tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6192367570400409722024-02-20T18:47:33.355-08:00Jim Cragan Memorial Book ClubJeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.comBlogger83125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-15443767516560701682022-03-03T20:45:00.003-08:002022-03-03T20:45:46.941-08:00Blog Back on Track; Local Author Jess Walter<p> I am going to catch up the Read Book List from out book club. I may have missed a couple but we did have a bit of a hiatus due to Covid. Thanks to Maura for now hosting our Zoom meetings.</p><p>For our next book we have selected Jess Walter's Cold Millions. It should be a good one!</p><p>Our last meeting went well and everyone loved The House on the Cerulean Sea. We agreed it was nice to be reading books that are lighter in nature like our last two have been.</p><p><br /></p><p>"The Cold Millions: A Novel by Jess Walter was a sprawling historical
fiction novel taking place in the early 1900s primarily in the state of
Washington as there was a national movement and an uprising of the
unions working for better wages and workers' safety as well as the
continued movement of women's suffrage rights. At the fore of this tale
are the endearing Dolan brothers, Ryan and Gregory, or Rye and Gig."</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLOeUJTjAiuBS88D3UUJ90JncCG3W0bpogPi-KjpLyE-iqx6UeJ_9JpDZ_EqxJwidPZwrwAfOCoiJksfTKU16_wNXsrhejpvy3Vp_-S0eZvZuNNV4-0fudYcEnkTvdyO_c1IpJjat4fukb3yr83CFYoZeZ4ZZbvra8dAw7nhPfzccYBcnSVYnLajx5bA=s110" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="110" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLOeUJTjAiuBS88D3UUJ90JncCG3W0bpogPi-KjpLyE-iqx6UeJ_9JpDZ_EqxJwidPZwrwAfOCoiJksfTKU16_wNXsrhejpvy3Vp_-S0eZvZuNNV4-0fudYcEnkTvdyO_c1IpJjat4fukb3yr83CFYoZeZ4ZZbvra8dAw7nhPfzccYBcnSVYnLajx5bA=w181-h181" width="181" /></a></div><br /><p></p><br /><p><br /></p>Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-52280040584645868022020-12-11T21:40:00.002-08:002020-12-11T21:40:42.413-08:00A Gentleman In Moscow<p> <span style="color: #3d85c6;">Our next read...<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr_JxsWf1hCdmdrG-Ar4OB_MHSjj10ZNVTL-XQs47Bva2UkZvnw_g0xVEsZ4nSKvshrviTprzgqt4D3RErOT6yAWU1YSxwQ3mu6lH6wIWOJ4ETYcAY1TdN-KsVkZ5aeMKMkyDD1Y_vsb58/s293/book1.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr_JxsWf1hCdmdrG-Ar4OB_MHSjj10ZNVTL-XQs47Bva2UkZvnw_g0xVEsZ4nSKvshrviTprzgqt4D3RErOT6yAWU1YSxwQ3mu6lH6wIWOJ4ETYcAY1TdN-KsVkZ5aeMKMkyDD1Y_vsb58/s0/book1.webp" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-15367614729166253812020-12-11T21:35:00.000-08:002020-12-11T21:35:22.912-08:00Some Background On 'Three Men In A Boat' by Jerome K. Jerome<p> (This was pulled from an on-line article by the Guardian)<br /></p><div class="css-1olk8yb"><div class="article-body-commercial-selector css-79elbk article-body-viewer-selector"><p class="css-38z03z"><span class="css-hi9njr"><span class="css-1ljoi60">A</span></span><span class="css-38z03z">n
ancient river. The journey upstream of some impressionable young men
into a mysterious, challenging interior. An inevitable reckoning at the
source. Finally, the terrible return to reality. Here, surely, is
pre-Edwardian English fiction at its classic finest.</span></p><p class="css-38z03z">But this is not <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jan/23/heart-of-darkness-conrad-review" title=""><em>Heart of Darkness</em></a>,
and the river is not the Congo. Actually, it's the Thames, and the
narrator is not Marlow but J, or Jerome, K Jerome. Published in 1889, 10
years before Conrad's novel, <em>Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)</em>,
is one of the comic gems in the English language. An accidental one,
too. "I did not intend to write a funny book, at first," said its
author.</p><p class="css-38z03z">Humour in
literature is often not taken as seriously as it deserves. Nevertheless,
there are a few seriously funny books that remain great for all time. <em>Three Men in a Boat</em>
is one of these. Ostensibly the tale of three city clerks on a boating
trip, an account that sometimes masquerades, against its will, as a
travel guide, <em>Three Men in a Boat</em> hovers somewhere between a shaggy-dog story and episodes of late-Victorian farce.</p><div aria-hidden="true" class="js-ad-slot ad-slot ad-slot--inline ad-slot--inline1 ad-slot--rendered" data-desktop="1,1|2,2|300,250|300,274|620,1|620,350|550,310|fluid" data-google-query-id="CISBifXDx-0CFewhfgodWhkIUw" data-link-name="ad slot inline1" data-mobile="1,1|2,2|300,197|300,250|300,274|fluid" data-name="inline1" data-phablet="1,1|2,2|300,197|300,250|300,274|620,350|550,310|fluid" id="dfp-ad--inline1"><div class="ad-slot__label">Advertisement</div></div><p class="css-38z03z">What's
it all about? Jerome K Jerome would probably say his masterpiece was
"about one hundred and fifty pages", but I would argue that <em>Three Men in a Boat</em>
is about the cameraderie of youth, the absurdity of existence, camping
holidays, playing truant, comic songs, and the sweet memories of lost
time. You could also read it as an unconscious elegy for imperial
Britain. Did I omit to say that it also features a dog named
Montmorency? In short, like all the finest comic writing, it's about
everything and nothing.</p><p class="css-38z03z">Jerome K Jerome is more
or less forgotten now. He was a jobbing freelance literary journalist
who had just got married and needed to provide for his wife and family.
Encouraged by his new wife, Georgina, Jerome intended his account of a
boating holiday to be a popular travel guide for a booming market. In
late-Victorian England there was a vogue for recreational boating on the
Thames between Kingston and Oxford. This was the golden age of the <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.hrr.co.uk/" title="">Henley regatta</a>.
Rowing boats, steam launches, even the occasional gondola: in the
Season, up to 800 vessels a day passed through Boulter's Lock near
Maidenhead. Here was an audience for a new river guide. In fact,
Jerome's descriptions of Hampton Court, Marlow and Medmenham are all
that survive from the original plan for a travel book.</p><p class="css-38z03z">But
something funny happened on the way to publication, perhaps because it
was first serialised in a magazine. Jerome's discursive comic voice took
over. The river journey he makes with his friends George and Harris
(and Montmorency) becomes the narrative line on which he hangs a
sequence of comic anecdotes loosely associated with the journey upriver.</p><p class="css-38z03z">Jerome's
themes are airily inconsequential and supremely English – boats,
fishing, the weather, the atrocities of English food and the
vicissitudes of suburban life – perfectly pitched in a light comic prose
whose influence can be detected later in the work of, among many, <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/pgwodehouse" title="">PG Wodehouse</a>, James Thurber, and <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/nickhornby" title="">Nick Hornby</a>. My favourite Jerome set piece is the episode with the tinned pineapple.</p><p class="css-38z03z">The
three mariners have had a long, hard day on the river. They reach their
evening mooring, dog-tired and ravenously hungry. When George unearths a
tin of pineapple chunks "we felt" writes Jerome, "that life was worth
living after all". They were, he says, all of them exceedingly fond of
pineapple. As the anticipation begins to build, he delivers the most
perfect sentence in a book already buoyant with light comedy. "We looked
at the picture on the tin," writes Jerome; "we thought of the juice."</p><p class="css-38z03z">Then
they discover that they have no tin-opener. What follows is a passage
of comic genius spun from nothing more – or less – than the banality of
everyday life. Read it. This passage ("a fearful battle") comes as the
brilliant climax to chapter 12.</p><p class="css-38z03z"><em>Three Men in a Boat</em>
is one of those rare classics that seems to come, as it were, out of
nowhere, and to defy the odds. Jerome K Jerome later wrote a hit West
End play, <em>The Passing of the Third Floor Back</em>, but he never recaptured the mood of careless comic joy that aerates the pages of his immortal masterpiece.</p><h2 class=""><strong>A note on the text</strong></h2><p class="css-38z03z"><em>Three Men in a Boat</em> began life as a travel commission for the magazine <em>Home Chimes</em>.</p><p class="css-38z03z">Its
author later described what went wrong: "I did not know I was a
humorist," he confessed. "The book was to have been 'The Story of the
Thames', its scenery and history… I never got there. It seemed to be all
'humorous relief'. By grim determination I succeeded, before the end,
in writing a dozen or so slabs of history and working them in, one to
each chapter, and FW Robinson, who was publishing the book serially,
promptly slung them out… From the beginning he had objected to the
[since lost] title , and halfway through I hit upon <em>Three Men in a Boat</em>, because nothing else seemed right."</p><p class="css-38z03z">Jerome
sold book publication rights to the Bristol publisher, JW Arrowsmith,
who had been having a big success with a three-and-sixpenny
single-volume series (including work by Arthur Conan Doyle and Anthony
Hope), a new phenomenon which had begun to supplant the great Victorian
"three-decker" novels. The Education Act of 1870 had created a new mass
readership, and Jerome was eager to reach this new audience. On
publication, however, it seemed as if his cunning marketing plans had
gone awry. He had not allowed for the critics.</p><p class="css-38z03z">Jerome's
fascination with bank clerks and "the lower orders" was denounced up
and down. "One might have imagined," he later wrote in <em>My Life and Times</em>, "that the British Empire was in danger. The <em>Standard</em> spoke of me as a menace to English letters; and the <em>Morning Post</em> as an example of the sad results to be expected from the over-education of the lower orders…"</p><p class="css-38z03z">To
be specific, the reviews ranged from the vitriolic to the merely
hostile. The use of slang was condemned as "vulgar" and the book as a
whole abused as a shameless appeal to "'Arrys and 'Arriets" – sneering
critical terms for working-class Londoners. The magazine <em>Punch</em> dubbed Jerome K Jerome "'Arry K 'Arry".</p><p class="css-38z03z">Typically, the reading public paid absolutely no attention. <em>Three Men in a Boat</em>
went on selling in vast numbers, defying gravity. It was also promptly
pirated by unscrupulous American publishers. In Britain, Arrowsmith told
a friend: "I pay Jerome so much in royalties, I cannot imagine what
becomes of all the copies of that book I issue. I often think the public
must eat them."</p><p class="css-38z03z">The first edition appeared in
August 1889, and remained in print until March 1909, when, after the
sale of some 200,000 copies, a second edition appeared. In his
introduction to this printing, Jerome states that he had probably sold
another million (pirated) copies in America.</p><p class="css-38z03z">The
book was also translated into many languages. The Russian edition was
particularly successful and became a standard school textbook, possibly
as a documentary account of life in the heart of the capitalist empire.
Since its publication, <em>Three Men in a Boat</em> has never been out of print. I'm unashamedly fond of it, and chose it as my "desert island" book on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.</p><h2 class=""><strong>Three more by Jerome K Jerome</strong></h2><p class="css-38z03z"><em>Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow</em> (1886); <em>Three Men on the Bummel</em> (1900); <em>The Passing of the Third Floor Back</em>, stories (1907), the play (1910).</p></div></div><div id="slot-body-end"><div class="css-hr4bqa"><section class="css-q5digb"><br /></section></div></div>Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-79387930266436116942019-03-10T11:09:00.001-07:002019-03-11T18:03:30.815-07:00Article About 1984Most of us read this in High School. There has been so much superficial as well as deep discussion of how it has affected our world view. I thought it would be interesting to read some of these and discuss as well as the novel itself.<br />
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George Orwell's road to dystopia;<br />
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https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21337504Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-44889950028688811122018-12-05T21:32:00.004-08:002018-12-05T21:32:59.583-08:00Alice Munro; Winner of 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.5em;">
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<b>Alice Ann Munro</b> (<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none !important;" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span> <wbr style="display: inline-block;"></wbr><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;"><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></span> <wbr style="display: inline-block;"></wbr><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;"><span title="'m' in 'my'">m</span><span title="/ʌ/: 'u' in 'cut'">ʌ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span></span>/</a></span></span>, <i>née</i> <b>Laidlaw</b> <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/English" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none !important;" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/eɪ/: 'a' in 'face'">eɪ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ɔː/: 'au' in 'fraud'">ɔː</span></span>/</a></span></span>; born 10 July 1931) is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadians" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Canadians">Canadian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_story" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Short story">short story</a> writer who won the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize in Literature</a> in 2013. Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Munro#cite_note-2" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup> Her stories have been said to "embed more than announce, reveal more than parade."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Munro#cite_note-3" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup></div>
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Munro's fiction is most often set in her native <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huron_County,_Ontario" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Huron County, Ontario">Huron County</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_Ontario" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Southwestern Ontario">southwestern Ontario</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Munro#cite_note-4" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></sup> Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Munro#cite_note-5" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a></sup> Munro's writing has established her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction", or, as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Ozick" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cynthia Ozick">Cynthia Ozick</a> put it, "our <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Anton Chekhov">Chekhov</a>."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Munro#cite_note-6" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a></sup> Munro is the recipient of many literary accolades, including the 2013 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize in Literature</a> for her work as "master of the contemporary short story",<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nobelprize.org_7-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Munro#cite_note-nobelprize.org-7" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a></sup> and the 2009 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Booker_International_Prize" style="background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Man Booker International Prize">Man Booker International Prize</a> for her lifetime body of work. </div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-70323991913606090752018-08-31T21:11:00.001-07:002018-08-31T21:11:39.592-07:00October 3rd Book !We will be reading 'I Am The Messanger' by Marcus Zusak. It was recommended by Maura. See all of you in October. Have a good read!<br />
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For seventeen years, I forced myself not to have a favorite book. I loved reading so much, I didn’t want to decide on one in case I read something even better right after. <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/phantom-tollbooth-norton-juster/1100291220?ean=9780394820378" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #d96630; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6; text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Phantom Tollbooth</em></a> came close because it gave me my love of word play, but even still, when asked, I never gave a straight answer. Then I read <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/i-am-the-messenger-markus-zusak/1100619120?ean=9780375836671" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #d96630; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6; text-decoration-line: none;">I Am the Messenger</a>,</em> by <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/contributor/markus-zusak/_/N-2kgz" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #d96630; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6; text-decoration-line: none;">Markus Zusak</a>.</div>
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Many know Zusak as the man who wrote <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/book-thief-markus-zusak/1100189892?ean=9781101934180" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #d96630; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.6; text-decoration-line: none;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Book Thief</em></a>, a very popular selection for summer reading lists that got the movie treatment a few years ago. And I get it. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Book Thief</em> is a great book. It deserves the accolades and attention it has received—but in my opinion, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">I Am the Messenger</em>, which turned 15 this year<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</em> is the YA read you should be picking up.</div>
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-32781548840406021072018-07-19T20:03:00.000-07:002018-07-19T20:03:35.865-07:00August 2018 BookThe River of Doubt; Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard.<br />
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<br />Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-77476573372569162582018-04-28T08:45:00.000-07:002018-04-28T08:45:16.232-07:00Early June Book Club at ARBOR CREST Winery!!We had a very nice time at The Gilded Unicorn followed by the Pie & Whiskey readings at the Washington Cracker Barrel building! So much fun in fact that we decided to try Arbor Crest outside next time. If the weather is bad we have a back up plan; Candace's house. Regardless, her famous applesauce cake will be there! <br />
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We are reading "Guns of the South" by Harry Turtledove. This is an alternative history book about the Civil War. There is one copy in the city library system and one digital copy in county. So.... if you can't find one in one of our local used bookstores then you will have to get a cheap copy from one of the following online source; thriftbooks.com, amazon, betterworldbooks, bookfinder, alibris, abe books. Candace and I already have a copy. We have a 7 week period till book club so order it<br />
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<br />Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-54157595696023626682018-04-24T22:05:00.001-07:002018-04-24T22:05:08.246-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6tR1a6peLv2QZMam77bcxwRRYrmkunJCFbakxfX5LRGVr2S8pyzVl5kFGHRxkIMLoCtXy1b64sWGhK6dJK9fRoP8iB3MaECU56pKxBhEBWtMuMgWEaLl-iw-58MB05RNkZJZ30nKHZ0MR/s1600/Yaa.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6tR1a6peLv2QZMam77bcxwRRYrmkunJCFbakxfX5LRGVr2S8pyzVl5kFGHRxkIMLoCtXy1b64sWGhK6dJK9fRoP8iB3MaECU56pKxBhEBWtMuMgWEaLl-iw-58MB05RNkZJZ30nKHZ0MR/s400/Yaa.jpg" width="400" height="258" data-original-width="610" data-original-height="394" /></a></div>Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-32522746998771915792018-04-24T21:57:00.003-07:002018-04-24T22:06:02.521-07:00HomegoingHomegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Ghana, 18th century: Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the notorious Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and shipped off to America to be sold into slavery. HOMEGOING follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the slave traders of the Gold Coast to the plantations of Mississippi, from the Asantes’ struggle against British colonialism to the first stirrings of the American Civil War, from the jazz of 20th-century Harlem to the sparkling shores of modern Ghana.
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
Publication Date: May 2, 2017
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN-10: 1101971061
ISBN-13: 9781101971062Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-288245923520104452017-12-05T21:19:00.000-08:002017-12-05T21:19:22.419-08:00Martin Marten in January 2018We will be reading Martin Marten by Brian Doyle for the upcoming January Book Club. It will be at Lori's house on Tuesday January 16th.
Martin Marten is a braided coming-of-age tale like no other, told in Brian Doyle's joyous, rollicking style. Dave is fourteen years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as he prefers to call it, like the Multnomah tribal peoples once did, Wy'east).
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KIRKUS REVIEW
Zevin (Margarettown, 2006, etc.) chronicles the life of A. J. Fikry, a man who holds no brief for random acts, who yearns for a distinct narrative, who flounders about until his life is reordered by happenstance.
Fikry owns Island Books on Alice Island, a summer destination off Massachusetts—think Nantucket. He’s not yet 40 but already widowed, his wife, Nic, dead in an auto accident. Fikry drinks. Island Books drifts toward bankruptcy. Then, within a span of days, his rare copy of Poe’s Tamerlane (worth $400,000) is stolen, and 2-year-old Maya is deposited at his bookstore. Fikry cannot bear to leave the precocious child to the system once it becomes apparent her single mother has drowned herself in the sea. He adopts Maya, spurred by her immediate attachment to him. That decision detours "his plan to drink himself to death" and reinvigorates his life and his bookstore. Add Amelia Loman, quirky traveling sales representative for Knightley Press, and a romance that takes four years to begin, and there’s a Nicholas Sparks quality to this novel about people who love books but can't find someone to love. With a wry appreciation for the travails of bookstore owners—A. J. doesn’t like e-readers—Zevin writes characters of a type, certainly, but ones who nonetheless inspire empathy. Among others, there are the bright and sweet-natured Maya, who morphs into an insecure but still precocious teenager; Lambiase, local police chief who finds in Firky the friend who expands his life; A. J’s brother-in-law, Daniel Parish, a once–best-selling author riding out a descending career arc; and Daniel’s wife, Ismay, who sees A. J. as everything Daniel should be. All fit the milieu perfectly in a plot that spins out as expected, bookended by tragedy. Zevin writes characters who grow and prosper, mainly A. J. and Lambiase, in a narrative that is sometimes sentimental, sometimes funny, sometimes true to life and always entertaining.
A likable literary love story about selling books and finding love.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-59204971965780543442017-08-26T06:28:00.002-07:002017-08-26T06:28:08.859-07:00Maise DobbsMaisie Dobbs
Maisie Dobbs
Maisie Dobbs, Psychologist and Investigator, began her working life at the age of thirteen as a servant in a Belgravia mansion, only to be discovered reading in the library by her employer, Lady Rowan Compton. Fearing dismissal, Maisie is shocked when she discovers that her thirst for education is to be supported by Lady Rowan and a family friend, Dr. Maurice Blanche. But The Great War intervenes in Maisie's plans, and soon after commencement of her studies at Girton College, Cambridge, Maisie enlists for nursing service overseas.
Years later, in 1929, having apprenticed to the renowned Maurice Blanche, a man revered for his work with Scotland Yard, Maisie sets up her own business. Her first assignment, a seemingly tedious inquiry involving a case of suspected infidelity, takes her not only on the trail of a killer, but back to the war she had tried so hard to forget.Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-72126777524135147012017-06-24T07:46:00.000-07:002017-06-24T07:46:40.431-07:00Our Next Book is..."As I Lay Dying" by William FaulknerThis is our first book by Faulkner. I have always been meaning to read something by this famous American author and here is my chance. I have had 2 copies lying around in my many stacks of books.
Here is an excerpt about him:
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949
William Faulkner
William Faulkner - Biographical
William Faulkner (1897-1962), who came from an old southern family, grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He joined the Canadian, and later the British, Royal Air Force during the First World War, studied for a while at the University of Mississippi, and temporarily worked for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper. Except for some trips to Europe and Asia, and a few brief stays in Hollywood as a scriptwriter, he worked on his novels and short stories on a farm in Oxford.
In an attempt to create a saga of his own, Faulkner has invented a host of characters typical of the historical growth and subsequent decadence of the South. The human drama in Faulkner's novels is then built on the model of the actual, historical drama extending over almost a century and a half Each story and each novel contributes to the construction of a whole, which is the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County and its inhabitants. Their theme is the decay of the old South, as represented by the Sartoris and Compson families, and the emergence of ruthless and brash newcomers, the Snopeses. Theme and technique - the distortion of time through the use of the inner monologue are fused particularly successfully in The Sound and the Fury (1929), the downfall of the Compson family seen through the minds of several characters. The novel Sanctuary (1931) is about the degeneration of Temple Drake, a young girl from a distinguished southern family. Its sequel, Requiem For A Nun (1951), written partly as a drama, centered on the courtroom trial of a Negro woman who had once been a party to Temple Drake's debauchery. In Light in August (1932), prejudice is shown to be most destructive when it is internalized, as in Joe Christmas, who believes, though there is no proof of it, that one of his parents was a Negro. The theme of racial prejudice is brought up again in Absalom, Absalom! (1936), in which a young man is rejected by his father and brother because of his mixed blood. Faulkner's most outspoken moral evaluation of the relationship and the problems between Negroes and whites is to be found in Intruder In the Dust (1948).
In 1940, Faulkner published the first volume of the Snopes trilogy, The Hamlet, to be followed by two volumes, The Town (1957) and The Mansion (1959), all of them tracing the rise of the insidious Snopes family to positions of power and wealth in the community. The reivers, his last - and most humorous - work, with great many similarities to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, appeared in 1962, the year of Faulkner's death.
From Nobel Lectures, Literature 1901-1967, Editor Horst Frenz, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969
The Wikipedia entry makes for interesting reading; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
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Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-6615687119643044552016-11-18T18:21:00.001-08:002016-11-18T18:21:18.361-08:00Info about Neil GaimanNeil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman[2] (/ˈɡeɪmən/;[3] born Neil Richard Gaiman,[2] 10 November 1960)[4] is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, The Graveyard Book (2008).[5][6] In 2013, The Ocean at the End of the Lane was voted Book of the Year in the British National Book Awards.[7]Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-30982525928629906872016-11-18T18:06:00.003-08:002016-11-18T18:06:37.851-08:00December 2016 Book Club MeetingThe next book club meeting will be on Tuesday December 6th at Julie's house and the book is the following:
The ocean at the end of the lane [LARGE PRINT] / NeilGaiman. There are several copies at in the County Library system so I suspect there are several in the city system as well.
Jeff
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-14884748967081407742016-07-23T08:02:00.001-07:002016-07-23T08:02:39.202-07:00The Nightengale SummaryFRANCE, 1939
In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When France is overrun, Vianne is forced to take an enemy into her house, and suddenly her every move is watched; her life and her child’s life is at constant risk. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates around her, she must make one terrible choice after another.
Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets the compelling and mysterious Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can...completely. When he betrays her, Isabelle races headlong into danger and joins the Resistance, never looking back or giving a thought to the real--and deadly--consequences.
With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah takes her talented pen to the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France--a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime. (less)
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-67970973810449080842016-07-22T14:06:00.001-07:002016-07-22T14:06:02.109-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicruKVAtqHaOls9JKSrkFsNDfTBFnJGXjhgrv4_g_oGuhyphenhyphen1ndnNTYNSECGjgkePQTVIjh0UJD-oWGfm3y4cCsfUHvFv9ho3KyNbXCHrJ9oIg3hFYpVVFjIbra27lyyAYfZiDu-Liov4qX-/s1600/21853621.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicruKVAtqHaOls9JKSrkFsNDfTBFnJGXjhgrv4_g_oGuhyphenhyphen1ndnNTYNSECGjgkePQTVIjh0UJD-oWGfm3y4cCsfUHvFv9ho3KyNbXCHrJ9oIg3hFYpVVFjIbra27lyyAYfZiDu-Liov4qX-/s640/21853621.jpg" width="415" height="640" /></a>Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-50931675292902260642016-07-22T14:01:00.002-07:002016-07-23T08:02:11.391-07:00Time to UpdateOur Book Club at Maura's on Tuesday was small but the discussion was great! Lee brought a family heirloom that just happened to be a coffee table book of Edward Curtis's best photograghs; what a treat! Maura made a great Tiramisu dessert! The next book is "The Nightengale" by Kristin Hannah and will be on Tuesday August 30th at Lee's house. BTW, Maura found out that they have the complete epic series of books by Curtis in the NW room at the main Spokane Public Library. She is trying to organize a time when we can go because it is by appointment only. Send her an email or text if you are interested. I am available next Friday or Saturday (or even this Saturday).
Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-80286993967710376942016-01-31T20:41:00.000-08:002016-01-31T20:41:31.914-08:00Next Book Is.....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinYk6HP-rCqNwJLDhhfE10eH6IMZ7NOfLimbzuTnp1W4Gz1-oIe3YIiJGxxrbvoxYumpWx4bIouaK7_kE3oG_IO-pCHUY-nAWdoRnpSWUtk0zgdUyAlrTcSuyGUeBpQMGbxjtOX1N6oni1/s1600/images+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinYk6HP-rCqNwJLDhhfE10eH6IMZ7NOfLimbzuTnp1W4Gz1-oIe3YIiJGxxrbvoxYumpWx4bIouaK7_kE3oG_IO-pCHUY-nAWdoRnpSWUtk0zgdUyAlrTcSuyGUeBpQMGbxjtOX1N6oni1/s640/images+%25281%2529.jpg" /></a></div>Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-12661014498680430422015-11-10T12:16:00.001-08:002015-11-10T12:16:42.271-08:00Annie Dillard!!!!!!!!!!!http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/0928/Annie-Dillard-Which-5-books-by-this-National-Humanities-Medal-winner-are-must-readsJeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-64319140356031269552015-10-05T16:59:00.002-07:002015-10-05T16:59:18.955-07:00Link to NYTimes review of Olive Kitteridgehttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/books/review/Thomas-t.htmlJeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-619236757040040972.post-56795364238794880482015-09-16T18:25:00.000-07:002015-09-16T18:25:38.312-07:00And the Next Book Is...The next Book Club is at Julie's on October 29th starting at 6:30 or 7 PM. We are reading Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stuart which is a Pulitzer Prize winner!
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II.
Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.
Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, a National Book Award finalist, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).Jeffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07471714117268168213noreply@blogger.com0