English-speaking reading group in Torredembarra, Calafell and Cunit.
The Power by Naomi Alderman, 2016, 288p, Women’s Prize for FictionIn The Power the world is a recognisable place: there’s a rich Nigerian kid who lounges around the family pool; a foster girl whose religious parents hide their true nature; … Continued
L’any 2020 ha estat un any estrany per tots. Al BookClubTDB (club de lectura en anglès) de la Biblioteca Mestra Maria Antònia de Torredembarra, també hem hagut d’ajustar-nos. Per una banda, fent les tertúlies online, sense poder compartir el te, … Continued
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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