the rest of his
charmingly eccentric New York family, to his job as an editor at
Esquire.
Option 4: Things Fall Apart:
Achebe's masterpiece tells the story of Okonkwo, strongman of an Ibo
village in Nigeria, as he witnesses the destruction of his culture and
the loss of his own place within it.
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