Choices for the August 4th discussion. Vote!

Books were selected by Kim Hatch, who will be leading our discussion on the 4th.

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
by Alexandra Fuller

In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.

Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut

Cat's Cradle is a satirical science-fiction novel by American writer and novelist Kurt Vonnegut, originally published in 1963.

Planning to write a book about the bombing of Hiroshima, the book's narrator ("John") follows his research to the life and work of one Felix Hoenniker, a physicist who has created the world's most deadly substance, ice-nine (water that freezes at room temperature). However, the story ultimately takes him to the fictional Caribbean island of San Lorenzo, a failed utopia where the locals practice an outlawed religion that may hold the secret to the mystery of life's purpose.

The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins

The story begins with an eerie midnight encounter between artist Walter Hartright and a ghostly woman dressed all in white who seems desperate to share a dark secret. The next day Hartright, engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie and her half sister, tells his pupils about the strange events of the previous evening. Determined to learn all they can about the mysterious woman in white, the three soon find themselves drawn into a chilling vortex of crime, poison, kidnapping, and international intrigue.
Masterfully constructed, The Woman in White is dominated by two of the finest creations in all Victorian fiction—Marion Halcombe, dark, mannish, yet irresistibly fascinating, and Count Fosco, the sinister and flamboyant “Napoleon of Crime.”