Carolyn B. will be hosting Monday January 03 2011

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone after the holidays. I feel that we kicked off the holidays together and now we can commiserate all of the overindulgences. One thing I know for sure is that there will be no bloody meat on the menu. Get your gore on.

Time: 7pm

Address: 508 Brunswick Ave.

Out: a novel by Natsuro Kirino

Four women who work the night shift in a Tokyo factory that produces boxed lunches find their lives twisted beyond repair in this grimly compelling crime novel, which won Japan's top mystery award. Despite the female bonding, this dark, violent novel is more evocative of Gogol or Dostoyevsky than Thelma and Louise. When Yayoi, the youngest and prettiest of the women, strangles her philandering gambler husband with his own belt in an explosion of rage, she turns instinctively for help to her co-worker Masako, an older and wiser woman whose own family life has fallen apart in less dramatic fashion. To help her cut up and get rid of the dead body, Masako recruits Yoshie and Kuniko, two fellow factory workers caught up in other kinds of domestic traps.