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Introduction
The ‘Souls Book Club was created on June 9th 2009. Our group offers you the opportunity to discover new books and share your opinions with the rest of the community. Although we’ll be keeping a list of participants, membership is not necessary. We also encourage everyone to jump in and take part in discussions. Additionally, voting will no longer take place via polls, as some people seem to take advantage of the system and use multiple characters to nominate their entries. In the future, we’ll have everyone private message this account with their nominations. Any questions you may have can also be directed to us via PMs.


Fun Fact: Our slogan (In Libris Veritas) located on the header image above is latin for "In books we find truth."


This Month
Meghann and Shannon's suggestions were chosen for the month of July. You can read one or the other, or if you'd prefer, both of the books. It is recommended that you find them before July 1st; that way you'll have a whole month to read them. Discussion will start on August 1st.


Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America. Most of all, it is a meditation on love--love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.


"Despite its lascivious reputation, the pleasures of Lolita are as much intellectual as erogenous. It is a love story with the power to raise both chuckles and eyebrows. Humbert Humbert is a European intellectual adrift in America, haunted by memories of a lost adolescent love. When he meets his ideal nymphet in the shape of 12-year-old Dolores Haze, he constructs an elaborate plot to seduce her, but first he must get rid of her mother. In spite of his diabolical wit, reality proves to be more slippery than Humbert's feverish fantasies, and Lolita refuses to conform to his image of the perfect lover." -- Amazon.ca



The Cider House Rules by John Irving
First published in 1985, The Cider House Rules is John Irving's sixth novel. Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--saint and obstetrician, founder and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Cloud's, ether addict and abortionist. It is also the story of Dr. Larch's favorite orphan, Homer Wells, who is never adopted.


"Superb in scope and originality, a novel as good as one could hope to find from any author, anywhere, anytime. Engrossing, moving, thoroughly satisfying."--Joseph Heller



Participating This Month

AG
Alli
Diavo
Jassy
Jenny
Jessica
Kat
Kristina
Libri
Meghann
Miyu
Rhenna
Rust
Sara joe
Shannon B
Shannon H
Sol
Syd


Total : 18


Special thanks to Marit for making us this beautiful table!



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