Aug – 2021 – The Waiting Years – Fumiko Enchi
BG1 – August 2021 – start of new season The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi A short read with beautifully developed characters and evocative scenes, first published in 1957, (John Bester translated into English in 1971) took the author seven years to write. The novel won the prestigious Noma prize. Set in the Meiji period […]
July – 2021 – The Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey
Book group 2 report for July – Nabila We had a bonus Book meeting on July 15th . We met on Skype, The book discussed was the widows on Malabar Hill By Sujata Massey. Barbara Angell led the discussion, There were 7 in attendance. They rated the book a 8/10. The book review is below: […]
July – 2021 – A House without Windows – Nadia Hashimi
Title of the book – A House Without Windows Author – Nadia Hashimi Book Group Meeting – July 2nd 2021 A House Without Windows happened to be an interesting reading experience for the group. As our other book readings in the past, this time we each had some similar and some uniquely different take on […]
May – 2021 – Everything I Never Told you – Celeste Ng
May 28th 2021 – Book Group 1 Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng For May 2021, Book Group I read Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. This novel centers on a small-town mixed-race family in the 1970’s grieving the death of their second and favorite child, teenage daughter Lydia. She had […]
May – 2021 – The Latehomecomer – Kao Kalia Yang
Book Review-The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang It’s a thought provoking book and certainly proves the perseverance and sacrifices the Hmong made to move to America. In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward […]
March – 2021 – Big Sister – Jung Chang
Big Sister, Little sister, Red sister by Jung Chang Date: 31st March 2021 Nabila They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the centre of power, and each of them left an indelible […]
Feb – 2021 – Men Without Women
BG 2 – February 2021 review Men Without Women- By Haruki Murakami The book “Men Without Women” is a collection of seven short stories. As the title suggests, the stories are about who in some way lost or found and then lost women. In every story, a male protagonist suffers the loss of woman he […]
Jan – 2021 – The Overstory – Richard Power
BG 1 met via Zoom on 29th January 2021 The Overstory by Richard Powers The Overstory is a 2018 novel by American novelist, Richard Powers, who says that he wrote it because of a powerful encounter he had with a giant redwood tree. Powers describes this as a “religious conversation”, and you can truly feel […]
Jan – 2021 – A Golden Age – Tahmima Anam
BG 2 Review – met January 27th January via zoom A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam A Golden Age is the first book of a trilogy by Bangladesh-born British writer Tahmima Anam, about the 1971 war with Pakistan (then known as West Pakistan). Also called Bangladesh’s independence war, this struggle is depicted through the experience […]
Nov – 2020 – Night Tiger
Book Group 2 – Review by Barbara Angell Meeting held via Zoom in November 25th The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo We have just finished reading and discussing “The Night Tiger” by Yangsze Choo and we rated it high, 8.5/10! It is a busy book that begins, follows and ends with a severed finger! There […]