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One of my favorites as well. And I, too, didn't read it until recently!
Book Concierge wrote: "Lara wrote: "So I'm reading Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo and something happened that I don't think has ever happened to me while reading before....."It's a powerful book .... ..."
Yes it is. I'd heard so many great things about it that I finally decided now was the time.
So I'm reading Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo and something happened that I don't think has ever happened to me while reading before...I was so horrified and upset after reading a particular chapter that I had to put the book down and stop reading. It's a good book but wow...it's horrifying! I'll pick it back up again maybe later today or tomorrow at the latest, but I needed a break to process. That's never happened to me before!
Description from Goodreads:"Considered by some to be her finest work, Edith Wharton's "Summer" created a sensation when first published in 1917, as it was one of the first novels to deal honestly with a young woman's sexual awakening. "Summer" is the story of proud and independent Charity Royall, a child of mountain moonshiners adopted by a family in a poor New England town, who has a passionate love affair with Lucius Harney, an educated young man from the city. Wharton broke the conventions of woman's romantic fiction by making Charity a thoroughly contemporary woman--in touch with her feelings and sexuality, yet kept from love and the larger world she craves by the overwhelming pressures of environment and heredity. Praised for its realism and candor by such writers as Joseph Conrad and Henry James and compared to Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," "Summer" was one of Wharton's personal favorites of all her novels and remains as fresh and relevant today as when it was first written."
You have all of November to read the book and then we'll start discussion in December in this folder. Just like last time, all the discussion questions will be SEPARATE topics under this folder.
No discussion questions will be posted until December.
***We set these discussion questions up with the assumption that members have read the book and are ready to discuss all aspects of it. Feel free to read through or participate in the discussion even if you have not finished the book, but know that there will likely be spoilers.***
Well it's done...Summer by Edith Wharton is our Nov-Dec Group Read!
I've started a new FOLDER for this read and posted a short description of the book. No discussion questions will be posted until December so we have time to read! :)
Just one more day to VOTE!!
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer★★★ 1/2
Honestly, I have no idea what I just read but it was very interesting!
I can't even summarize the book because it's so beyond me. Basically a group of women (nameless women as they are referred to only by their job titles: the biologist (the narrator), the surveyor, the psychologist, and the anthropologist) are sent into Area X to observe. No one knows what Area X is or how it came about, it's a mystery as to how one even "crosses the border" into Area X, but they are the 12th group to try and explore it. Or are they?
And that's really all I can explain...
This book was very different than all the other dystopian novels I've read. It has a lot to do with biology and you're never quite sure what is real and what is not. The biologist is an unreliable narrator because it seems that half the time her mind may be playing tricks on her. Did she really just see a dolphin with the eye of a human? Who knows! A few words I can think of to describe Area X are odd, creepy, and haunting. This book is the first in a trilogy so I now have to read the other books in order to try and figure out what is actually going on. The writing was very good and the pace and plot kept me going, hoping with each new page I'd understand what was happening. Alas I never got to that point. But I'm intrigued to say the least!
We LOVE the classics, but it's not all we read!Please leave your reviews of books that are NOT classics here!
If you read a book that IS a classic (Originally Published BEFORE 1950), please put that review as a NEW topic in the CLASSICS review folder.
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I have 6 nominations as of now. Just one more day to get your nominations in! Then the voting starts :)
I keep wanting to try another Dickens but I always seem to have trouble with him. The only book of his I've really enjoyed was A Christmas Carol. His long novels just seem to drag to me.
Terris wrote: "Lara wrote: "Finished two books on my honeymoon: Modern Romance and Mudbound. Got back Saturday and I'm almost finished with my third: [book:Triumph: The Untold Story..."I agree. It was very interesting!
4 nominations...let's get some more!
Well we just got a new bookcase gifted to us by a family friend...so I HAVE to buy books to fill it! That's what I tell myself anyway. I do use the library a lot too though. And I almost always buy my books at second hand stores. Keeps costs down a bit.
We've received 3 nominations so far...keep them coming! :)
Mark wrote: "Rashkolnikov is not a carefree murderer. It is possible that had he only killed the wicked pawn-broker he might have felt differently and cashed in the lucre. The accidental murder of Lizaveta make..."That's an interesting observation. Do you think this book would have gone a lot differently if he only killed the pawn-broker?
Joanna wrote: "I would like to nominate Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf"Joanna, please PRIVATE MESSAGE me your nomination. That way everything remains a secret until it's time to vote.
Also, we have already read Mrs. Dalloway as a group. If you're curious about all of our previous group reads, just check out the group's bookshelf.
Thanks!
I hope everyone had a good time reading Crime and Punishment for our most recent group read. The discussion is still going on so hop on over there!Anyway, I figured now would be a good time to get some nominations from the group for our next read (November-December).
A few requirements for this round of nominations:
1) The book must be at least 50 years old (so published no later than 1966); and
2) The author must be a female (just because we've had a few males in a row).
***So, please send me a private message with your nomination. Please don't reply to this post with your nomination as I would like to keep the nominations private until it comes time to vote.***
Make sure that you provide a link to the book as well as the author (e.g. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen) so that I know that I am putting the right book up for the vote,
Nominations will run through Friday, October 7, then I will set up the vote.
If you have any questions please feel free to ask here or to send me a message and I will get back to you as soon as I can.
Remember to PRIVATE MESSAGE me your nominations. Thank you. If you're wondering which books we've previously read as a group, feel free to look in the group's bookshelf: Previous Group Reads
Terris wrote: "Lara wrote: "The Girls by Emma Cline★★★
Evie Boyd is 14 years old and living in a rural town in California. Her parents recently divorced and she is basically trying to find herse..."
Yeah, I read it for my F2F book club and not a single member of our group liked it much either.
