Be diverse
At the bookclub we have had to look for books written by women, seeing that most of the books we read were written by men, which responds to the actual publishing situation. We also had to find books set in … Continued
BookClubTDB Donation 2020 – Books
Milkman by Anna Burns, 2018, 368p, Man Booker Prize 2018In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother from discovering her maybe-boyfriend and to keep everyone in the dark … Continued
Donació BookClub 2019
Avui és 23 d’abril, Diada de Sant Jordi, i al BookClub (club de lectura en anglès) de la Biblioteca Mestra Maria Antònia, estem de celebració, doncs estem en plena lectura de la segona part de la 7a Donació BookClub, que … Continued
Possible books for 2019
The Sellout by Paul Beatty, 2015, 304p, Man Booker Prize 2016 Raised in the “agrarian ghetto” of Dickens–improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.–the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: “to … Continued
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Harper Lee’s novel Go Set a Watchman. I admire her adept ability to create characters that become vividly alive and many of them lived in my head long after I finished the book. An impressive quality … Continued
Newsletter 102: The Angel Esmeralda
Summary of the meeting For the last BookClub of the year, we have read The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo, a collection of 9 stories written between 1979 and 2011. We discussed them one by one, presented by one of … Continued
The Angel Esmeralda by Don DeLillo
I tried really hard to find interesting aspects of these nine short stories to comment on and found very little. I enjoyed “The Angel Esmeralda” as the two nuns debate whether what the public were imagining to be an angel … Continued
Newsletter 1: Animal Farm
Summary of the meeting For the first BookClub in Calafell we have read Animal Farm by George Orwell, an allegorical fable about a farm whose animals revel to the human owner and run the farm. Trying to think about the … Continued
Newsletter 101: The Colossus of Maroussi
Summary of the meeting On the first Friday of November we had our 101st book club in which we discussed The Colossus of Maroussi by English author Henry Miller. Even if it was a hard book for everyone, including natives, … Continued
The Colossus of Maroussi by Henry Miller
This book represented for me the essence of a person searching to find his true self. Henry Miller had the courage to record his journey of coming to terms with his beliefs, values and philosophical views of life, of society, … Continued