Join us for our next Book Club gathering! The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (336 pages/2019) Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles: famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined […]
Join us for our next Book Club gathering on September 26th. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (2020/430 pages). Winner of the Booker Prize 2020. The 2020 Booker-winning novel could have been called Agnes. The mother of the title character has a tragic nobility to her; you will her not to succumb to drink. Yes, she […]
Join us for our next Book Club gathering on October 31. This month’s book is…Bewilderment by Richard Powell (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (340pp/2021). Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most […]
Join us for our next Book Club gathering on December 5th. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (272pp/2021). Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder […]
Join us for the next Book Club on Tuesday, January 30th. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (2014/400 pages). On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife […]
Join us for this month's Book Club on Wednesday, February 28th. The Flanders Road by Claude Simon (original publication 1960-reprint 2018/192 pages). During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the […]
Join us for the next Book Club on Tuesday, March 26th Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood (1933/280 pages). After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite […]
