“Shadow Country,” book for January 2009

 
Our book club is reading Peter Matthiessen’s “Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend” for January 2009.
Judges for the National Book Award honored a comeback on November 19, 2008, giving the fiction award to Peter Matthiessen’s “Shadow Country,” a thorough revision of a trilogy of novels from the 1990s. Matthiessen, 81, last won [...]

Discussion about “American Lightning”

                                        What makes a book good?  That’s one of the questions we asked at book club last night (after we’d asked about what was on the menu at Yia Yia’s.)  We’ve asked this same question throughout the more than twenty years I’ve been in this book club, and I’m sure it was one of the [...]

Ghostwalk, the book for December 2008

Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. British historian Stott makes a stunning debut with this hypnotic and intelligent thriller, the first fiction release of a new Random House imprint. The mysterious drowning death of Elizabeth Vogelsang, a Cambridge University scholar who was almost finished writing a controversial biography of Isaac Newton, leads her son, Cameron Brown, [...]

Book A Minute

Our blogging friend at www.19thcentury.wordpress.com, a blog about the Victorian era, told us about a website that summarizes a long list of classics in just a minute each!  Go to www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml.  Okay, so you’ll miss a few details and all of the romantic or dramatic touches.  But think of how much time you’ll save! Cathy