The Reader on the 6.27

Guylain Vignolles lives on the edge of existence. Working at a book pulping factory in a job he hates, he has but one pleasure in life . . .

Sitting on the 6.27 train each day, Guylain recites aloud from pages he has saved from the jaws of his monstrous pulping machine. But it is when he discovers the diary of a lonely young woman, Julie – a woman who feels as lost in the world as he does – that his journey will truly begin.

Elaine 5
Sally 7
June 8
Janine 5
Rebecca 5
Janet 6
Cai 4
Christine 8
Trude 7
Jane 5

Janet J
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A House Full of Daughters

Trude 7
Jane 8
Sally 7
Janet 8
June 7
Pauline 8
Cai 8
Rebecca 9
Christine 6
Elaine 8

All families have their myths and Juliet Nicolson’s was no different: her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita, her mother’s Tory-conventional background.

A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siècle Washington DC, an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she has come from.

Cai M
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Message from June:

I think I can see why we didn’t get the book back sooner – maybe we should have filled in the Reward section!

June x

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The Sellout by Paul Beatty

delloutA biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game.

Born in Dickens on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father’s racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father’s work will lead to a memoir that will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed in a drive-by shooting, he discovers there never was a memoir. All that’s left is a bill for a drive-through funeral.

What’s more, Dickens has literally been wiped off the map to save California from further embarrassment. Fuelled by despair, the narrator sets out to right this wrong with the most outrageous action conceivable: reinstating slavery and segregating the local high school, which lands him in the Supreme Court.

Several people (Cai, Jane,Janet and Elaine) couldn’t/didn’t finish this book. So the average of the scores below may not be an accurate reflection.

June 5
Pauline 6
Christine 7
Sally 7
Trude 6
Rebecca 5

June T
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