August will be Solitude of Prime Numbers

For the August book club, Nicole Krout will be hosting and has selected, The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paola Giordano.

From Ecletic Booklover at Amazon.com:

The Solitude of Prime Numbers is a quiet but poignant coming of age story about two lonely misfits: Alice Della Rocca and Mattia Balossino. The story begins in 1983 and ends in 2007. 
Alice is pushed by her overbearing father at a young age to become a world-class skier, but a serious skiing accident,in the Italian alps, leaves her scarred and with a permanent limp. She desperately wants to fit in, but she is taunted by other classmates, engages in self loathing behavior, and, as a result, detests her father for the life she seems faced with.  

Mattia is a twin, while he is brilliant,

A huge thanks to Shannon Spencer

Last night’s meeting of the Standley Lake Book Club was another great evening. Our friend Shannon Spencer did a superb job. Not only did she pick an incredible book with the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, but she also provided a delicious meal with pulled pork sandwiches, baked beans, macaroni salad and homemade cookies. The food was incredible and best of all it was a beautiful summer night, so she hosted book club in the backyard. Shannon even made white peach sangria.

It was the perfect summer night – good book, good food, good friends and great drinks. Thanks Shannon!!!!

For August we are going classic

Dale has picked our August book and has gone with a classic – Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
For those unfamiliar, Catcher in the Rye was originally published for adults, but has since become popular with adolescent readers for its themes of teenage confusion, angst, alienation, language and rebellion. It has been translated into almost all of the world's major languages and 250,000 copies are still sold each year. Total sales of more than 65 million. The novel's protagonist and antihero, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."

The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best