From: Choo, Howard
Sent: Thursday, 6 December 2007 11:25 AM
To: [WL; AC; AB; CM; KC; DP; JF; TV]
Subject: the thieving magpie - exhuming book club
Hallo all,
I think the last consensus date for book club was this Saturday (the 8th), but with that date almost upon us, how is everyone for Saturday the 15th? Assuming the weather holds up, I was thinking perhaps a picnic-y thing beginning early afternoon (say 1pm and make a lunch of it) at the Edinburgh Gardens, but other suggestions are most welcome.
For anyone who has - quite forgivably - forgotten, the current book is Murakami's "Wind-Up Bird Chronicle", which is about solitude, memory, loss (also society, perception, and discoveries), and pasta. It also features metaphysical sex, snatches of opera, recollections of wartime atrocities, a really deep well, beautiful women, near-death experiences, one of the weirdest villains ever, much contemporary anomie, sundry unexpected disappearances, and of course several wind-up birds…all wrapped up in a steam train of a story, natch. What's not to like?
Howard
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