Our beloved optimist extraordinaire, Lori, hosted bookclub despite an early morning departure for Santa Rosa, complete with a genuine Chilean spread (spare partaking of the canned tuna and packaged cookies; a nod to the miners' fare and a great centerpiece).
Most of our large group had read Hector Tobar's "Deep Down Dark:The Untold Story of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free". Our enthusiastic crowd debated the motivations of the miners, discussed their current status and contemplated the authenticity of the movie. The fascination of survival mixed with the reality of the culture gave us much to consider. Kate even gleaned a parallel to the mine in one of our previous read's, "All the Light You Cannot See" in a literary skateboard move whose name escapes me that Julie proclaimed. Our insight is ever expanding.
The next selection to choose will be for our September 25th anniversary celebration. Brainstorming for a special title included:
* "The Wizard of Oz" - Frank L. Baum (suggested because it was thought he wrote it in Coronado; actually was in Chicago!)
http://gapersblock.com/airbags/archives/the_yellow_brick_road_began_in_humboldt_park/
He did write sequels four years later in Coronado
http://gapersblock.com/airbags/archives/the_yellow_brick_road_began_in_humboldt_park/
It would still be fun and we could have a tour on Coronado commemorating Baum's affiliation with the island:
http://www.coronadonewsca.com/coronado_events/oz_con_international/l-frank-baum-s-coronado---a-walking-tour/article_cbdf9da4-1427-11e4-ae20-001a4bcf887a.html
I think there were formal events last August but the above mentioned would be self-guided. Does anyone know of anything different?
* a book from the 1990 - the year of our club's inception. This is quite the list - thank you Wikipedia - and a walk down memory lane. Some ideas include-
- Booker Prize: A. S. Byatt, Possession: A Romance
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Gillian Cross, Wolf
- Iain M. Banks - Use of Weapons
- Hoda Barakat - The Stone of Laughter (حجر الضحك)
- Greg Bear - Heads and Queen of Angels
- Thomas Berger - Orrie's Story
- Louis de Bernières - The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts
- William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach
- Ray Bradbury - A Graveyard for Lunatics
- John Bradshaw - Homecoming
- Tom Clancy - Clear and Present Danger
- Hugh Cook - The Wazir and the Witch and The Wishstone and the Wonderworkers
- Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Waterloo and Crackdown
- Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park
- Jim Dodge - Stone Junction
- Roddy Doyle - The Snapper
- Dominick Dunne - An Inconvenient Woman
- James Ellroy - L.A. Confidential
- John Kenneth Galbraith - A Tenured Professor
- John Gardner - Brokenclaw
- Elizabeth George - Well-Schooled in Murder
- Andrew Greeley - The Cardinal Virtues
- Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Light Years, first of the Cazalet series
- Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter - The Conan Chronicles 2
- Marsha Hunt - Joy
- P. D. James - Devices and Desires
- Robert Jordan - The Eye of the World
- Imre Kertész - Kaddish for an Unborn Child (Kaddis a meg nem született gyermekért)
- Stephen King - Four Past Midnight and The Stand
- Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia
- Joe R Lansdale - Savage Season
- Elmore Leonard - Get Shorty
- Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Ultimatum
- Ian McEwan - The Innocent
- Brian Moore - Lies of Silence
- Bảo Ninh - The Sorrow of War (Nỗi buồn chiến tranh)
- Tim O'Brien - The Things They Carried
- Orhan Pamuk - The Black Book
- Robert B. Parker - Stardust
- Rosamund Pilcher - September
- Belva Plain - Harvest
- Terry Pratchett - Eric and Moving Pictures
- Thomas Pynchon - Vineland
- W. G. Sebald - Schwindel. Gefühle ("Vertigo")
- Lucius Shepard - The Ends of the Earth
- Danielle Steel - Message From Nam
- James Tiptree, Jr. - Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
- Scott Turow - The Burden of Proof
- Andrew Vachss - Blossom
- Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus
- Harry L. Watson - Liberty and Power
- Banana Yoshimoto - Amrita
* our first book, Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove"
*???
Please email your idea and/or vote and I will explore and share.
http://coronadoarts.com/coronado-celebrates-125-1/coronado-celebrates-125-1/
Hopefully, there will be events while we are visiting!
Next month we will meet on the fourth Thursday, June 25th, at Diane's, to discuss Paula Hawkins' "The Girl on the Train".
Happy Reading!
LK
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