This week the Second Tuesday Book Club met to discuss Jonathan Franzen’s novel The Corrections. Each character has some aspect of their lives they wish to “correct”, hence the title. One reader thoroughly enjoyed the book and felt the dissection of the family was very well done. Others struggled to engage with the book and it took a long time to get through. Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2012
The forgotten affairs of youth – a review
Title: The forgotten affairs of youth
Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Yan’s pick
In comparing with his other series, such as ‘The first lady detective’, this series of ‘A Isabel Dalhousie novels’ are very different. They are always set in cosyEdinburgh, with a woman ethics philosopher, Isabel Dalhousie, as the main character. She lives with her younger lover Jamie and their lovely baby son in a comfortable house. Continue reading
From the holy mountain – discussion notes
This Wednesday the reading group has discussed the book ‘From the holy mountain‘ by William Dalrymple. Continue reading
Orange Prize Winner for Fiction
This year Orange Prize Fiction winner goes to American author Madeline Miller for her novel ‘The Song of Achilles ‘.
Dream – National Year of Reading June Theme
National Year of Reading June theme is dream. We’ve made up some fiction and non fiction lists for book lovers.
Reading is a way of dream something? maybe. It doesn’t matter what you read and in what language, reading brings the joy and pleasure. So we want to post some suggestions to Chinese community in their own language.
Enjoy reading.