Bookclubbin'
Book clubs. My colleague and soul sister Julia (http://sophisticatedbohemian.wordpress.com) half-heartedly belongs to one, but suggested that the two of us strike up our own, cross-country, just-the-two-of-us book club. She sent me the first installment, David Bergen's "The Time in Between" to read. I'll need to finish my current book first - Philippa Gregory's "The Constant Princess" - but once I'm done that, I'll pick up Bergen's book.
This leads me to ponder what my return pick to Julia will be. There are so many options. But, eureka, I think I've just decided what to recommend. I've read this book a number of times since I stumbled upon it at the Strathcona County Library about a decade ago - I picked it up because of its great cover, which just proves what publishers know, that covers are important! - British author Jonathan Coe's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Coe) "The Winshaw Legacy, or, What a Carve Up".
Coe is critically acclaimed as one of Britain's best "young" (read: under 40, although now he's probably pushing 45) writers, and I'm a huge fan, mostly because he writes satires about Margaret Thatcher's Britain. (I'll forgive him just this once for critiquing the Iron Lady.) So I guess that settles it, "The Winshaw" is my pick. Now I just have to find my copy and mail it to Julia in Toronto. But I'm going to want it back!
This leads me to ponder what my return pick to Julia will be. There are so many options. But, eureka, I think I've just decided what to recommend. I've read this book a number of times since I stumbled upon it at the Strathcona County Library about a decade ago - I picked it up because of its great cover, which just proves what publishers know, that covers are important! - British author Jonathan Coe's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Coe) "The Winshaw Legacy, or, What a Carve Up".
Coe is critically acclaimed as one of Britain's best "young" (read: under 40, although now he's probably pushing 45) writers, and I'm a huge fan, mostly because he writes satires about Margaret Thatcher's Britain. (I'll forgive him just this once for critiquing the Iron Lady.) So I guess that settles it, "The Winshaw" is my pick. Now I just have to find my copy and mail it to Julia in Toronto. But I'm going to want it back!
