Hmm, Song Yet Sung does sound interesting to me -- and I enjoyed his first book, The Color of Water. Does anyone know anything about The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian? I've never read his books but I've heard good things about this one. Also, Then It Came to the End has been recommended to me and it's on the NY Times 10 Best Books of 2007 list. Okay, it's now 2am and I am getting very tired -- go to sleep Larry D!
Paula
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Hey Paula: I quit reading after 10 pgs. How about you? Pam
Books being read / discussed
- Pam says "Link to good review about Bolano below"
- www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2007/03/26/070326crat_atlarge_zalewski
- novels of Roberto Bolano--Larry
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Diaz)--Ed
New book nominations
- East is East (T.C. Boyle)
- The Battle for God (Karen Armstrong)
- Divisadero (Michael Ondaatje)
Nominations for Book 3
- Atlas Shrugged -- Ayn Rand
- Honorary Consul -- Graham Greene
- People of the Book -- Geraldine Brooks
- The Double Bind -- Chris Bohjalian
Luncheon of the Boating Party by Susan Vreeland
Hey Paula: I quit reading after 10 pgs. How about you? Pam
Nominations for Book 2
- 1. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Zvi)
unusual words in "Little, Big"
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- Audition by Barbara Walters (PMJ --what can I say? I'm a celebrity junkie)
- American Made: A History of the WPA (lrf)
- Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski (fox)
- Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog (PMJ and Pam)
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Murakami (Zvi: Thanks, Fox)
- The Underground City by H.L. Humes (lrf)
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Pam)
- The Panama Hat Trial by Tom Miller (lrf)
- Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie (ZV)
- Pastoralia by George Saunders (Pam)
Nominations for Book 1
- 7. The Double Bind by Chris Bohjalian (Paula/Pam)
- 6. Song Yet Sung by James McBride (Camy)
- 5. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Camy)
- 4. The Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust (Camy)
- 3. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem (Zvi)
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6 comments:
I just finished Then It Came to the End. I was very disappointed with it. Cannot understand how it got such good reviews.
Fox
I read Midwives by Chris Bohjalian and liked it a lot.* Paula I'm going to nominate The Double Bind b/c it sounds good to me. And I'm going to remove your (accidental?) vote by simply deleting the entire poll and re-posting it. (Note how I didn't use a single comma---an homage to Gertrude Stein about whom I learned a lot reading Sister Bernadette's etc etc). Pam
*Maybe we should have a discussion of "Oprah books." I used to be an Oprah snob (meaning I wouldn't read anything she recommended) but I've changed. I don't read books merely b/c she recommended them but I also don't eliminate books b/c she recommended them.
I've read two books by Bohjalian: Midwives and Trans-Sister Radio. I'm still not certain why I read the second. Although the reviews for Double Bind sound good I'm inclined to prefer something else because this would be the third book by the same author.
BTW, Pam: I'm glad that Gertrude Stein encouraged you to use fewer commas. But what about an "apostrophe s" at the end of "Mrs. Biggs"? (LOL)
That brings me to the next comment: Would anyone be insulted if we took her name off? Even in jest I'd prefer not to see her name every time I look at the blog.
And a final comment: When I was reading Camy's post yesterday I thought "Song Yet Sung" was a Chinese author I was supposed to recognize.
Ed
Is Song Yet Sung out in paperback?
Ed
Mrs. Biggs is OK with me.
Fox
Ed: Strunk and White were gods and I've tended to follow their advice over the years. But I've always disagreed with them on using an 'apostrophe es' when making a possessive of a singular proper noun that ends in 's.' To me, AP style seems much cleaner, much more in keeping with the way we, or at least I, pronounce "Mrs. Biggs' Reading Club." But if you wish to revert to S & W style I shall make the change.
On the larger issue of whether to retire Mrs. Biggs from the name of this blog: We could do another poll! So far we have one vote for keeping her, one vote for ditching her, and my vote for "I really don't care."
Pam
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