Dear Life – December CC Book Club Selection

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<p>Friday the 13th ended up being a good day :)</p>

<p>Happy with any of the choices, but here are my three:</p>

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<li>The Goldfinch</li>
<li>The Luminaries</li>
<li>Night Film</li>
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<ol>
<li><p>The Luminaries Long, but January is a cold dull month - usually. Just right for a lengthy book.</p></li>
<li><p>The Good Lord Bird</p></li>
<li><p>The Signature of All Things</p></li>
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<p>I’ve read Night Film and liked it and would reread it. **mathmom **pegs it correctly with “it sounds like a bit of a gimmick” but therein lies part of its appeal. Setting’s so well developed that NYC comes across as the main character. LOL </p>

<p>I wanted to read The Goldfinch till I saw the Holden Caulfield mention. I decided to look for myself and couldn’t find it but did find a suggestion to bookend it with Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud. Shudder! Dropped to #5 on my list but I will read it if chosen.</p>

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<p>Well, that turned out to be pretty easy. I didn’t even have to take out my slide rule. The only book that appears on everyone’s list is The Luminaries, so The Luminaries it is! </p>

<p>I’ll start a new thread.</p>

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<p>Thanks, Mary! </p>

<p>The other positive about this book group vs. my real life book group is that most of us actually read the book! We only have six women in our group - the other night two were absent, one had read the first 2/3 of the book, and one hadn’t even started it yet! So the two of us who had read it had to tiptoe a bit to discuss it. We did have a very good discussion - it just wasn’t about the book! Drives me crazy.</p>

<p>The book we read was by a local Western Australia author, Tim Winton. Very evocative of place - his best known book is probably Cloudstreet but I had never heard of him before I came here.</p>

<p>I found the first section of The Goldfinch absolutely gripping. As the book went on, I wasn’t sure if I liked the main character or not - some of his choices are ??? but I think down deep I was pulling for him.</p>

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<p>Thanks to Mary and all who posted. I look forward to The Luminaries. “See” you on Feb. 1.</p>

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<p>Perhaps of interest:</p>

<p><a href=“Alice Munro immortalised on Canadian currency | Alice Munro | The Guardian”>http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/25/books-alice-munro-canadian-currency&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“Alice Munro's Prolific Film Career - WSJ”>Alice Munro's Prolific Film Career - WSJ;