November meeting
Our October meeting was a bit of a bust. Only 3 members came to Isabelle's, but like I've always said, you only need two readers to have a book club, right? :) Sorry for the last-minute date change. I'm sure that had a deleterious effect.
Our November meeting is the 16th. Since we have just 3 weeks to read this time, I selected the shortest book that many of us expressed interest in reading. This was a suggestion from Annette a couple months ago, and it has 239 pages. All the others we've voted on, that have been popular, were more than 400 pages long. During our November meeting, we will decide what book to read for January. December there is no meeting, but all are welcome to the Café et Conversation holiday party.
'THE READER" by Bernhard Schlink
Description:
For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems.
Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal. Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense. But then suddenly, and terribly, it does - Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime, she is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret.
Link: http://amzn.to/1wuREA8
We don't have a location for this meeting yet, so if you are interested in hosting, email me. If no one emails me, we'll do it at my place in Junas.
Our November meeting is the 16th. Since we have just 3 weeks to read this time, I selected the shortest book that many of us expressed interest in reading. This was a suggestion from Annette a couple months ago, and it has 239 pages. All the others we've voted on, that have been popular, were more than 400 pages long. During our November meeting, we will decide what book to read for January. December there is no meeting, but all are welcome to the Café et Conversation holiday party.
'THE READER" by Bernhard Schlink
For 15-year-old Michael Berg, a chance meeting with an older woman leads to far more than he ever imagined. The woman in question is Hanna, and before long they embark on a passionate, clandestine love affair which leaves Michael both euphoric and confused. For Hanna is not all she seems.
Years later, as a law student observing a trial in Germany, Michael is shocked to realize that the person in the dock is Hanna. The woman he had loved is a criminal. Much about her behaviour during the trial does not make sense. But then suddenly, and terribly, it does - Hanna is not only obliged to answer for a horrible crime, she is also desperately concealing an even deeper secret.
Link: http://amzn.to/1wuREA8
We don't have a location for this meeting yet, so if you are interested in hosting, email me. If no one emails me, we'll do it at my place in Junas.
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