We were a smallish group on Thursday night. Too bad everyone couldn't be there as we had a really fruitful evening. Thank you Maureen for hosting, and particularly for all your work in compiling our archive.
The consensus about Visitation was definitely positive. It was suggested that Erpenbeck's first book, The Old Child and Other Stories might be worth seeking out. It's available at the TPL.
We established some dates and locations for the next couple of meetings, skipping over December this year. On January 5th, 2012 we'll be at Wanda's house and the book will be A World Elsewhere by Wayne Johnston. In February we're reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I hope someone will let me know if we chose a date and location - I don't have it in my notes (maybe we left it open?).
Also mentioned were a number of interesting books, perhaps for future dates, including:
- Cocktail Hour under the Tree of Forgetfulness by Alexandra Fuller
- Sanctuary Line by Jane Urquart
- Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
- The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
- The Free World by David Bezmozgis
- Divisidero by Michael Ondaatje
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Breath by Tim Winton
- The Water Man's Daughter by Emma Ruby-Sachs
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
