Lucca English Book Club

Our book for March 2025 will be The Fraud by Zadie Smith. From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believed.  Description from Goodreads . Our meeting will be on March 27th.   Check us out on Facebook for more details https://www.facebook.com/groups/116095441736716/ Enjoy your reading!

Dear Readers,  Samantha Harvey's "Orbital"  is an account of a day in the life of six astronauts of different nationalities, four men and two women, in the International Space Station as it completes 16 orbits of the Earth. There is no plot to speak of, and we learn little of their individual personalities and backgrounds. The mundanity of their tasks and routines in their contained micro world contrasts with the awesomeness of the real world visible through their windows and the extraordinary beauty of the constantly changing Earth viewed from space, where national boundaries have no significance and wars are invisible. Samantha Harvey has said that her objective was to write "a kind of space pastoral", a meditation on our precious planet, and that the six humans are simply "part of the image, not the lens". The book (novel?) combines luminous descriptions with impressive research, and we thought she just a...