Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
This book was selected because it won the Booker Prize and only one person in the group had read a Peter Carey book before. Continue reading
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1st Wednesday Book Group
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
Everyone read the book and finished it. The husband Frank was throughly manipulative. The wife April was rather “flakey” and some readers found her very irritating.
The novel, written in 1961, and set in the mid 50’s, really typified the suburban lifestyle of the time – very regimented and very stifling. Continue reading
Last Thursday Book Group
Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy
Overall the group seemed to enjoy the book.
Some comments were: Continue reading
2nd Tuesday Evening Book Group
At the February meeting of the 2nd Tuesday Evening Book Group, Elizabeth Gaskell’s book North and South was discussed.
One group member did not get past the initial opening pages of the book, but all other members enjoyed reading the book.
The theme of the book covers the change of circumstances of the Hale family and their exposure to the northern harshness of industrial life. Continue reading
Wild – a review
Title: Wild: a journey from lost to found
Author: Cheryl Strayed
Katherine’s Pick
Cheryl Strayed has written a mediative and insightful memoir about hiking the Pacific Crest Trail which starts in California and ends in Washington State Oregon, a journey of eleven hundred miles, while carrying a backpack that she nicknames the “Monster” because it is so heavy. Like all good Journey stories, her inner journey is as important as her outer journey. Continue reading