Comments on A Light Inside: Top Ten Tuesday: Great Book Club Picks

The Fall is one of my favorites for discussion, be...

2012-02-02T10:01:11.545-08:00

The Fall is one of my favorites for discussion, because of the nature of the speaker, and because Camus uses such a wretched person to defend the dignity of humanity. The writing is interesting, very good, and not as despair-inducing as The Stranger.

James Joyce's Dubliners is fascinating too. A collection of short stories, with a shared sense of place.

I'm reading "The Awakening" again, by Kate Chopin. I don't like it, but it would be a really interesting book for a bunch of Catholic women to read and react to. The heroine is kind of unattractive to me, and her choices disturb me, but the feel of the book, what it's trying to draw out is very interesting. Especially if you can find the version with "notes on Southern Womanhood & common practices" at the end.

I think it would also be interesting to read "Real Food", by Nina Planck (?)..about eating real, naturl food...can you tell I really want a book club?!

I'll suggest two books. Fiction: The Speed of...

2012-02-01T21:59:00.561-08:00

I'll suggest two books.

Fiction: The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon. I love this Hugo Award (or was it the Nebula?) winning book and it has a sweet surprise in what motivates a decision.

Nonfiction: Packing for Mars by Mary Roach. What does it take for humans to live in space? Hilarious, informative, and a bit gross (space toilets!), it's utterly entertaining. Roach was in Spokane in October; she was a delight, and answered my own two burning questions.

--Arabella

I will! We miss you, too. :S

2012-02-01T10:37:17.870-08:00

I will! We miss you, too. :S

Oh I miss book club! Thanks for bringing back good...

2012-02-01T07:33:57.403-08:00

Oh I miss book club! Thanks for bringing back good memories. Tell everyone I say hello.