Fiction Bookclub of Vancouver's Posts

6 posts in this group.

1 comment

May 2012 - BOM is The Bungalow by Sarah Jio

Posted by VWrulesChick, 2 weeks ago

May 2012 Group Read

With the suggestion from Margaret from last month's discussion group, we will be reading The Bungalow by Sarah Jio.

Yes, I will have questions to post as we read it together. So grab your copy, curl up and happy reading!

report this
Was this helpful? yes no yes no
add a comment

8 comments

April 2012 - BOM is The Piano Teacher by Janice YK Lee

Posted by VWrulesChick, 2 months ago

April BOM -chosen by its members

The April book has been chosen - yeah!!

Please grab your copy of The Piano Teacher by Janice YK Lee and start reading it in April. Join us in discussion and I will post some questions as we read it. Love to hear your thoughts.

Happy Reading

report this
Was this helpful? yes no yes no
add a comment

9 comments

March 2012 - BOM is De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage

Posted by VWrulesChick, 2 months ago

March - BOM

De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage is our March read.

In Rawi Hage's astonishing and unforgettable novel, this famous quote by Camus becomes a touchstone for two young men caught in Lebanon's civil war. Bassam and George are childhood best friends who have grown to adulthood in wartorn Beirut. Now they must choose their futures: to stay in the city and consolidate power through crime; or to go into exile abroad, alienated from the only existence they have known. Bassam chooses one path: Obsessed with leaving Beirut, he embarks on a series of petty crimes to finance his departure. Meanwhile, George builds his power in the underworld of the city and embraces a life of military service, crime for profit, killing, and drugs.

Come and join us in reading the book and answering questions that I will be posting during the month.

report this
Was this helpful? yes no yes no
add a comment

What would you like to read in March?

Posted by VWrulesChick, 3 months ago

I can't believe February is almost over, but going over my checklists of things I need to get down before the end of the month. I realized that I do not have a book for March, so here is your chance to suggest a book for next's month reading for the group.

So tell us which book we should read together as a group and discuss!

Look forward to your suggestions!

:)

report this
Was this helpful? yes no yes no
add a comment

7 comments

Feb 2012 - BOM is The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Posted by VWrulesChick, 3 months ago

So, for the month of February we will be reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett.

In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women - mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends - view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.

Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.

Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.

Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.

Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.

I will be posting questions during the month as you read the book that you can answer and create discussion around the themes and characters of the book.

Come and join us in our BOM February read as a group!

report this
Was this helpful? yes no yes no
add a comment

3 comments

Welcome!

Posted by VWrulesChick, 3 months ago

Hello and thank you for joining our group!

Welcome to the group, to get to you know you a bit, please let us know a little about yourself.

Each month you will get to vote on a book that you wish to read, at the end of poll vote - the book with the most votes will be our winner for the following month.

Happy reading and look forward to meeting you all.

:)

report this
Was this helpful? yes no yes no
add a comment