Hi all - I want to read Kingsolver's new book but not in hardcover. Barb, I know you picked this book but I really think we should stick to softcovers - the hardcovers are too expensive. I checked out the library and the wait list is really long. I know you said you got yours in Costco but I don't shop there -
Isn't there a softcover book we could read instead this year and read Kingsolver's book when it is in softcover in a year or so?
What do you think? Can we discuss this at our next meeting?
wendy
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Hi Everyone,
ReplyDeleteI wish we had continued this conversation at the meeting. We could have come to agreement already. The only comment I heard was that Deidre liked Barbara Kingsolver.
Is not shopping at Costco a philosophical statement or an availability one. I am happy to buy the books for folks if it is a convenience comment. I wasn't at the meeting where 'no hardcovers' was discussed so my choice is an innocent one. We will have to 'blog' decisions from now on, too, to make sure we are all on the same page.
Has anyone else already purchased the book? I am fine either way. My feelings will not be hurt if the decision is for another book although I may need help choosing, as my reading beyond book club these days remains work related.
Enjoy your weekends everyone.
B
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.“The novel achieves a rare dramatic power...Kingsolver masterfully resurrects a dark period in American history with the assured hand of a true literary artist.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review)).2
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.Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is mostly a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salomé. From a coastal island jungle to the unpaved neighborhoods of 1930s Mexico City, through a disastrous stint at a military school in …
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Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is mostly a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salomé. From a coastal island jungle to the unpaved neighborhoods of 1930s Mexico City, through a disastrous stint at a military school in Virginia and back again, his fortunes never steady as Salomé finds her rich men-friends always on the losing side of the Mexican Revolution. Sometimes she gives her son cigarettes instead of supper.
He aims for invisibility, observing his world and recording everything with a peculiar selfless irony in his notebooks. Life is whatever he learns from servants putting him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Making himself useful in the household of Rivera, his wife Frida Kahlo and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, and the howling gossip and reportage that dictate public opinion.
A violent upheaval sends him north to a nation newly caught up in the internationalist good will of World War II. In the mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina, he remakes himself in America's hopeful image. Under the watch of his peerless stenographer, Violet Brown, he finds an extraordinary use for his talents of observation. But political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach-the lacuna-between truth and public presumption.
This is a gripping story of identity, connection with our past, and the power of words to create or devastate, unfolding at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost.
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I have been rethinking this. I will pull La Lacuna as my read. The group did make a 'no hardcover' decision. Let's stick with it!
ReplyDeleteI will pick something else and let you all know asap.
Thanks for holding to the decision, Wendy.
B
Okay, I am good either way but I do have the book already from Costco. I was thinking that if you needed choices, Barb, I am reading The Black Spruce written by the Three Day Road author Joseph Boyden and I am enjoying it! I remember Lori saying she had read it also. For what it's worth...
ReplyDeleteSome other titles for consideration
ReplyDelete1. White Tiger by Aravind Adiga story of how a man became a success in India - dark comedy,
2. The Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, Non fiction, Karen had chosen Tipping Point once but we didn't read it. This is his more recent book though there is another after this. easy read, and some compelling info.
3. Olive Kitteridge - though Diane didn't like it it may be an interesting book club conversation I haven't got the author's name.
4. Rockbound by Frank Parker Day. Did we ever read this together? It is a classic Canadian novel I think on one of the first Canada Reads. I really liked it but I am a bit of a sucker for early Canadian stuff!
5. Black Spruce, too, is a good read and in paper back.
Thought we might like other title suggestions, but I am good with whatever Barb chooses