Blink is our next book

Join us in May to discuss Malcolm Gladwell’s second book, Blink, and learn about why we make the decisions we do (and why we sometimes make them better when we think about them less). Malcolm Gladwell is the author of The Tipping Point and a writer for the New Yorker. Check out his webpage (and his cool hair)

april’s book

For April’s meeting, we choose Marina Lewycka’s A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, which is not actually a short history of tractors in Ukrainian (good thing, since I don’t have time to learn Ukrainian) but an “unusual and poignant novel” (Publisher’s Weekly) telling the story of two sisters living in England who discover that their elderly, widowed father has fallen head over heels for a woman half his age.

“Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blond Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.” (first sentences of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian)