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January 10, 2012

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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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

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

Title: Their Eyes Were Watching God Author: Zora Neale Hurston Genre: Literature Publisher: Harper Collins Release Date: 2006-05-30 Pages: 256

Meeting: Friday 21st November 2003

As a first choice for the book club, I choose Zora Neal Hurston’s ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ because of it’s huge influence on other American writers such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Maya Angelou. Hurston’s writing was not as well received by other authors of her time, such as Richard Wright (Native Son &amp

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Leviathan by Paul Auster

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

Title: Leviathan Author: Paul Auster Genre: Fiction Publisher: Penguin Mass Market Release Date: 1993 Pages: 275

Meeting: Thursday 18th September 2003

Benjamin Sachs’ story is conveyed through the eyes of his friend Peter Aaron, a novelist who discovers in the book’s opening pages that Sachs has died in a mysterious bomb explosion. Aaron sets out to write the definitive version of Sachs’ story before the FBI can formulate theirs. Sachs is a writer, a philosopher, a man with loyalties

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The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor

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

Title: The Story of Lucy Gault Author: William Trevor Genre: Cork (Ireland) Release Date: 2010 Pages: 227

Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to abandon. She knows the Gaults, as Protestants, are no longer welcome in Ireland and that danger threatens. She is headstrong and decides that somehow she must force her parents into staying. But the path she chooses ends

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The Outsiders by S E Hinton

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

Title: The Outsiders Author: S. E. Hinton Genre: Classics, Cult Publisher: Puffin HC Release Date: 2002-06-27 Pages: 218

Meeting: Friday 28th November 2002

I watched this film a thousand times as a teenager and had many a daydream that involved Ponyboy Curtis. So when it was my turn to pick a book it was an obvious choice. Written by S E Hinton when she was only 16, that knowledge in itself was enough to make me wonder at the abilities of others.

The Outsiders was written in 1967 and describes the world

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Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo

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

Title: Pedro Páramo Author: Juan Rulfo Genre: Classics, Cult Release Date: 1994 Pages: 124

Meeting: Wednesday 7th October 2003

It has taken me some time to write the review of Pedro Paramo, and I still don’t know what to say. At this stage I can only be brief but feel this book deserves a couple of re-reads.

Juan Preciado, promises his dying mother that he will search for his father, Pedro Paramo. He then embarks on a journey to find the town of Comala, somewhere in

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The Constant Gardener by John Le Carre

Filed under: Bookclub Books,Thriller — The Techie @ 3:07 pm

Title: The Constant Gardener Author: John Le Carré Genre: Thriller Release Date: 2006 Pages: 506

As an avid John Le Carre fan, having read the Spy who came in from the Cold, his latest novel The Constant Gardener, jumped off the shelf at me and begged to be bought! Eager to share his brilliance with the rest of the club I was quite pleased with my choice – oh how wrong could I be.

The Constant Gardener is based in Africa telling the tale

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Atomised by Michel Houellebecq

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

Title: Atomised Author: Michel Houellebecq Genre: Cult Publisher: Random House Release Date: 2001 Pages: 379

Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. Michel is a molecular biologist, a thinker and idealist, a man with no erotic life to speak of and little in the way of human society. Bruno, by contrast, is a libertine, though more in theory than in practice, his endless lust is all too rarely reciprocated. Both are in their

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Back When We Were Grownups by Anne Tyler

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

Title: Back when We Were Grownups Author: Anne Tyler Genre: General Fiction Publisher: Vintage Books Release Date: 2002 Pages: 273

Meeting: Thursday 22nd May 2003

This book sold itself to me on the first line: “Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person” Who hasn’t felt like that at times in their life? The central character Rebecca is 53 and wakes up one day to wonder if her choice of man all those years ago brought her to a life and a personality

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