Thursday, July 9, 2009

Butterfly in the skyyyyy

Welcome to the (book) club!

The SAGE Social Science Journals crew has started a groundbreaking new book club. As our subhead mentions, we'll be "reading it," as well as discussing it, "it" meaning whichever book happens to have been chosen from the hat that month, possibly more often.

Maybe we'll all update this thing, or maybe we won't, but all I know is that the resident Naysayer of Things said he'd join if someone started such a blog. It's gonna be good, but you don't have to take my word for it!

5 comments:

  1. I can fly twice as high:

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

    A game of Thrones by George R martin

    The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

    The stand by Stephen King, always wanted to read it

    Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer

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  2. I'm working on narrowing the following list:

    Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer

    Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne

    Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

    Procopius, The Secret History

    Guy de Maupassant, A Life or Short Stories

    Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

    Federico García Lorca, Poems

    Luis de Camões, Lusiads

    Something by Fernando Pessoa, whether prose or poetry

    I have also never read The Decameron and kind of want to read it...

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  3. I am so excited! Woo hoo book club!!

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  4. Is it too soon for a book club twitter?

    Sad we didn't get The Decameron, or any of the other selections. They all sounded great!

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  5. Oh, and these were my selections:

    Brooklyn Follies - Paul Auster (picked!)

    Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

    Stone Gods – Jeanette Winterson

    Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman

    Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami

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