WAITING FOR AN ANGEL

HELON HABILA

Next meeting: Saturday November 10, 2008


This one lost out for now.

SPLIT DECISION

Saturday turned out to be a lovely day for BookClub. Four of us got together - Janice, AnneMarie, and Ann, as well as yours truly. We had regrets from Greta and Art but not a peep out of Tony. I imagine he was sailing the bay on such a glorious day.
We entertained Greta's request to read something by the new French Nobel laureate but decided that it is too soon to go looking for these books at the library or bookstore. We would like to read something by LeClezio in the future when his books are more readily available.
Janice brought two books for us to consider for next time: Waiting for an Angel, by Helon Habila, the story of an idealistic journalist in Lagos; and God's Bits of Wood, by Sembene Ousmane, about the 1947-48 uprising of railway workers in Dakar.
We compared density of type on the page and chose Waiting for an Angel.