I don’t participate frequently enough in the book club to feel I’m entitled to any vetoes, but I did want to offer a couple of opinions, for whatever they’re worth. I’m a big fan of Ishiguro’s previous work, but I simply hated The Buried Giant, and I truly believe a majority of the CC book clubbers would feel the same. I’m also one of the small minority that was not at all taken with Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend. I felt the language had the awkardness I often find in translated work and the story was plodding.
For the next selection, I’d like to read a classic, something that would never happen in my IRL book club, or perhaps a piece of non-fiction (has that ever been done?).