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Book Fight Club Reminder

November 24, 2010 in Wordsmoker Book Club

Hello there. This is a quick reminder that we will meet and discuss The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson on Tuesday, December 7 at 9 pm EST. How are you liking The Finkler Question? Is it treating you right? Is it making you dinner and rubbing your feet? Or is it pushing you up against a wall and giving you a quick pat-down, then running off with your wallet in the dead of night? I swear to God this book stole my Visa card and bought itself a set of tickets to see Carmen.


This song here goes out to Treslove and all the tragic babes out there waiting for him.




PS: We should also be thinking about our next book. I would like it to be written by a woman (that means she’s sporting some filet mignon, if you know what I mean.) Anyone interested in The Folded World by Amity Gaige? It seems like a good one. Keep it in mind as an option.


image of The Finkler Question via Asylum.

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  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/militantrubberducky/ MilitantRubberDucky

    I am trying my level best to finish this book on time. I like it a whole lot, but Call of Duty: Black Ops came out at the same time and,well, I am weak. I killed a Castro look-alike, if that counts for anything.

    May I suggest The Darkest Child by Dolores Phillips? I have it and like it a lot, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything (if you click the link, please read an excerpt, as the synopsis is surprisingly sucky). Oooh, or how about I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven? I heart this book.

    There are others on my bookshelf, I just have to look. I’m not opposed to The Folded Word , though.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/militantrubberducky/ MilitantRubberDucky

    This. This looks awesome.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/fictionsinmotion/ Vaquero

    Thanks, Ducky. I’ll put those books on the list.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/chillbearlatrigue/ Chillbear Latrigue

    I am trying my level best to finish this book on time. It seems like I would like it a whole lot, but the person to whom I loaned my copy purchased Call of Duty: Black Ops at the same time and, well, she is weak. I heard she killed a Castro look-alike, if that counts for anything.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/irishbreakfast/ irishbreakfast

    How about this? We could do the whole series! Who could resist the Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease series ?

    Death in a Small Package
    By Susan D. Jones December 4th, 2010; Vol.178 #12 (p. 32)

    Death in a Small Package by Susan D. Jones Part of the Johns Hopkins Biographies of Disease series, this history of anthrax describes the bacteria’s transformation from agricultural disease to biological weapon.

    Johns Hopkins Univ., 2010, 329 p., $24.95.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/whyamihere/ WhyamIhere?

    @IB: Meh. I’ve already read that.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/whyamihere/ WhyamIhere?

    Twice.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/5oclocksomewhere/ 5oclockSomewhere

    Began the day at page 17. Hours to spare today, hours, with intentions set on: settle in, get a few hours of reading in.

    End of day. Page 17.

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/militantrubberducky/ MilitantRubberDucky

    I finished it! Now Herr Chillbear von Latrigue has ten days to do the same (plenty of time).

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/whyamihere/ WhyamIhere?

    @MRD: Chillbear von Latrigue? Now he’s a vichy?

  • http://wordsmoker.com/help/members-3/militantrubberducky/ MilitantRubberDucky

    @Why: What do you mean ‘now’?