We are seven handsome and charming* guys who meet at a different restaurant every month or so, having read a book in common, and discuss whatever we want--generally the assigned book, but usually many other timely topics as well. We rotate the responsibility to suggest titles, but the group has the final say. Our book club rules: 1) Anything goes, fiction or nonfiction; 2) paperbacks are preferred; and 3) staying under 300 pages is desirable (N.B., we violate this one all the time). We rate all books and restaurants on a 5-point scale.

* All other adjectives were vetoed.

June 20, 2015

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Third Bird)

This is an easy-to-read novel about the convergence of two young lives during WWII: a blind French girl and a radio tech-savvy member of the Hitler youth corps. It's a simple--some might say simplistic--story related in beautiful prose (although some of us found the non-chronological presentation needlessly confusing).  If you want a somewhat romanticized story about the war, with little realistic grit and almost no cursing, this is for you.  It won a Pulitzer, probably for the prose,  The Third Bird is a new place on Loring Park with a quirky menu and mixed quality.  The biggest complaint was about service.

The next book is William Kent Kreuger's Ordinary Grace, a coming-of-age story set in rural Minnesota.  Other titles considered were Mary Ellis' Bohemian Flats and Daniel James Brown's Boys in the Boat.  We'll meet on Tuesday, August 11, and Roger will suggest the next book.
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