February Reading list
Here’s Pam’s book selection for February 2011. We’ll be choosing our book from this list on January 27th at The Walk Cafe. We look forward to seeing at the first book club.
Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
As a young man, Jacob Jankowski was tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. It was the early part of the great Depression, and for Jacob, now ninety, the circus world he remembers was both his salvation and a living hell.
Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
Amazon Best of the Month, August 2010: Welcome to the day after tomorrow. In Gary Shteyngart’s near-future New York, the dollar has been pegged to the yuan, the American Restoration Authority is on high security alert, and Lenny Abramov, the middle-aged possessor of a decent credit score but an absurdly low–and embarrassingly public–Male Hotness rating, is in love with the young Eunice Park. read more
Sue Eckstein, The Cloths of Heaven
In this assured début about loneliness and passion in Africa, Sue Eckstein enthrals with a deliciously intricate plot, compelling characters and razor-sharp dialogue. West Africa in the early 1990s. Isabel Redmond is tiring of her iconoclastic husband’s penchant for pendulous black breasts; the High Commissioner and his wife Fenella are both enjoying illicit affairs;
Tom Connolly, The Spider Truces
Ellis is obsessed by the spiders that inhabit the crumbling house where he lives with his dad, his older sister and Great-aunt Mafi – and also by a need to find out more about his mother, whose death overshadows the family’s otherwise happy existence. He is a sensitive soul; awkward and out of place most of the time but funny, too, and with an embarrassing habit of speaking his thoughts aloud
Tom Vowler, The Method
The characters in this award-winning debut collection are very good at losing things: children, lovers, hope, the plot. They discover the past is not a place easily escaped from, as it pursues them with startling, sometimes horrifying, consequences.
Tatjana Soli, The Lotus Eaters
In the final days of a falling Saigon,The Lotus Eaters unfolds the story of three remarkable photographers brought together under the impossible umbrella of war: Helen Adams, a once-naïve ingénue whose ambition conflicts with her desire over the course of the fighting; Linh, the mysterious Vietnamese man who loves her, but is torn between conflicting loyalties to his homeland and his heart
Feel free to leave a message, vote on your choice or make a suggestion for another read. Better still come along to the first Walk Cafe Book Club on January 27th at 6.30 for 7pm. It’s going to be a first great night.
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