Book Club: What Shall We Read Next?

[Front-Ranger]

Sounds familiar. Is he the same guy as Josh Purcell-Kilmer, from The Fabulous Beekman Boys on Planet Green (TV)? Gay couple gave up Manhattan to move to a farm?

Yes, the very same. Finished up Bucolic Plague, now diving into Orlando, by Virginia Wolf, with sides of  Super Sad Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart and The Wilder Life, by Wendy McClure.

[Front-Ranger]

Anybody interested in reading The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, with me? I have never read it, and soon a book will be published about it by Nicholas Frankel.

There's also a movie, starring Colin Firth!!

You can read it online at The Gutenberg Project.

Was this truly Wilde's only published novel?

[Monika]

Was this truly Wilde's only published novel?

I believe so. I checked my copy of  "The complete Works of Oscar Wilde" and there are other stories but they are all lot shorter than TPODG and are probably categorized as short stories.

[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."

At last! This has come to the silver screen!