Don't Forget - We Meet OCT 31 to discuss THE RED TENT

If you are like me, you are on about page 43 of The Red Tent think, Oh, I've read this before, it should be no problem. If you are like Erica, you have finished the book and keep thinking that we are meeting before we actually are.

Zebedee reminds us that we are meeting on Tuesday, the 31st and he says it should be a howling good time (though he doesn't really bark much).

Some updates: Authors we have read in the past have been busy.

There is a new book out by Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife). The Adventuress follows the dreamlike journey of an alchemist’s daughter. After she is kidnapped by a lascivious baron, she turns herself into a moth and flees to the garden of a charming butterfly collector named Napoleon Bonaparte. The story of how the two become lovers, and how their affair ends in tragedy and transcendence, is told through Niffenegger’s spare prose and haunting aquatint etchings. With a stunning and distinctive visual style reminiscent of the work of Edward Gorey, this gothic romance packs the emotional heft of the world’s great fairy tales. (Amazon.com)

Fastfood Nation is being made into a movie of all things: Eric Schlosser's bestselling exposé of the dark side of the American passion for fast food comes to the screen as a fictional film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Greg Kinnear, Ethan Hawke, and Patricia Arquette. (Barnes and Noble.com)


Khaled Hosseini, author of "The Kite Runner," will have a new book, "A Thousand Splendid Suns," out next spring. The publisher describes Hosseini's new book as a "heart-wrenching chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith and the salvation to be found in love." (YahooNews.com)

Sarah Waters latest book, The Night Watch, came out in paper back. Erica has been reading it. She says it is compelling but she is tempted to read it backwards (the book moves back in time). That's all she has really told me about the book - guess I'll have to read it myself.

See you on the 31st ready to discuss The Red Tent -
Jen