Summer Reading for the Purple Book Club
Here is the list of suggested books.
Please make your 1st and 2nd choice in the comment box. I’ll collate the votes and put the most popular book choice on the Book Forum. Then we can all get reading!
A Woman's Europe by Marybeth Bond
True stories and tales about women's travels in and around Europe. A wonderful collection by talented women writers.
Blue Sky July by Nia Wyn
Part prose, part poetry, this book reveals the pain and joy of the experience of motherhood when your child has profound and multiple difficulties. A deeply moving account of one mother's love for her severely disabled son.
Engleby by Sebastian Faulks
A rambling first person narration. A complicated and disturbing book, sad, serious and eminently readable.
Galloper Jack by Brough Scott
A grandson's search for a forgotten hero, General Jack Seeley. Ripping yarns about early 20th Century adventure and politics.
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
True confessions of one of Japan’s most celebrated Geishas.
Passion by Jude Morgan
The Romantics remembered. A novel about the lives and loves of those very Romantic, famous (infamous?) poets, Byron, Shelley and Keats. This story explores their lives through the eyes of the women who knew and loved them.
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penny
In order to clear her son’s name a woman has to make a terrible journey through the Canadian wilderness in the dead of winter. Her only companion a strange and apparently brutal man.
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
An inspiring book about the search for wilderness and its meanings - (back on the list at Exmoorjanes special request. If we all choose to read it, she's going to take up backpacking in the Highlands - isn't that true Jane?)
Two Caravans by Marina Lewycka
A funny, clever and well observed tale of migrant workers strawberry picking in Kent.
When We Were Bad by Charlotte Mendelson
A warm, poignant, funny, moving and totally believable portrayal of a London family in crisis.
(The picture is Cottages at Cordeville 1890 by Van Gough)
17 comments:
Eeek! Too many books I want to read but I'll finally settle for:
1st A Woman's Europe
2nd The Wild Places
Galloper Jack by Brough Scott
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penny
Thanks for doing this.
Blossom
1. A Woman's Europe
2.When we were Bad
Thank you LWB!
1. The Wild Places
2. When we were bad
What a fascinating - and diverse - list.
PS - yeah, absolutely, backpacking in the Highlands with an Asbo Jack hot water bottle. (fingers crossed firmly behind back).
When we were Bad
The tenderness of wolves.
Thanks, LWB.
I'lll have to vote for the 2 I suggested! As I have them here ready to read!
1st Two Caravans
2nd The Tenderness of the Wolves
Thanks for organising us LWB!
Engleby - Sebastain Faulks ...keep meaning to read this..this will ensure I do.
Two caravans ....seeing as we are currently knee deep in migrating workers and have even had two staying here...the vodka ....arrgghh the vodka.....
Thank you LBW
1. Engleby
2. when we were bad
(read the July Sky one in tesco, very sad, too sad, very brave, am currently reading 2 Caravans and while better than Tractors, it has very few chapters, just lots of gaps between paras which makes it odd to read. Discuss)
Good work Lampie
1. When We Were Bad
2. Blue Sky July
Thanks again, LWB. Looking forward to the discussions, as always.
When we were Bad
Two Cravans
1. Two Caravans
2. When We Were Bad
Blue Sky July (It is not part poetry but the writing is so beautiful it is 'poetic'.
Wild Places
1) A woman's Europe
2)Two Caravans
Tenderness of wolves reminds me too much of people's act of love
Engleby - Sebastian Faulks because I like this author
The Tenderness of Wolves - Stf Penny. Ikmow nothing about this book, but think I would like it.
I have just been over to my library's site, to see if they are going to have some of these books ... remember this great library does get imported books before they are published over here in the States.
So, knowing that these will be arriving in May, I'll vote for
When We Were Bad
Engleby
Thank you again for keeping this book club going.
xo
As always thank you so much for all your hard work in doing this - it is appreciated a great deal.
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