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Saturday Aug the 25th at 2pm
'the Wife' by Meg Wolitzer
Joe and Joan Castleman are en route to Helsinki. Joe is thinking about the prestigious literary prize he will receive and Joan is plotting how to leave him. For too long Joan has played the role of supportive wife, turning a blind eye to his misdemeanours, subjugating her own talents and quietly being the keystone of his success...This is an acerbic and astonishing take on a marriage and the truth that behind the compromises, dedication and promise inherent in marriage there so often lies a secret.
The official ranking of the book for the current year:
The year, we are only reading books that have won a literary award:
September 2017: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (National Book Critics Award) 7.5/10
October 2017: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Pullitzer prize 2017 ) 7.21/10
November 2017: Dodgers by Bill Berverly (CWA world dagger award 2016)
December 2017: Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro (Nobel Prize in literature)
The books' reviews are here!
The official ranking of the books we read previously:
2016-2017
After yet another year of reading, here's a reminder of the books we loved, hated or felt rather uninterested by.
"A Meal in Winter" (Sep) 4.4
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" (Oct) 6.83
"A Gap of Time" (Nov) 5.57
"Slade House" (Dec) 6.57
"A Clockwork Orange" (Jan) 6.36
"Orlando" (Feb) 7.96
"The Kraken Wakes" (Mar) 6.75
"Bonk" (Apr) 6.55
"Dirt Music" (May) 7.1
"The Glass Room" (Jun) 7.58
"Genghis Khan" (Jul) 5.63
2015-2016
Here you find the books we've read in the year of 2015/2016.
The Poisonwood Bible 8.63
Blindness 7.83
Kepler 6.57
Go With Me 4.40
The Twin 7.20
Cold Cold Ground 2.88
The Golem and the Djinni 7.93
The Quiet American 7.10
The Memoirs of Hadrien 7.25
English Passengers
2014-2015
Below you can find an overview of all the books we read for the year 2014-2015
The Devil in the White City 5.14
World War Z 7.06
Breakfast at Tiffany's 8.11
The Lives of Girls and Women 7.14
The House on Mango Street 5.93
We Have Always Lived in the Castle 8.00
I am Malala 6.33
Three Day Road 7.25
Lamb 3.71
The Bellwether Revivals 6.80