Big changes everybody! New meeting dates - permanent change! Adjustments to reading list!Most importantly, we now meet the LAST Wednesday of the month. Yes, we just had our August gathering a couple of days ago, but we'll meet again this month on the last Wednesday of the month, and continue with that from here on in. Be there or be square, okay?
Secondly, the local bookstore hasn't got copies of Persistence yet so we bumped Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina. I read it already and it is powerful stuff, so please don't skip this one!
This week our discussion of On Dangerous Ground was great - it was a light read, written by an acquaintance of one of our members. The author asked our friend "should she write a sequel?" and well, the reply from book club is "I'd read it!" Thanks for the slightly pulpy butch cop fantasies provided by this little nugget of a novel, DL Line.
Oh and one more title added to the reading list breaking from our "rules" it's not a lesbian author - we've chosen Jodi Picoult's Sing You Home. It's good enough for Jenn (and Ellen is apparently making a movie of it?), it's good enough for us!
Comments
"I Don't Remember You" is a Young Adult novel of around 40,000 words.
It's the story of a young, boyish and sporty girl named Becca Jameson, whose life suddenly gets put on hold while she takes time to recover from a horrific car accident. With the help of her brother Harry, her life soon clambers back onto the right track, however, after a while a peculiar girl stumbles back onto the scene, someone that Becca can't recall at all.
She finally realises that a huge chunk of her life is missing from her memory, and she becomes obsessed with trying to get so many things back that she has lost. On the other hand lies a bookish and shy teenager Jasmine Grant, who has been ripped up inside from grief in the months Becca has been away from her. Apart from her father, her cries are ignored- because what seems like a friendly neighbourhood town to most eyes, is actually a homophobic dictatorship run by none other than Becca's mother, a religious figure.
The book concentrates on Jasmine's fear of society and the courage she has to gather to regain everything she's ever wanted, despite her almost crippling shyness.
(It was also recently short-listed for the Polari First Book Prize.)
I really do hope you consider the book, and hope to hear from you soon!
Thanks,
Stephanie Lennox
- stephanielennox.com