We are now looking for suggestions for books to read.
So far we have the following suggestion:
Bring up the bodiesWorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder
Testament of Jessie LambWorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder
We are now looking for suggestions for books to read.
So far we have the following suggestion:
Bring up the bodiesWorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder
Testament of Jessie LambWorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder
I would like to suggest “The Bees” by Laline Paull. It’s a story about a bee.
I would like to suggest Animal Farm by George Orwell because i think it is one of the greatest examples of satire before the days of spitting image.
I made the suggestion to read ‘Lives of Others’ by Mukherjee. Although it didn’t win the M-B Prize it looks like the one most likely to stimulate an interesting discussion.
The winning novel – ‘Narrow Road to Deep North’ deserved the prize, no doubt but I guess I feel that I already know the story – shoxking, I should think.
I would prefer something more up beat and optimistic.
suggestions (last nights Oct group agreed we should add more suggested reads to the above list, and select some from these at the November meeting):
I’d like to add ‘Stoner’ by John Williams [ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stoner-Vintage-Classics-John-Williams-ebook/dp/B00A8FXT8M/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413299613&sr=1-1&keywords=stoner+john+williams ] ; ‘Pigs Foot’ by Carlos Acosta [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/B00FYRYI5C/ref=sib_dp_kd#reader-link]; and ‘The Inheritance of Loss’ by Kiran Desai [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inheritance-Loss-Kiran-Desai-ebook/dp/B002RI9VYO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413299060&sr=1-1&keywords=the+inheritance+of+loss+by+kiran+desai]
I suggest “Angelmaker” by Nick Harkaway.
I bought it for myself but haven’t started reading it yet. The back cover review by the Sunday Times says “What kind of a mind dreams up Angelmaker … It could only be Nick Harkaway: bonkers, brilliant and hilarious … Clever and entirely fantastic”.
Happy with all of these suggestions – esp the WW1 title, which is rather topical for late summer!
Request for Don: is there is any way of getting a notification of these updates by email?
A couple of suggestions:
1) Tenth of December, G. Saunders
A report in the Guardian, 11th March ’14 announced this book of American short stories as the winner of the ‘Folio Prize’ – an award created by people in the book industry frustrated by perceived shortcomings of the Man Booker.
“In the winner, George Saunder’s Tenth of December, the inaugural judges have recognized one of the great writers of our age and one of the undisputed masters of the form. It’s a brilliant choice which boldly affirms the aims of the prize: to celebrate the most perfectly realized and thrilling storytelling of our time.”
2) Three Day Road, Joseph Boyden.
This is a WW1 novel that describes the reminiscences of an injured Canadian Objiwe Indian while returning home in a canoe having fought at Ypres. (The author is part Canadian native Indian)
I have started this and it’s very good. So I would have to leave the rest while I get on with other things.
Regards
Ben
Further to last night’s meeting, I should like to throw in the following:
either: ‘The Lonely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry’, by Rachel Joyce, or: ‘Instructions for a Heatwave’, by Maggie O’Farrell. Both echo a similar theme, although with very different emphases, so perhaps one of those.
Too much has probably been said and written about Dickens, but with a view to revisiting the classics; what about his last and unfinished novel: ‘The Mystery Of Edwin Drood’, or something on similar lines? Another one I read years and years ago, and loved, was E.L. Doctorow’s ‘Ragtime’. Still about, so obtainable. Cheers, Judy