BOOK CLUBHOUSE

Welcome to the Tumblr book club: We will be reading a book each month and talking about it here. Feel free to post images, ideas, reactions, dialogues, or conversation starters as you read.

If you would like to join, just start reading and posting. For a group invite or information on the New York book meetup each month, please email tumblrbooks{at}gmail.com.

THIS CYCLE (April-May 15) we are reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz. It won a little prize called the pulitzer this year.
May 05
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Yesss….who’s ready to kick this off?
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I’m done! And so ready to discuss.
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inquiry

i had a date on saturday night, and being the badass conversationalist that i am started talking about book clubhouse.  i told him we were reading junot diaz’s new book and he said “oh, i have been hearing a lot about her lately”.

 now here is the question, on a scale of 1-10, how bad is it that i wanted to get really snobby w/ him and say “oh wow…this isn’t going to work out b/c junot diaz is a man”?

Apr 29
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Apr 28
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Started reading the book on my flight to DC tonight. I love how smoothly he integrates his sci/fi-fantasy references into the plot -

Respectability so dense in la grande that you’d need a blowtorch to cut it,  and a guardedness so Minas Tirith in la pequena you’d need the whole of Mordor to overcome it.

Apr 22
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I ordered the book from amazon today. I also ordered Armageddon in Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut in order to get super saver (free) shipping. Because of this, it will take 5-7 days before it arrives. I will be having a reading night when it does. I’m very excited about that…
Apr 20
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It’s never the change we want that changes everything.
— page 51 
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great choice

totally loving this book

Apr 16
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$14.97

Actually, it appears the regular Amazon price has recently gone down to just $14.97. Pretty much a bargain, I’d say.