Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides received top honors as Book-of -the-Year at the December Book & Brew gathering Wednesday. Our bookclub has the most wonderful web site possible, visited somewhat regularly by almost half of our nine members. Apparently a quintessential core in this group actually read their email, reviewed the data on our website, and voted five strong for Middlesex, although truth be told, the whole group is monolithic in it's opinion and would have voted likewise if they could read the one sentence request in their various in-baskets.
Which is not to say we don't acrimoniously bicker over what's a chick book, it's just that we all have great taste in books.
Middlesex was competing against:
The Good German - Kanon
Whistling Season - Doig
All Quiet on the Orient Express - Mills
Thank You for Smoking - Buckley
Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Collapse - Diamond
Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Sharpes Tiger - Cornwell
Maritime brew received top honors in a similar "read the instructions and then vote if you remember to" scenerio.
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