New Book Club Pick

Well I hope the new book club pick isn't coming too soon. I know my dad and I have finished Huckleberry Finn. It wasn't as captivating as I remember as a young girl however it reinforced my thoughts on it's pioneering efforts in satirical American literature.

That said, lets push on. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, another classic in American literature. The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers and led to an increase in organized crime. Although Fitzgerald, like Nick Carraway in his novel, idolized the riches and glamor of the age, he was uncomfortable with the unrestrained materialism and the lack of morality that went with it.

The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in Long Island's North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922.

So get excited and start reading! I will start a new discussion thread on the Book Club Discussion link.