It’s non-fiction about the 1972 murder of a mother of 10 in Belfast attributed to the IRA. It’s a bit lengthy at 455 pages but has received rave reviews and is now a series on FX/Hulu.
The author writes for the New Yorker, this is from their website:
… Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Orwell Prize for political writing, and the Arthur Ross Book Award from the Council on Foreign Relations, and was named one of the twenty best books of the century by the New York Times .
I’d like to choose our next book this week, so if you have a preference, let us know!
Let’s go with The Lost Apothecary for our next book and Married to Bhutan to follow that. Does that sound OK? @Cuttlefish , they’re both available on Kindle.
We could meet during the week of 14 April.:
Monday, 14 Apr
Tuesday, 15 Apr
Wednesday, 16 Apr
Thurs, 17 Apr
at the usual time: 10AM PDT/11AM MDT/12noon CDT/1PM EDT/6PM GMT/7PM CET/8PM EEST (Turkey)
Please post your date preference(s) and if you have any time conflicts or requests.
Another book to add to the “possibly sometime in the future” list: The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. It’s a great read about a very special boat cruise from Paris to the Mediterranean.
Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can’t seem to heal through literature is himself; he’s still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.
Like a few others, the 17th is the only date I can’t do. It is the turn of younger son’s football club to host their friends from a Dutch football club this year. They will be arriving right around the time book club meets!
