Friday, January 22, 2016

Book Group News

 Simon & Schuster
We've got some great reads lined up this year starting with a double bill of 'Brokeback Mountain' by Annie Proulx and / or a Susan Hill novella of your own choice. 

Annie Proulx is known for a book group favourite 'The Shipping News' and for her superb short stories. Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, meet when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on Brokeback Mountain. They unsuccessfully try to resist the attraction that develops between them, but their relationship survives the years and separations. Although they both marry and have families, it remains the most important thing in their lives. 

The book became a highly acclaimed film, which I felt did more justice to the book than the screen adaptation of 'The Shipping News'

A reviewer on Amazon posted this summary of the book: 

"It will take you an hour to read, but it could be the best hour of your life. Lovely, touching, disturbing and superbly written".


Pam

Book group member and poet, Elizabeth Adams, has just read 'The Mist In The Mirror' by Susan Hill, which inspired her to write this poem:



THE MIST IN THE MIRROR

Well what a story, an age old one
evil trying to destroy good
For all our frailties, God knows
he will not allow all good to fail,
We first in our innocence
Then in our human arrogance
believe so much in ourselves
we close the door on the Lord.
The past ignorance of evil
has been in part tainted
Ghosts, Ghouls who would be such a fool
but wary we must be
the devil will always seek
the gullible, the unbelievers
who close their hearts and minds 
to upsets behind blinds

Elizabeth Adams