Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel Ghost World was our April Book club selection. We watched the film as a group and compared the two versions. I enjoyed both the book and the film. Although the film strays from the text a good deal, it does capture visually the general tone of the novel. The biggest changes [...]
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Ghost World
Posted in Book Club on bookshelf, bookshelf reviews on June 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
PopCo
Posted in Book Club on bookshelf, bookshelf reviews on March 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Alice, the narrator of Scarlett Thomas’s novel PopCo, creates toys for a multinational toy company. She specializes in toys for the alienated child, those children who like to crack codes, solve mysteries and play spy. Games Alice herself would have enjoyed as child with few friends. After her father abandoned her in search of treasure, [...]
February Book Club
Posted in Book Club on bookshelf, bookshelf reviews on February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Our book selection, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits by Laila Lalam, is a series of inter-connected stories about a group of Moroccans trying to emigrate to Spain. We first meet the characters on a small boat near the Spanish coast and the stories that follow chronicle their lives before and after the boat trip to [...]
