Tue 7 Oct 2008
book club
Posted by thejinius under Uncategorized
hey, lets do an online book club! my goal has been to read a book a month (i’m a moderate achiever). i skipped september but kavalier and clay was like 700 pages so that should count as two books. heh.
so this month’s book is american pastoral by philip roth. The last Roth book I read was Portnoy’s Complaint (which was more like Portnoy’s Rant). I thought it was hilarious at first but then fifty pages into it I was like okay, I get it, you wanna get laid and you hate your mother. But American Pastoral is supposed to be the standout of his oeuvre (insert exaggerated French accent here) so it should be good.
if you have any other book recs please let me know! especially books by female writers. it’s a little disconcerting that my bookshelf is dominated by white, male, jewish writers. kinda like my love life. or not.
aaaaaaand scene.

October 7th, 2008 at 11:39 am
I know I’m like 2 years late to the game, but I’m just about to start reading Kite Runner (I read A Thousand Splendid Suns a year? ago and it was fantastic). My sister is currently pushing on me Anne Rice novels… that’s like 10 years late to the game.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
im so down for online book club, esp since i own american pastoral!
October 8th, 2008 at 8:42 am
you know i’m down. ever read “white teeth” by zadie smith? i’m rereading it at the moment and think you’d dig.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Read Paradise by A.L. Kennedy. She’s Scottish. It’s about an alcoholic. I’m not judging.
October 9th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Check out Ruth L. Ozeki — she writes smart contemporary fiction with a sort of environmental/progressive bent.
Also, if you don’t mind things being a tad abstract, Iris Murdoch is the shit.