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Re: [book-swap-147] Last night and next month and 31 great New York Books

From: Karen D
Sent on: Wednesday, November 28, 2007, 3:11 PM 
Hi Liz,

Sorry I wasn't able to make it last night, but I'm
looking forward to the next meeting.

My top choices are:

Another Country, James Baldwin
Enemies, a Love Story, Isaac Bashevis Singer
Miss Lonelyhearts, Nathaniel West
Seize the Day, Saul Bellow

I've read a several of the others on the list and
totally recommend them, too, esp. Quicksand by Nella
Larson. It's a bit odd that Dreiser's Sister Carrie is
on the list. As I remember, the first half is in
Chicago, and the second in New York, so it's not
totally a "New York book." Plus it's REALLY boring! :)

Karen


--- Liz <[address removed]> wrote:

>  
> Hi all, Thanks so much to everyone who came along
> last night and managed to turn a 208-page book into
> a two-hour discussion. I think the fact that we all
> had such stong views about what did or didn't happen
> to the characters in the end shows that, at the very
> least, it was an intriguing novel that caught
> everyone's imagination, despite the unfamiliar time
> and setting. Thanks especially for the comments
> about sex education in Britain. We are working on
> it. In the meantime, attached is a list of the
> novels featured on the "100 Essential New York
> Books" kindly provided by John. If you could give me
> some feedback about authors, or titles, you'd be
> interested in reading from this list, I'll set up a
> poll with the 6 most popular by this Friday,
> November 30. Please vote over the weekend on the
> meetup site (I'll put a link to the poll in Friday's
> e-mail) and I'll send out the results on Monday
> lunchtime. And, just to confirm, the next meeting
> will be Tuesday, December 18, NOT 
> December 11 as it currently says on the meetup site.
> I will change the details as soon as I get home, for
> some reason I cannot access the site from work.
> Thanks again for a great evening, Liz PS Does anyone
> want to meet up in the meantime to talk about The
> Gathering? I am about 15 pages into it and am loving
> it already. E-mail me if you're interested.    
> 
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