Purple Coo Book Group Autumn Read 2018
To vote for your favourite books please list your 1st and 2nd choices in the comments box below, or let me know via the Purple Coo site or on Face Book, Behind the Bike Sheds. After a count up I'll post the most popular title on the Purple Coo main site.
Crome
Yellow by Aldous Huxley
First published in 1921 and Aldous Huxley’s debut novel,
Chrome Yellow is a witty satire on upper-class English country life and is seen
to be a parody of Garsington Manor, the home of Lady Ottoline Morrell.
Educated
by Tara Westover
The memoir of a woman who, at 17 and completely
uneducated, manages to escape from her fundamentalist Mormon family living a
survivalist life in the Idaho mountains and become a successful academic.
Engerby
by Sebastian Faulks
“My name is Mike Engerby and I’m in my second
year at an ancient university,” is how Faulks introduces the character who turns out to be this gifted novelist's most
difficult to fathom, odd and not particularly likeable, unreliable narrator.
The Music
Shop by Rachel Joyce
Set in 1988, The Music Shop follows record shop
owner Frank who has the rare gift of finding the perfect piece of music to
remedy any emotional or psychological woes his customers may be suffering from.
However his cosy world is under threat, not only from record companies
plugging CDs rather than his beloved vinyl, but also the developers who would like to knock his
shop down. And yes, there is a love story as well.
Eleanor
Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
A surprisingly joyous book based around a young
woman’s tragically profound loneliness. A disturbing and unusual novel seen
through the eyes of an extremely unreliable narrator, that somehow manages to
be both eye wateringly hilarious and heartrendingly moving, often both on the
same page.
The picture is by Grandma Moses. I couldn't find out it's name but it does make me think autumn is on the way.