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Book Club: What Shall We Read Next?

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Front-Ranger:
From the liner notes for the book "All the Pretty Horses" by Cormac McCarthy.

"
--- Quote ---Set in 1949, this is the story of John Grady Cole, who at the age of sixteen finds himself at the losing end of a long generations of ranchers: his grandfather has just died; his father, who came back from the war somehow changed, is living in town; and his mother wants nothing so much as to clear out of West Texas forever. Too young to be given charge of the ranch, John Grady is cut off from the only life he has ever imagined wanting.

Over the border into Mexico seems the only way out of a society moving in all the wrong directions, so with his friend Lacey Rawlins he rides into a land both beautiful and barren, rugged and cruelly civilized. . . they acquire a hapless younger companion. . . . this idyllic, sometimes comic adventure leads in fact to a place where dreams are paid for in blood."
--- End quote ---

I'm just now listening to the soundtrack of the movie on Brokeback Mountain radio. It's haunting...thanks, Eric!!

Front-Ranger:
This just in! Jonathan Safran Foer lives in the same buliding as Heath and Michelle!!

Here are a few words from the beginning of "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"

First chapter: "What The?"

What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me?"

Later on on page one is this quote:

"I wonder if everyone's heart's would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have menstural periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about."

Front-Ranger:
A question for Daniel: I see that Foer's first listed work was A Convergence of Birds, which he edited. Is that the same as the book you read??

And for everyone: Foer has also written Everything is Illuminated which was made into a movie starring Elijah Wood. I prefer "Extremely" to it, but we can read "Everything" instead if you prefer.

I also highly recommend listening to Extremely, the recorded book. The voices in it are amazing, and really bring the book to life!!

Katie77:
I cant find the other thread where you write about what book you are reading.....can someone please direct me to that one....

in the meantime....just wanted to mention a book I am about to start reading, called "The Last Apache Girl" by Jim Fergus.......

Anyone else know the the author or the book?

Ellemeno:
I remember when Heath and Michelle were at some Brooklyn fundraiser or something for buildings or something that Jonathan Safran Foer and Nikola Kraus were there.  She wrote "The Nanny Diaries" and "Citizen Girl."  I love his and her books, especially Nanny Diaires.

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