Next book club meeting is 8/15

Hello all, Thank you for last night discussion, it was good and productive.

Next meeting is 8/15 it is not Monday this time, but I would like to keep Monday as a day for the meeting in the future.

We will be reading "Stoner" by John Williams.

Mila posted more books that we were talking about yesterday, they all may be our future candidates, so if you want read them a head and let us know if you want to have it on the club, or just read and enjoy.

One more book to consider is the "The master orphans son" by Adam Johnson

Books we have mentioned

We were talking about several books, some are substantial: Steinbeck East of Eden, Ken Kesey Sometimes a Great Notion. The book highly recommended by my friend is The Tenth of December by George Saunders.
Have a good reading,
Mila

Hello Devochky,

July first is coming up  and I would like to list a few books that I am considering to be our next book.

1. Adam Jonson  "The Orphan Master's Son"
This book received Pulitzer Prize in 2013
It is about life in North Korea

Want to have a book on the Jewish team.2. Allegra Goodman  "The Family Markowitz"

3. Marilynne Robinson  "Housekeeping", "Gilead"
Very good written, about life and relationship in Bible belt

4.  Elizabeth Strout. The Burgess boys
Like her previous book and has good reviews

5. One more book that I can not remember the name,(CRAFT) but will try to find it by Monday 

Information area

·         Author -Emily Rapp      Book-“ The still point of the turning world”

Mother memoirs about having a child with Tay- Sachs disease.

·         There was an article in New Yorker about author  James Salter, very interesting biography.

I took one of his books Light years, very good review from Richard Ford, but I found it boring

Maybe I will try to listen to another book.

·         Author -Orhan Pamuk, I found his main book Snow very boring.

Now I am listening to his The Museum of Innocence, very delightful book, not sure we will discuss it at the club.

·         Author – Kent Haruf, his latest book Benediction, I suggest we take as our book for the month of June. The book club meeting is on June 24.

Writing here about books that we were and are reading at the club, just to have memory and remember in old age.

Also will post some information that I came across in the contemporary literature area, like other books that I read or heard and it seems interesting to me. I would like to encourage you  doing the same.

So far we had 2 book club meeting, today is the third. We meet once a month, usually last Monday of the month, but not always, today is an exception.

·         3/25              

Author -Elena Ferrante    Book- The Days of Abandonment, 2002

·         4/29

Author –Julian Barnes       Book - The Sense of an Ending 2011

·         6/3

Author – Paul Auster   Book –Winter Journal 2012

opening of the blog for Luba's book club

Hello devochky,

This is our book club  blog.

I created it for us to share the ideas connected to our club, like what authors you are suggesting we could read next, so we have a "waiting list", it may be a thought that you have about the book that we discussed before and you did not think about it at the time, or sometimes it is easier to express yourself in writing to make a strong point that you feel that did not get a cross at the meeting, or something like that.