Illness and a very busy work schedule have prevented me from reading this month’s Big Other Book Club selection, Tom McCarthy’s C, but I still wanted to contribute something. So, for anyone who is reading/discussing it, here’s some background music:
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In C
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged C, In C, Jac Jemc, Paul McCartney and Wings, Sesame Street, Terry Riley, The Little Mermaid, Tom McCarthy on January 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Some Thoughts on Tom McCarthy’s C, One Week Removed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Book Club, Tom McCarthy on January 27, 2011 | 7 Comments »
It’s been a week since I finished our first book club book, Tom McCarthy’s C, and I’m glad I waited to write about it. Had I written upon it last week, I think my opinions would have been less generous. Last week, upon finishing, I let myself read reviews of the book – something I [...]
Reminder: Reading of C is Underway!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged C, Tom McCarthy on January 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hey, y’all. I’m about halfway through C by Tom McCarthy, our January book club selection, if you don’t recall. You still have two weeks to join the discussion. I’m going to kick things off with some ideas of who I’d cast in the movie version of this book. I bet there will be a movie [...]
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Announcing the Book Club Schedule!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, Big Breasts and Wide Hips, Big Other, C, Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries, Djuna Barnes, Gilgamesh, Gordon Lish, Helen Vendler, John Barth, John Gardner, John Hawkes, John Maier, Lyn Hejinian, Manuel Puig, Mary Caponegro, Mo Yan, My Life, Nightwood, Peru, Searches and Seizures: 3 Novellas, Stanley Elkin, The Complexities of Intimacy, The Sotweed Factor, Tom McCarthy, Travesty on December 26, 2010 | 9 Comments »
The votes are in, and the winner of the poll for the first book to be discussed in the Big Other Book Club is Tom McCarthy’s C. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, hailed by many and knocked by maybe even more, McCarthy describes the book as dealing with technology and mourning. I’m excited to have, as [...]
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