St Catherines College (Kilbirnie)

25,403 pages read and 2,525 team points

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3,736 pts

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Erasure

By Percival Everett

4 stars
Murder on the Orient Express

By Agatha Christie

5 stars
Orbital

By Samantha Harvey

5 stars
The Grapes of Wrath

By John Steinbeck

5 stars
The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

By Gary Gerstle

4 stars
The Great Fire

By Shirley Hazzard

5 stars
Klara and the Sun

By Kazuo Ishiguro

3 stars
The Wide Wide Sea

By Hampton Sides

4 stars
Butcher's Crossing

By John Williams

4 stars
The Merry Wives of Windsor

By William Shakespeare

4 stars
Hope in the Dark

By Rebecca Solnit

3 stars

My friend and I were looking for a book to help us think more clearly about the recent US election. We'd both heard of this work by Solnit, which she wrote in response to Bush's 2004 reelection. Solnit offers good advice about how to find hope in situations that appear hopeless. She describes the long game, and she reminds us that actions we engage in now may never reveal their effects in our lifetimes, but that doesn't mean these actions are meaningless. She cites many examples from history, and she weaves in many inspirational quotes from historical figures. At times, the book felt more like a string of slogans and buzzwords. I was looking for more depth, more analysis. But the book was uplifting, which is what we wanted to read it for.
Cloudstreet

By Tim Winton

4 stars

A sprawling Australian postwar epic, Winton's novel immerses you in the layered lives of the Pickles and the Lambs, two families sharing a ramshackle mansion at the end of Cloud Street. The writing is lovely, and the characters are compelling. But about halfway through the book, it began to feel to me more like a made-for-TV plot than a novel. Things felt staged, like set pieces. The lovely moments are quite beautiful, but overall the novel felt too plotted/staged for me.

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Erasure

Murder on the Orient Express

Orbital

The Grapes of Wrath

The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order

The Great Fire

Klara and the Sun

The Wide Wide Sea

Butcher's Crossing

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Hope in the Dark

Cloudstreet

St Catherines College (Kilbirnie)

25,403 pages read and 2,525 team points

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