DECEMBER’S BOOK 📚 : The Crying of Lot 49

- Thomas Pynchon (2015, 100+ pages, USA):

Books & Beers! Literature & Libations! Alcohol & Alliterations! We are here to provide it all with Teddy’s Book Club, meeting on the second Sunday of each month at 6:30 pm. Amanda will be hosting, and we’ll discuss the monthly selections and choose what we’d like to read for the upcoming month. We hope you’ll join us - but even if you can’t, please still get the book and talk to Amanda about it! Or - even better - strike up a conversation with someone else who is also reading it this month.

Amanda’s Commentary:

Pynchon, oh approachable Pynchon! Although, by ‘approachable,’ I mostly mean ‘not crazy long.’ I guess I can best describe it as a kind of noir novel about mail distribution systems? This is a paranoid, funny, and densely packed novella by an author you probably KNOW you should have read something from. As a group, we are seeming to revel in postmodern lit, and this is a super solid choice to continue our exploration of the style.

Please support your local bookstores! We are part of Changing Hand’s featured book clubs - which means a discount for you: 10% off paperbacks, 20% off hardcovers; in-store and online. Just mention us! Online, you’ll mention us in the ‘comments’ section, and the discount will be manually applied.

If you have any questions please reach out to Amanda at AmandaFilmClub@gmail.com