The Pulitzer Prize for fiction is an award “for distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life”. Past winners include Cormac McCarthy, Jeffrey Eugenides, Philip Roth and Toni Morrison.
This year the committee has not given the award to any of the finalists. Continue reading
The Second Tuesday Book Club met recently in the library to discuss Anne Bronte’s novel Agnes Grey. They found it to be a good read – not enjoyed as much as other Bronte novels, but gave an insight into women and the lot of those who were educated with little means of support. Agnes gives us an understanding of the position of governess in wealthy and / or upper class homes.
The Last Thursday Bookclub recently met to discuss Hanna’s Daughters, a story of three generations of Swedish women. Three generations of women trying to understand their lives and the lives led by the generations before them. Continue reading
The first sentence of Mary Robinette Kowal’s ‘Regency fantasy’ novel, ‘Glamour in glass’, disappeared during typesetting, and was only discovered after printing was complete. Rather than collapse in despair, she’s taken some interesting approaches to managing the situation, and thanks to the publicity generated, may well do even better out of it than otherwise! Continue reading
Cockroach is Rawi Hage’s (Winner of the 2008 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award) second novel; it takes place during the cold winter of Montreal where the reader will take a journey into the mind of a disturbed, unnamed Middle-Eastern man with suicidal tendencies. Continue reading