Reading Group alert: Fresh out of the box, literally
The Sense of an Ending has arrived.
Evan, bottlerocket, turmukoy, scheherazade, samantha, angus25, mcmorco, balqis, Chus — Please pick up your copies at the party on Thursday. Sorry we only ordered ten copies for the Reading Group; we didn’t expect so many readers to be interested. But this is good!
The Sense of an Ending will be available at National Bookstore branches next week.
Our Reading Group posts commence Monday, 14 November 2011. We’ll start with a general introduction and guide. The Reading Group is open to all interested readers.
The Sense of an Ending Reading Group is sponsored by National Bookstore. Special thanks to Louella Tumaneng at the fiction department.
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We only meant to take a peek but we ended up reading the entire book. Yes it’s only 163 pages but it is insidious by design: you have to read it again, immediately, in order to resolve the questions in your head. The Sense of an Ending is narrated by a man who doesn’t get it, who looks back on his life through heavily-edited memory to try to see what he’s missed.
Exquisite and terrifying, The Sense of an Ending is not recommended for readers who need that overvalued quantity, “closure”. The author never promised a definitive ending: look at his title.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
November 5th, 2011 at 20:23
Syempre, inassume ko na hindi ako kasali, haha. I skipped the first few names thinking I’d be mentioned last. Biglang nag-sad face ako dahil hindi ko nakita ang pangalan ko nung unang basa; buti na lang chineck ko lahat ng pangalan. Will get out of the office early to make it! See you everyone. :-)
November 5th, 2011 at 21:18
Thank you! Very happy I’m one of the ten! See you on Thursday.
November 5th, 2011 at 21:47
Wow. Finally won a raffle!
will make sure to finish this biography of jobs in one week, so i can focus on the barnes. Excited to join the discussion.
Thank you, jessica. Thank you, nbs.
November 5th, 2011 at 22:00
Not a raffle. We just picked the volunteers with a history of posting coherent comments.
November 6th, 2011 at 08:26
Thank you so much for choosing me! I am a Julian Barnes virgin and I have never joined a reading group before.
November 6th, 2011 at 19:09
Wow, I feel honored. I now have additional reasons to attend the party. Thanks! :D
November 6th, 2011 at 19:45
Jessica!
Thanks!
I just checked the calendar and your party falls on a Thursday night and alas, my boss will not let me off at 6PM on a weekday (like normal people). I’d have to come up with nothing short of a heart attack, and I’ve already used that excuse.
Better to give my copy to someone who’s there. But I will join your reading group. I thoroughly enjoyed Blood Meridian, and I will never read McCarthy again in this lifetime =)
November 6th, 2011 at 22:52
Ooooh….
November 8th, 2011 at 23:12
Hey Jessica, I’m joining the reading group. Just got the ebook version. I can’t guarantee coherent posts. I will read this drunk.
November 12th, 2011 at 00:52
Hi jessica. Someone mustve taken last night the copy that should have been mine :-( well, probably a punishment for being so late (sorry, your corporate fans came from a teambuilding at punta fuego)
Anyway, If there’s no more left, can I just be the first pick in the next reading group? :-)
I’ll buy my own copy this round. Thanks very much.
November 13th, 2011 at 01:25
turmukoy: Sorry, our fault. You can have first dibs in the next Reading Group.
November 13th, 2011 at 14:31
Read it in one sitting last week after reading Amsterdam and after watching Mar Ardentro. Would there be a group meeting for this? I need to socialize.