Thursday, June 19, 2008
June book: the Emporer's Children by Claire Messud
Great group this months discussing the Emporer's Children. We were all taken by the excellent wrting and the story however spending a lot of time with the characters seemed painful. Was this a device to make her point? why did Messud torture us with these characters? The finale pulled the book together and left us questioning a time in history and a certain priveledged group of people.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
March book: "What is the What" by Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng
A memoir of one of the "Lost boys" of Sudan - refugees fleeing the violence of southernSudan in the 1980s making their way to refugee camps in Kenya and eventually to the United States.
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