Next Book Club: 23rd Feb at The Noble, 8pm: A Tale for the Time Being

Luirette

We'll be returning to The Noble pub, opposite Crouch Hill Station for this meeting, hoping for a quiet table.<br>New members always welcome!<br><br>This month's book will be Booker short-listed 'A Tale for the Time Being' by Ruth Ozeki. <br>432 pages. Be prepared for some Japanese surrealism...<br><br>Guardian Review introduction:<br>If a Japanese-American writer who is also a Zen Buddhist priest wrote a post-Japanese tsunami novel, what themes might you imagine she would address? Biculturalism, water, death, memory, the female predicament, conscience, the nature of time and tide? Tick. All there. Throw in the second world war, the reader-writer relationship, depression, ecological collapse, suicide, origami, a 105-year-old anarchist nun and a schoolgirl's soiled knickers, and you have Ruth Ozeki's third novel, <em>A Tale for the Time Being</em>.<br><br><img class="decoded" alt="http://www.themanbookerprize.com/sites/default/files/images/books/27.Ruth Ozeki-A Tale For The Time Being.jpg" src="http://www.themanbookerprize.com/sites/default/files/images/books/27.Ruth Ozeki-A Tale For The Time Being.jpg" height="346" width="223"><br>

Jenny

Really enjoying this so far. I got in from the last meet and realised we already had it at home. 

Luirette

That's handy! Think I'd better start rereading it as it's been a couple of years.

Ullswater

For those of you who have completed reading the book, this article is quite topical.  Don't read if you haven't finished it.<div><br></div><div>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/21/internet-shaming-lindsey-stone-jon-ronson<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>;

hannah

Sorry I haven't been since Christmas. I work evenings on Mondays now. Will hopefully make a future date if on another day. Hannah

sophie

I don't know how I managed this but I convinced myself book group was next week. Therefore am now double booked and only 1/3 through reading it! Sorry not to make it, hope you have a good chat. I read that Jon Ronson article at the weekend but can't work out how it might apply to the rest of the book... intriguing! Will have to finish it and see. Can we do something old next? : )

Luirette

That's too bad Sophie. Got a suggestion for the next book club? Hannah, we'll try and avoid having On a Monday so that you can come. Interesting article! Hopefully see the rest of you tonight at The Noble.