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Monday, June 19, 2006

 

Re: Resuscitating Book Club

Apologies for the lacuna in book selection. I submit now these, you gentles.

Kurlansky, Mark.
Salt: A World History.
Penguin Group. 2003.

and / or
Kurlansky, Mark.
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World.
Penguin Group. 1998.
Vince has been going on about
Salt ... ever since he read it when it was new. Someone told me that Salt... is an offshoot of the Cod ... book.

Gardner, John.
Grendel. Vintage Books. 1971.
I've been meaning to re-read this for well, decades now. Will it be as good now as I thought it was then? The current movie is not based on this book. Although there is an animated movie from Australia written by John Gardner called
Grendel Grendel Grendel. Also from iMDB: "In 1982, his novel, 'Grendel', was adapted as a stage play by Indianapolis actor Bart Simpson, who is now the artistic director of
The Blue Monkey Sideshow."

Eliot, George.
Silas Marner.
Dover. 1861.
The Fishing News! Pfft! Let's get it right from the melodramatic source. Lisa Simpson's favorite book. Wait, no. Lisa Simpson's favorite book is
Ethan Frome. Never mind about Lisa. Or the Fishing News. Silas Marner is another one of those Queen Anne waists, threshing in the background, tea and tatting in the parlor, muddy boots, talkity-talk books. I'm sure there's a sexton or two to spare and any number of bloodless parsons.

Flaubert, Gustave.
Madame Bovary
. Dover. 1886.
Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling, daughter of Karl Marx.


Atwood, Margaret. The Blind Assassin. 2001.

I looked at this on a remainder table once and it has been in the back of my mind ever since. Won a prize. Did we do a different book by Atwood?

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