Wednesday, February 5, 2014

march book

Next month's book will be Ablutions by Patrick DeWitt. It looks like we all enjoyed The Sisters Brothers so much(read in 2012), we want to explore another book by this author.
Join us on Tuesday, March 4th for drinks and discussion.




In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works A Barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives, he establishes tentative friendships with the cast of variously pathological regulars.But as his tenure at the bar continues, he begins to serve himself more often than his customers, and the moments he lives outside the bar become more and more painful: he loses his wife, his way, himself. Trapped by his habits and his loneliness, he realizes he will not survive if he doesn't break free. And so he hatches a terrible, necessary plan of escape and his only chance for redemption.Step into Ablutions and step behind the bar, below rock bottom, and beyond the everyday take on storytelling for a brilliant, new twist on the classic tale of addiction and its consequences.

2013 books ranked


A surprising tie for the number one position!
Considering only 3 people read Wolf Hall, those that read it enjoyed it immensely. Might need to try picking that one up again.


#1 (tie) Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

#1 (tie) A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

#2 The Love of a Good Woman  Alice Munro

#3 Complicity Iain Banks

#4 The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

#5 The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

#6 Great Apes by Will Self

#7 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

#8 The Dante Club: A Novel by Matthew Pearl

#9 The Bartender: Darkness on the Edge of Town by Axel Matfin