Book Club Streak Broken

After reading 18 books in a row (& attending the same number of physical meetups) for the book club, I didn't read 2 of the books for this year. I usually don't attend the meetup if I didn't read the book. This year I ended up missing 3 meetups cos was away last month for the last meetup of the year even though I read the book (On The Road by Jack Kerouac).

I only ever read physical copies of books which I usually borrow from the library. I managed to borrow Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih (June) from Uma who'd suggested it last year for book club. I decide that I'm not gonna buy anymore books this year after buying spree in the past 3 years (I bought alot of books for book club). So I didn't read the books in August & October this year cos the physical books aren't available to borrow at local libraries.

V chuffed that 2 of the books this year were my suggestions: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (July) & To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (September). Rachel (Book Club organiser) kindly held a watch party at her apartment on National Day for the 1992 film adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans (Director: Michael Mann | Lead Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis). Also v pleased to attend the watch party & make the acquaintance of giant Golden Retriever dog that Rachel was dog-sitting.

This year I read 2 books from previous book club meetups:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (May 2019) & I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (June 2020).

Naturally, I re-watched the 2019 film adaptation of Little Women (Director/Screenplay Adaptation: Greta Gerwig | Lead Actor: Saoirse Ronan) on library dvd after reading the Little Women book. Twas my 1st time to re-watch it after watching it at the cinema in February 2020 with a group of fellow book club members - I co-organised the watch party with Rachel & was in charge of buying the tickets in advance.

Coincidentally this was just around the time publicity for Gerwig's upcoming Barbie film was reaching fever pitch for the cinematic release in July this year, debuting the same week as Christopher Nolan's film Oppenheimer.

In 2020 while watching Little Women in the cinema, I was thinking: "Gerwig is doing a Christopher Nolan!" Cos the film adaptation started in the middle of the book's story and the storyline went back & forth throughout the film. And we all know Nolan's signature non-linear storytelling techniques in Memento (2000) & The Prestige (2005).

Fun fact: I haven't watched Barbie or Oppenheimer 😜 I received email mailer that the newly opened Golden Village x The Projector at Orchard Cineleisure (GV x TP) has $3 Barbie screenings - dunno if I have any chance of watching that?