Foreign Policy had a heartbreaking photo essay last month on the Arab uprisings called Children of the Revolution. Some of the facts from the piece : In Yemen UNICEF counts at least 19 children who have been killed by both snipers and explosions since early February — an estimated 20% of the total casualties; In [...]
Posts Tagged ‘book club’
The Hunger Games
Posted in What I'm reading, tagged book club, books, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games on April 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Why do people love Stieg Larsson’s novels ?
Posted in What I'm reading, tagged book club, books, New Yorker, Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on February 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This is a question I have been asking myself since I had to read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as part of my book club and was reminded of by a recent article in The New Yorker. Initially I was excited to see what all the fuss was about and why it had sold [...]
Magical thinking
Posted in What I'm reading, What I'm watching, tagged book club, books, Howard Jacobson, Joan Didion, La Boheme, opera, The Finkler Question, The Year of Magical Thinking on December 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“She passed away in a perfected dream of tragic love – consumptive, wet-eyelashed, and as often as not singing her goodbyes to him in phrases borrowed from popular Italian opera.” Julian Treslove in The Finkler Question Completely by coincidence, while I was reading the Man Booker-prize winner, a friend invited me to a fabulous production [...]
When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Posted in What I'm reading, tagged book club, books, David Sedaris, When You Are Engulfed in Flames on September 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This was the latest choice from my book club and although I find David Sedaris funny I had two major issues with When You Are Engulfed in Flames – the format and the subject matter. The book is a collection of essays and I find short stories less satisfying than novels -just as I get [...]
Out Stealing Horses
Posted in What I'm reading, tagged book club, books, Out Stealing Horses, Per Petterson, World War II on July 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“So is there no fact, no event, in our private history, which shall not, sooner or later, lose its adhesive, inert form, and astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean. Cradle and infancy, school and playground, the fear of boys, and dogs, and ferules, the love of little maids and berries, and [...]
Water for Elephants
Posted in What I'm reading, tagged book club, books, Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants on May 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
” I meant what I said, and I said what I meant …. An elephant’s faithful – one hundred per cent !” Theodore Seuss Geisel, Horton Hatches the Egg, 1940 This is the epigraph at the start of my book club’s second choice – Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. It is hard to tell [...]
Guernsey, books and potato peel pie
Posted in What I'm reading, tagged book club, books, Guernsey, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, World War II on March 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Have been reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. This is not something I would normally choose but was picked by my book club and proved to be surprisingly enjoyable. An endorsement on the cover from Elizabeth Gilbert had always caused me to run a mile from this book as I hate memoirs/self-help [...]
