Join us in December for the monthly meeting of the Calendars and Clocks Book Club. This month we will be reading two (short) books: If On a Winter's Night a Traveler and Holidays on Ice.
We will get into the winter spirit with two short books this month. Read one, or both, and come take a break from Winter Festivities to discuss.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.
Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris is a 1997 collection of essays and stories about Christmas, some new and some previously published, by David Sedaris. Sedaris is named by Time as America's Favorite Humorist and was named by The Economist as one of the funniest writers alive.
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