Next country to explore has been picked! To my fellow bookclub members it is quite an obvious pick as it is the book we choose for next bookclub meeting. I am a member of the loveliest bookclub there is. Few wonderful girls that got together at work and formed a little bookclub five and a half years ago. Some members have started, left, and even some have come back. Right now there are seven active members. We meet approx every other month to catch up, talk about the book, gossip *blush*, eat, and drink wine.
The book we picked for our next meeting was My Father’s Notebook by Kader Abdolah (Arak, Iran). I have never, or not that I can remember, read a book by an Iranian author so this will be interesting!
My Father’s Notebook by Kader Abdolah
So what do I know about Iran? Not a whole lot to be honest. The first thing that comes to mind is that they have a quite a controversial president and then I am really just drawing blanks. Time to learn some more!
In other news: I have decided to combine my resolution with another reading challenge. The 2010 Global Reading Challenge. The only thing that it requires of me is that I make sure I read two books from every continent. Should be fairly straightforward if I manage my own resolution in the first place. If you are looking for a smaller challenge yourself I recommend taking a look at the one book from each continent challenge on that page.
Hi,
You could be forgiven if you strike two countries of the list with this one
Haven’t read him myself (because I don’t read much general literature…), but he’s considered to be a Dutch writer in the Netherlands, and an important one as well.
Greetings,
Rijk
Yes, I saw that but he was born in Iran and he writes books about Iran so it would feel like cheating. Maybe I can keep it as a backup option..
I should have read this post about the book club before lunch:) What a nice post!
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