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!
Here are some titles to consider for our next book selection. Please take a look and post your preference(s) or add others.
I love this title. This is a memoir by the celebrated New York restaurateur, his childhood in London, his health challenges, marriages and Instagram notoriety, told with candor and humility.
A thriller set in Virginia. “…a Godfather-inspired Southern crime epic and dazzling family drama”
A whodunit. One of Jane Austen’s most hated villains is murdered.
A novel by the acclaimed Irish author, Colm Toibin, set in Long Island. An Irish wife is faced with her Italian husband’s infidelity and the child that will result.
A novel by Pulitzer prize winning author, Elizabeth Strout, set in small town Maine where a murder has taken place.
From what I’ve read, it’s technically non fiction but reads like a mystery novel with the added bonus of Northern Ireland troubles as a background.
Yes, I would be interested in reading it but I am also interested in others included in this list. I would like to know what others think.
I have finished the Murder of Mr Wickham now and would gladly discuss it in the meeting if others are interested. I will probably read Say Nothing at one time or another, regardless of the club.
Hi there Maeve,
Thank you for compiling this list.
I like the sound of most of them, but preference for:
Tell me everything
The murder of Mr. Wickham
Midnight in the garden of good and evil (on the list from February)
Whilst Say Nothing does sound very interesting, I’m concerned it’s a little long for me to get through. But I’d give it a go!! I’ll join in whatever we choose.
Thank you again for organising this book club, I really enjoy it and appreciate your hard work.
Hello everyone. I have read Long Island. It is a sequel to Brooklyn and a nice, light read. I am just about to start The Murder of Mr Wickham. I would also be interested in Tell Me Everything.
One for the future (I have a library request in merely because of the title) is The Book Club For Troublesome Women.
I think my choices would be
Say nothing
Tell me everything
The Murder of Mr Wickham
Sorry I didn’t make the discussion of Married to Bhutan. 16 yr old son has exams and our normal weekly schedule has had to be rearranged, meaning I couldn’t make it.
I have just started Say nothing. It’s really enjoyable. It reads like a novel. Having lived in Northern Ireland myself at the time of the troubles, I am probably more interested than others but the information provided is set as a background to the story and characters not like an essay.
