Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Welcome New Member, and June's book

I'd like to welcome Priti Johari to our Rekindled Book Club!! Priti has just finished an intense 1 yr Master's program at Harvard, and will be getting married next month to her Harvard-professor-fiance (wowsers!) ... and will be joining our book club!

Just wanted to double check on what was the status for our next  book -- 'Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter' by Tom Franklin. When is that supposed to be due by?

Let us know, and let's Rekindle the bookclub again!!

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9 comments:

  1. VaishaliJune 1, 2011 at 10:26 AM

    Great! Welcome, Priti!

    I'm fine with "Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter", but if anyone has a book they've heard something about, I usually prefer personal recommendations. If not, let's start this book and be done with it by the end of June. I personally am reading other things as well so let's keep it to be one book per month. Let's decide the book within the next 2 days though, so we can get started on it assuming its a slow read and will take the full month.

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  2. SLP Social GroupJune 1, 2011 at 1:01 PM

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  3. pritiJune 1, 2011 at 1:02 PM

    Thanks for the introduction, Antara!

    I'm currently in the middle of A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. It is this year's Pulitzer Prize winner and most certainly different than anything I have read before...so it might be great for discussion.

    Either book works for me.

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  4. charithaJune 1, 2011 at 1:21 PM

    Yay! A new member!

    I'll be happy to read either book! But maybe we should read Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter this month and then A Visit from the Goon Squad next month? The latter seems to have some element of humor which could provide respite after the seriousness of CL,CL and Cutting for Stone.

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  5. AntaraJune 3, 2011 at 2:07 PM

    Ok, that is fine with me. Another humorous, light book that my cousin Shashank recommended was 'This is where I leave you.'

    http://www.amazon.com/This-Where-I-Leave-You/dp/052595127X

    Let's put it to vote -- which one of these books would you want to do for the month of June?

    a) Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
    b) A Visit from the Goon Squad
    c) This is where I leave you

    Votes to be tallied by Monday, June 6th

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  6. VaishaliJune 3, 2011 at 2:24 PM

    I think I could use light hearted. I also fear that CL,CL may fall flat because it's a thriller/suspense. My order of preference:

    1) This is where I leave you
    2) Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
    3) A Visit from the Goon Squad (I got lost reading the synopsis, so I worry the same will be for the book. Also, I'm afraid of Priti's English skills :-) )

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  7. starbuckJune 3, 2011 at 3:03 PM

    Yay for an expanding book club! Here's my ranking:

    1. CL,CL
    2. TIWILY
    3. AVFTGS

    Yes, I am trying to be obnoxious :)

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  8. DiddzJune 3, 2011 at 3:11 PM

    1. Cl, Cl
    2. AVFTGS
    3. TIWILY

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  9. starbuckJune 6, 2011 at 11:30 AM

    Looks like this month is CL, CL? Is that the consensus? Vaish, if this is the case, you should order the book for me :)

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