Richard Ford Reverberations

Reader's Room

We've just returned from a long weekend in lovely San Miguel de Allende in central Mexico celebrating a couple of big birthdays for my parents with my siblings and their spouses.  We were in a little boutique hotel with views out over the city.  Gillian and I, fittingly, stayed in a room named "La Biblioteca."  If you ever chance to visit, check out the accompanying photo to see why I can highly recommend our accommodations if you are trying to keep up with you're Book Group reading...

While I resisted the temptation to delve into the second volume of the Frank Bascombe trilogy, I did use the opportunity of the travel to catch up on some vintage Ian McEwan (The Innocent) which only increased my enthusiasm for our next meeting.  Plenty of time to get started on Atonement if you haven't started yet.  Hope you can all join us on Wednesday, November 15th.

The Sportswriter - Wednesday October 11th at 7pm

I'm just back and settling in after a couple of weeks of travel out of the country.  In my absence, I hope you all noticed the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Kazuo Ishiguro (Never Let Me Go).  For the record, in our short existence along with this Nobel, we have pre-selected winners for the Pulitzer Prize (Adam Johnson - The Orphan Master's Son), the Man Booker (Paul Beatty - The Sellout), and a MacArthur Genius Grant Award (Ben Lerner - Leaving the Atocha Station.)  In addition, our reading list is littered with books and authors we've read after they've received major awards.  I hope you are all finding a way to let your reading background trickle out during various cocktail parties or when your are searching for a distraction during a Sox playoff disaster!

This email is also a reminder that our meeting for The Sportswriter is this Wednesday at 7pm where we will examine the prospects for Richard Ford on the awards circuit.  I hope you can make it.

As always, if you plan to attend, please send me a note so that I can insure we are properly provisioned.

Can I Change my vote?

So,  guess who wins the 2017 Nobel Prize for literature? 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/05/kazuo-ishiguro-wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature


Can I go back and change my thumbs-down vote for "Never Let Me Go" ?
I must have missed something.

Dennis Noonan