The Free-Range Bookclub
Bookclubbers without boundaries in Nelson, New Zealand
Category: Fantasy
Lincoln In The Bardo – George Saunders
READ FOR BOOKERTHON Abraham Lincoln spends a night in his son’s tomb, a place populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead. ◉ “Told through footnoted attribution derived from various texts, speeches or dialogue, Lincoln In The Bardo can be difficult… Continue Reading “Lincoln In The Bardo – George Saunders”
Wake – Elizabeth Knox
READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Jo One sunny spring morning the Tasman Bay settlement of Kahukura is overwhelmed by a mysterious mass insanity. A handful of survivors find themselves cut off from the world, surrounded by the dead. As they attempt to care for… Continue Reading “Wake – Elizabeth Knox”
The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro
READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Sophia An elderly couple moves across an unrecognisable Britain, one where myths and traditional heroes frequent and where an eerie fog hangs. In search for their son they battle fog-induced forgetfulness and wonder whether being enabled with memory will… Continue Reading “The Buried Giant – Kazuo Ishiguro”
Perfume – Patrick Suskind
READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Nicole Perfume is a a cross-genre novel about Jen-Baptiste Grenouille, a Frenchman born into eighteenth-century France. Abandoned by his mother, he has a superior sense of smell and no personal odour of his own. In order to both create a… Continue Reading “Perfume – Patrick Suskind”
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Rachel The Blind Assassin is a book within a book within a book and opens with the following sentence: ‘Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove her car off a bridge’. It has four interweaving narratives,… Continue Reading “The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood”
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