South Shore Readers discussion

Our August book is the novel This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz. This book was on a lot of "top book" lists in the past couple of years.

We are meeting in person the last Sunday in August in Pembroke, MA. You can RSVP for the meeting here: http://www.goodreads.com/event/show/8...

Whether you can attend in person or not, feel free to discuss the book in this thread.

Junot Diaz is going to be speaking about this book at the brattle theater in Harvard Square on Thursday September 5 at 6 pm. Tickets ate $5 each and go on sale Tuesday at 9 am.

Tickets and info available on the Harvard Book Store website.
http://www.harvard.com/event/junot_di...
Anyone interested?

UPDATE: this is sold out already!

So the chef at Turner's Yard was on this past season of Hell's Kitchen! He didn't do particularly well, I guess if he had he wouldn't be around Pembroke any more!

Does that mean the place is icky?

I don't think so. He competed on Hell's Kitchen for a chance to win money-the restaurant wasn't on Kitchen Nightmares where the place is gross and needs help.

Oh. Is it that older guy frank? (Or whatever his name was?)

And I should be done with the book by tomorrow. It's a fairly quick read. I know a few of you already finished it.

So I finished this last night (btw-I don't think I have finished a book in time for book club all year! Hmm...interesting to note I also started dating in January. Coincidence? You be the judge!) but back to the book.

I went back and skimmed over "Otra Vida/Otra Vez", the story that's told by the girl who works in the laundry and I don't think it's Rafa's ex-girlfriend Nilda. The girl in the laundry story has been in the US only a few years and Nilda was born here. It doesn't fit with Pura either since she had a kid in the DR and one here. I don't know, I'm perplexed on that one.

I went back and looked and the only book I finished on time this year was Left Neglected and that was only because I read it over a year ago so it doesn't count!