In this meeting Vlad Kovsky did a great job in presenting the best books of 2018 including a short overview of each book and notable critics (+ and -). Then the participants selected the book of next month for the club which is Milkman by Anna Burns.
Booked proposed by Nicole, Angela, Joan, Rosie and Mehran.
1 May2019
Books presented by Angela for selection of next month read
Dec 4: Secret Santa book exchange / end-year party - Gifts exchanged:
Cutting for Stone (Abraham Verghese)
House of Names (Colm Tóibín)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Celestial Bodies (Jokha al-Harthi)
Forest Dark (Nicole Krauss)
Celine: A novel (Peter Heller)
One Hundred Years of Dirt (Rick Morton)
Sacrées sorcières (Roald Dahl)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Stefan Zweig)
The Cellist of Sarajevo (Steven Galloway)
Dec 1st: Secret Santa Book exchange
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