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Book Club – 8/4
August 4, 2019
| Sundays | Library | |||||
| Dates | Copies | Pgs | Kindle | Title | Author | Notes |
| 8/4 | 2 | 567 | yes | The Weight of Ink | Rachel Kadish | London 1660s scribe |
|
10/6 |
11 |
288 |
yes |
Shylock Is My Name |
Howard Jacobson |
He won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question, which the group read in 2011. A bold
retelling of The Merchant of Venice. |
|
11/10 |
1 |
397 |
yes |
My Mother’s Sabbath Days |
Chaim Grade |
Tablet Magazine greatest Jewish books- memoir
Vilna, Lithuania |
|
12/15 |
3 |
240 |
yes |
Moses: A Human Life | Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg |
Biography by a great interpreter of Jewish texts |
|
TBD – Jan 2020 |
5 |
352 |
yes |
The Collector’s Apprentice |
B.A. Shapiro |
Set in the 1920s, A historical art thriller. A young Belgian woman, broke, disowned,
and completely alone after her fiance’s con game, reinvents herself in Paris. |