Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Leonardo and the Last Supper” by Ross King
Leonardo da Vinci’s rendering of the Last Supper on the wall of the refectory of the convent of Santa…
May 3, 2013-
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Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Crossers” by Philip Caputo
After his wife is killed in one of the planes on 9/11, Gil Castle finds himself adrift, unmoored by…
April 19, 2013 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Dinner,” by Herman Koch
Do you think the Dutch have brought us only tulips, windmills and painters? (OK, and the tulip bubble.) I…
April 12, 2013 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?” by Jeannette Winterson
It’s clear from Jeannette Winterson’s memoir of her childhood that Winterson could not predict what she was going to…
April 6, 2013 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Little Known Facts” by Christine Sneed
Triangles are stable structures – except when people form them. Shifting alliances mean shifting loyalties, and one’s interpersonal skills…
March 29, 2013 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Leopard’s Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Çatalhöyük” by Ian Hodder
The archeological site Çatalhöyük, in central Turkey, was the site of a large (33.5 acres) and populous (3000 –…
March 22, 2013 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The View From Here” by Deborah McKinlay
Frankie, young and in her twenties, the daughter of British ex-pats living in the Far East, has followed a…
March 15, 2013 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Sweet Tooth” by Ian McEwan
Ian McEwan’s heroine in “Sweet Tooth,” Serena Frome, daughter of an (Anglican) bishop who has earned a third class…
March 8, 2013 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “The Garden of Evening Mists” by Tan Twan Eng
Concede, cooperate, collaborate. Each of these might be thought of as points on a continuum describing different ways we…
March 1, 2013 -
Brooklyn Bugle Book Club: “Vacant Possession” by Hilary Mantel
The completely mad are different from you and me. Or, maybe not: they have hopes and dreams and lives.…
February 22, 2013