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January 10, 2012

Timoleon Vieta Come Home by Dan Rhodes

Filed under: Bookclub Books,General Fiction — The Artist @ 3:07 pm

Title: Timoleon Vieta Come Home Author: Dan Rhodes Genre: Fiction Publisher: Harvest Books Release Date: 2004 Pages: 226

Meeting: Monday 26th April 2004

The protagonists of this tale are billed as an aged homosexual composer, his dog and a “mysterious Bosnian”.

Cockroft, a retired composer and socialite, moves in Umbria, rural Italy following ostracism in his native England. Surviving on royalties he lives lonely and secluded life filled with flings, affairs and his dogs. Tomoleon Vieta

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Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Enlightenment — The Historian @ 3:07 pm

Title: Veronika Decides to Die Author: Paulo Coelho Genre: Fiction Publisher: Harper Collins Release Date: 2006-05-23 Pages: 240

Meeting: Tuesday 26th February 2002

Veronika decides to die – but then realises how very precious life is. Although she’s a young girl with everything to live for, Veronika is not happy and feels that the only remedy for her malaise is suicide. But she survives and wakes up in the local lunatic asylum, only to be told that her heart is damaged and she has just days to live

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The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Classics,Irish — The DJ @ 3:07 pm

Title: The Sea, the Sea Author: Iris Murdoch Genre: Classics, Irish Publisher: Penguin Release Date: 1978 Pages: 495

Meeting: September 2002

At the time of choosing ‘The Sea, The Sea’ it was the earliest written book chosen so far for the bookclub (though still in its infancy at 26 years). Written in the late 1970s, it was to be Murdoch’s most lauded – and some would say – most difficult book. I was also surprised that until now, no one had opted for an Irish-born

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The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

Filed under: Bookclub Books — The DJ @ 3:07 pm

Title: The Shipping News Author: Annie Proulx Genre: Classics Publisher: Simon and Schuster Release Date: 1994-06-01 Pages: 337

Meeting: Friday 8th February 2002

For my first bookclub book, I chose ‘The Shipping News’ because it was one of those books that I’d always wanted to read and never got around to. Published in 1993, I took a chance and hoped that no one else had read it (even though it was well known and had scooped up literary prizes aplenty). Luck was with me and only ‘The

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Pure Heart Enlightened Mind by Maura Soshin O’Halloran

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Biography — The Artist @ 3:07 pm

Title: Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind Author: Maura O'Halloran Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Riverhead Books (Hardcover) Release Date: 1995-10-01 Pages: 311

Meeting: Saturday 8th June 2002

The diary entries and letters of a young Irish Woman Maura O’Halloran, written while she received Zen training and worked towards “enlightenment in Japanese Zen Monasteries. While not intentionally written to be read by an audience these personal accounts of one woman’s unusual and courageous life make a fascinating read. Maura

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Schopenhauer’s Telescope by Gerard Donovan

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Historical Fiction — The Writer @ 3:07 pm

Title: Schopenhauer's Telescope Author: Gerard Donovan Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Counterpoint Press Release Date: 2004-05 Pages: 306

Meeting: Thursday 26th August 2004

Like most of the others I found it slow to begin. Donovan won me over from page one with his beautiful writing and description but the characters of the Teacher and the Baker left me cold until at least half way through. I would have been happy to put it down and never finish it until I got closer to the end, but now I’m very glad that I did.

For

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The Dice Man by Luke Reinhart

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Cult — The Artist @ 3:07 pm

Title: The Dice Man Author: Luke Rhinehart Genre: General Fiction Publisher: HarperCollins UK Release Date: 1999-01-01 Pages: 541

Meeting: Saturday 15th February 2003

A cult classic, read by many. Luke Reinhart both the name of the author and the protagonist of this story, is a man who is fed up of his life- he takes it upon himself to find a way out of his same, same, predictable, wife, job 2.blah children life. His solution? Dice life.

As Luke spins his home grown philosophies and psychological theories you find

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The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Biography — The DJ @ 3:07 pm

Title: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby Genre: Biography & Autobiography Publisher: Vintage Release Date: 1998 Pages: 131

Meeting: Sunday 19th September 2004

Earlier this year on holidays, I was sharing a room with a friend who was reading The Diving-bell and the Butterfly. This proximity and much lolling around gave me an insight into how a book can literally make you think out loud. Maybe if I hadn’t been there, she would not have articulated – involuntarily anyway – how it made her

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East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Classics — Femmes @ 3:07 pm

Title: East of Eden Author: John Steinbeck Genre: Classics Publisher: Penguin Release Date: 2002 Pages: 601

Meeting: Friday 30th July 2004

The top scoring Bibliofemme book to date, John Steinbeck’s East of Eden certainly has made a strong impression on the femmes.

Where to begin? There are many levels one can analyse this novel. Classic or no? The best of Steinbeck? Life changing? Did Steinbeck accomplish the daunting task that he set out to do? What

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Embers by Sandor Marai

Filed under: Bookclub Books,General Fiction — The Connoisseur @ 3:07 pm

Title: Embers Author: Sandor Marai Genre: Fiction Publisher: Vintage Release Date: 2002 Pages: 213

Meeting: Saturday 29th January 2005

Two best friends grow up together in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the early 1900s. As young boys, they were inseparable in the military academy. The boy from the privileged background was destined to become Army General and the other, well, he was always destined to be different, and never did quite fit the military mould. The rich lad pleasured

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