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Rome in July

June 10, 2010 at 10:36 am by Olivia Just

Also from The New Yorker: The Book Bench blog has chosen Tom Rachman’s “The Imperfectionists” as their July book club selection. I’m very excited by this — I’m currently 3/4 of the way through Rachman’s debut novel, which I’ve all but inhaled in the past few days. It’s one of those books that acts on the mind like a bag of potato chips; you sit down intending to read just a few pages or only one chapter, and you wind up eating the whole darn bag (don’t mistake my meaning, though – this book is no lightweight fluff).
The intertwining tales of the alternately lazy, overworked, under-motivated or just plain harassed staff of an English-language newspaper in Rome are simultaneously hilarious and tragic, ludicrous and painfully real, sharply written and…well, I’ll stop. Just go out and read the book. Full review pending.

Olivia Just

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For November, I'll be reading American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham, which won the Pulitzer Prize last year. We'll update our book club selection for December and January shortly.

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