Slackers Book Club


"The book club for people who don't want to be committed"

Slackers

When

Whenever. Just help yourself to some good reading…no meetings to attend.

Where

Slackers titles are displayed each month on a shelf near the Bestsellers display area. If you are interested in sharing your opinions of the book, just fill out a Slackers’ bookmark comment form, and leave it in the book when you return it. OR you can submit your comments online, right here at the Slackers page. Just use the link at the end of the book description.

Who

For people who don’t want to be committed! Each month a new book is selected for the Slackers’ display.

Current Selection

New Slacker Title: That Old Cape Magic

August  2010

This new Slacker title is the perfect book to wind down the summer on the beach with.  According to The Washington Post -  The book’s two-part structure is simple and elegant: two weddings, a year apart, the first on Cape Cod, the second in Maine. Russo’s focus in both parts is on Jack Griffin, a 57-year-old English professor who’s having a “middle-age meltdown.” Even while the wedding march plays for members of the younger generation, he’s busy fumbling his own 34-year marriage. Griffin loves his wife, but “his dissatisfaction had become palpable.” He’s bored with teaching, and he hankers after the excitement of his Hollywood writing days. His bigger problem, though, is that he still harbors enough “pathological resentment” toward his parents for a therapists’ convention. He’s been carting his father’s ashes around in the trunk of his car for nine months, waiting for just the right moment to let go of the mortal remains of the man who drove him crazy. And meanwhile, his 85-year-old mother keeps heckling him from her nursing home. It’s a sign of Russo’s comic genius that these two hilariously acerbic parents — one on the phone, the other in an urn — just about steal the show.  Richard Russo has written a novel for people who are terrified of becoming their parents, which is to say for everybody.

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