December Monthly Key Word Challenge

[Diane]

DEC- Circle, Clock, Crown, All, Realm, After, Run, Final

The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Circle by Dave Eggers
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
All Souls by Javier Marias
All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
The Way of All Flesh by Butler
The Forbidden Realm by Slauerhoff
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
Rabbit, Run – John Updike

[Jane]

I was thinking about All Quiet on the Western Front, which might be a good companion to Testament of Youth. Or I might be too depressed by WWI to continue with it.

[Rosemary]

I'll be reading The Circle by Dave Eggers. I've had this for a while but I didn't much enjoy another book of his that I read, so I've been ignoring it. I hope I will better appreciate this one!

[Pamela]

I’ll probably read The 13 Clocks as it’s quite short.

[Gail]

Probably After the Death of Don Juan for me. Not too long and not too depressing

[Rosemary]

Looks like The Circle by Dave Eggers might be picked for the January Book of the Month. If it is, I will save it for that and switch to All Souls by Javier Marias for the keyword challenge.

[Jenna]

Jane wrote: "I was thinking about All Quiet on the Western Front, which might be a good companion to Testament of Youth. Or I might be too depressed by WWI to continue with it."

Jane, I read all quiet earlier this year and thought it was excellent - I have not gotten that far yet in testament (200 pages) so it might change, but having a bit of perspective of the front as well as the home front in my mind at the same time has been interesting, and also the similarities between the students on both sides, at a remove from the politics, a little heartbreaking but so important.

[Jane]

Jenna wrote: "Jane wrote: "I was thinking about All Quiet on the Western Front, which might be a good companion to Testament of Youth. Or I might be too depressed by WWI to continue with it."

Jane, I read all q..."


Thanks for the tip Jenna -- I think I will tackle it :)

[Diane]

I read Rabbit, Run by John Updike. I completed all 12 and I feel accomplished by that.