Dear Bookclub,
Unable to attend our June meeting to discuss Ian McEwan's "Lessons", Trudy provided a brief synopsis of the gathering:
"Finding the book depressing and hard to read, most stopped reading it, except for Terrie, who liked it, especially the historical content.
Our book choice was Ann Patchett’s newest novel because many had already read Covenant of Water and Jeannette Walls, Hang the Moon."
How I wish I could have been there! Consider: McEwan's ability to put the notion of a woman abandoning the role of mother to feed her own need, battling the very nature of human existence and the mess that accompanies those philosophies. Add the layer of Miss Miriam Cornell and yuck:
"McEwan can make a reader feel as though she has bent forward to sniff a rose and received instead the odor of old sewage."
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/books/review/ian-mcewan-lessons.html
Packing in historic consequences and, once again, the seemingly endless effects of WWII, McEwan stimulates contemplation of the tinting world events cast upon individual lives. Mirroring sixty years of the author's life, influences abound.
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| love his decorating style |
Great interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGPWYWOAYlg
Hard to pick up a book after putting it aside, but if you do, I will happily discuss it with you anytime! Stuck in my head, this, like other McEwan reads, I won't quickly forget (despite being on some trajectory to forget everything - enter reference to Nora Ephron's 2010 "I Remember Nothing".. audible excellent).
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| Nora Ephron |
Trudy's suggestions for an upcoming read:
"The Covenant of Water" Abraham Verghese
"Hang the Moon" Jeannette Walls
"Tom Lake" Ann Patchett *chosen
Up next:
Happy reading,
LK
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