Next Meeting - Aug 19

Well, the Wallow Fire interrupted our meeting schedule a bit. Between the evacuation and the library's conference rooms being occupied, it's been some time since we met.

We're back in gear now, though, and will meet next on Friday, Aug 19, at 7. Our book is (still) Llosa's Death in the Andes and we're also looking for our next selection or two. Here are a couple of suggestions that Beth mentioned:

Dinaw Mengitsu's (US/Ethiopia) How to Read the Air and Keigo Higashino's (Japan) The Devotion of Suspect X. Sounds like the library has both of these.

Meeting June 17

Our next meeting is scheduled for Friday, June 17, 7 p.m. at the RVPL.

We'll be discussing Mario Vargas Llosa's Death in the Andes.

Hope to see you there ~

May 6 - Next Meeting

Our selection for May is Skippy Dies by Paul Murray, 661 pp. This meeting is scheduled for Friday, May 6 at 7 p.m. (@RVPL). The library does have one copy, although I think most of us have ordered one since it seems to be checked out. The book for June will be Death in the Andes by Nobel Lit Prize winner (know how you love those winners, Alan!) by Mario Vargas Llosa, 276 pp. Used hardcover copies available on amazon starting around a whopping $0.30. Send recommendations for a third (July) selection. I think the title of the one that Carol and I were trying to remember at our last meeting was Cry of the Peacock by Gina B. Nahai - maybe we can add this to our list of possibilities. Everyone welcome, whether you've read the book or not; hope to see you at the meeting.

April 1 - Next Meeting

Yes, our next meeting is scheduled for April 1 (7 pm at RVPL), and we'll be discussing Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay.

For May we'll be reading Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (available at RVPL) and June will be dedicated to recent Nobel Prize for Lit winner Mario Vargas Llosa. We'll be reading his Death In the Andes.

Looking forward to these! Happy late winter/early spring reading, everyone -

Sarah's Key

Well I haven't done this for a long time - read a book in less than twenty-four hours. I think we'll have plenty to talk about with this work . . . on Friday April 1 is it?
 

Similarities?

I was talking w/Ryan about our latest book (I hogged it and just finished so he hasn't read it yet) and he asked if the character was a bit like Lt. Glahn in Pan. I hadn't really thought about that but now that I'm done with the book, I think there certainly are similarities between the two...what do you guys think? Same strange modes of self-expression, self-absorption, juvenility, hostility toward women, neediness? And written around the same time...something to think about.

The next books . . .

We'll be meeting to talk about  As a Man Grows Older by Italo Svevo on Friday 25 February seven o'clock PM at the RV Library. . .

and in March our book will be Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay.