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Book Club Discussion List 2007-08

 

September 26     

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (Novel of life under Nazi occupation recently discovered and published 64 years after the author’s death at Auschwitz.)

October 24

Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (Fictional History takes place in Montana in 1909)

November 27

Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table by Ruth Reichl (Memoir offers hilarious and sad recollections where her mother’s manic depression resulted in hazardous meals.)

December 19

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Fictional memoir of a nineteenth century Chinese woman)

January 30

Florence of Arabia by Christopher Buckley (Comic Satire takes on Arab-American relations)

February 27

The Faith Club A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew –Three Woman Search for Understanding by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Patricia Warner

March 19

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Novel set in the Circus World circa 1932)

April 30

Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maughan (Fiction set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920’s) A showing of the movie will be before the discussion.

May 28

Book Selection Meeting 

June 18

Eat, Pray Love One Woman’s search for Everything across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert