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
五月份, Dundas华人小组针对’逃避’这个主题,回顾了自己的阅读,展开了讨论.
有个组员读了一份报纸上关于’人生的七味心药’,很受启发.那就是心善:乐善好施;心宽:宽大为怀;心正:正大光明;心静:静心如水;心怡:怡然自得;心安:安常处顺;心诚:诚心诚意. Continue reading
This month the First Wednesday book club met to discuss Graham Greene’s novel Brighton Rock. This novel has strong characters and covers themes such as Catholicism and self-loathing of the body. Continue reading
The Second Tuesday reading group met in the library recently to discuss Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. All the members fround this book very readable, well written and enjoyable. Continue reading
This is a rather unusual book.
It presents itself as a crime thriller, the story of Tess, a missing young pregnant woman, later found dead in a toilet building, presumably by suicide.
Beatrice, her older sister, didn’t believe it, because it’s totally out of Tess’s character, a life-loving, joyous optimistic person, and because of other suspicious circumstances: there was cystic fibrosis in the family history, so Tess went through a trial test for genetic therapy for her unborn baby – the baby was supposedly cured but died of another disease.
Beatrice tried to unravel all the cover-ups, originally suspecting everyone – the illegitimate father of the baby, the love-struck college student in Tess’s class etc… She ended up finding the real truth: the cure trial test that Tess went through was hijacked by a rogue doctor who did his own genetic enhancement test, then murdered first the baby, then the mother to cover his trail. Continue reading