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NEWSLETTER
MARCH 2008
JEWISH BOOK CLUB
Notes of a meeting held Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 at the home of Bee Korn.
Present: Ruth Collins, Jonathan Dangour, Bee
Korn, Maureen and Barry Leveton, Phyll and Ed Mendelsohn, Beverly and Byron Simmonds, Ruth
Woolfson. Apologies: Jill Brahams.
The book, which had been suggested by
Maureen, was The Righteous Men by Sam Bourne.
NEXT MEETING: 7:30 PM ON MONDAY,
APRIL 14TH, 2008
At the home of Beverly
and Byron Simmonds
The Book: Flights of Love by Bernard
Schlink
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Paperback:
320 pages
Publisher: Phoenix (1 Nov 2007)
ISBN 978-0753813973'Perfectly crafted, intricate
and haunting stories' from the bestselling author of THE READER.
A mesmeric collection of stories about love. In his characteristically unsentimental,
elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships haunted by betrayal
and guilt, in situations where self-examination is inescapable. FLIGHTS OF LOVE consists
of seven stories, all of them weaving around the idea of love - why people are drawn to it
and why some run away. Schlink shows us in turn love as desire, love as confusion, love as
a quick affair, love as a drastic life-changing rebellion, love as a force of habit, love
as self-betrayal. The cumulative effect is a book which uses effortlessly beguiling
language to examine the universal human desire to find a lasting loving relationship,
however thwarted that desire ultimately is.
Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany in 1944. A professor of law at the University of
Berlin and a practising judge, he is the author of the major international best-selling
novel The Reader as well as several prize-winning crime novels. He lives in Bonn and
Berlin. (amazon.co.uk)
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The
Jewish Book Club is open to members and friends (both Jewish and non-Jewish) of both the
Progressive Jewish Community of East Anglia and the Norwich Hebrew Congregation, as well
as to Jews who are members of neither congregation.
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| Contacts: |
Byron Simmonds |
bsimmonds@pjcea.org.uk |
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Maureen Leveton |
MLeveton@aol.com
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JOIN
THE CLUB!
Book clubs are a great idea at any time.
First of all you get to read a book.
We hate to admit it, but in the case of the
Jewish Book Club, even reading the book is not obligatory. Although it does help. Of
course, that does mean you have to make the time. So, no more Big Brother!
Jewish Book Club meetings are relaxed. Nothing too
serious. In fact, nothing serious at all. It's all about getting out and having a friendly
chat. And maybe, every so often, offering your home for a meeting (also, not obligatory)
So, give it a go. We are waiting to hear from you.
Support your Jewish community!
— Byron Simmonds, Maureen Leveton
Note: The Jewish Book Club meets once every six weeks or
thereabouts.
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