July - September readings and meeting date
June 20th meeting has been moved to Monday, July 25th - Sputnik Sweetheart -
These descriptions were taken from Amazon:
The August Book is . . . Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk (278 pages)
Palahniuk's grotesque romp aims to skewer the ruthless superficiality of the fashion world and winds up with a tale as savagely glib as what it derides. Narrator Shannon McFarland, once a gorgeous fashion model, has been hideously disfigured in a mysterious drive-by shooting. Her jaw has been shot off, leaving her not only bereft of a career and boyfriend, but suddenly invisible to the world. Along comes no-nonsense, pill-popping diva Brandy Alexander, a resplendent, sassy, transgendered chick, who has modeled her body rearrangementAthe breast implants, the hair, the figureAon what Shannon used to look like. Brandy suggests veils, high camp and no self-pity. Shannon wants revenge: first on her supposedly best friend Evie, who has been squeezing her size nine body into Shannon's size six wardrobe, then on her fiance, Manus Kelly, who has been running around with Evie. Since Shannon now believes that Manus and Evie orchestrated her "accident," Shannon rustles up a few arson/kidnapping "accidents" of her own.
September's book is . . .
My Dark Places by James Ellroy 427 pages-1995
Crime novelist Ellroy was 10 in 1958 when his mother,a divorced nurse and closet alcoholic, was found strangled to death in a deserted schoolyard in California's San Gabriel Valley. The case was still unsolved in 1994, when Ellroy hired retired L.A.
homicide detective Bill Stoner to investigate. In this emotionally raw, hypnotic memoir, Ellroy ventures into the murky, Oedipal depths of his lifelong obsession
with sex crimes and police work, setting his mother's murder against a grisly backdrop of similar L.A. homicides.
See you in July . . .
Happy Reading,
Crystal
These descriptions were taken from Amazon:
The August Book is . . . Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk (278 pages)
Palahniuk's grotesque romp aims to skewer the ruthless superficiality of the fashion world and winds up with a tale as savagely glib as what it derides. Narrator Shannon McFarland, once a gorgeous fashion model, has been hideously disfigured in a mysterious drive-by shooting. Her jaw has been shot off, leaving her not only bereft of a career and boyfriend, but suddenly invisible to the world. Along comes no-nonsense, pill-popping diva Brandy Alexander, a resplendent, sassy, transgendered chick, who has modeled her body rearrangementAthe breast implants, the hair, the figureAon what Shannon used to look like. Brandy suggests veils, high camp and no self-pity. Shannon wants revenge: first on her supposedly best friend Evie, who has been squeezing her size nine body into Shannon's size six wardrobe, then on her fiance, Manus Kelly, who has been running around with Evie. Since Shannon now believes that Manus and Evie orchestrated her "accident," Shannon rustles up a few arson/kidnapping "accidents" of her own.
September's book is . . .
My Dark Places by James Ellroy 427 pages-1995
Crime novelist Ellroy was 10 in 1958 when his mother,a divorced nurse and closet alcoholic, was found strangled to death in a deserted schoolyard in California's San Gabriel Valley. The case was still unsolved in 1994, when Ellroy hired retired L.A.
homicide detective Bill Stoner to investigate. In this emotionally raw, hypnotic memoir, Ellroy ventures into the murky, Oedipal depths of his lifelong obsession
with sex crimes and police work, setting his mother's murder against a grisly backdrop of similar L.A. homicides.
See you in July . . .
Happy Reading,
Crystal
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