December book: Collapse by Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed is the glass-half-empty follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel. While Guns, Germs, and Steel explained the geographic and environmental reasons why some human populations have flourished, Collapse uses the same factors to examine why ancient societies, including the Anasazi of the American Southwest and the Viking colonies of Greenland, as well as modern ones such as Rwanda, have fallen apart.

Oct Book: Kingsolver's "Animal, Vegetable and Miracle"

Just in time for the fall local harvest, we will read about Barbara Kingsolver's one year experiment of eating only local food. Steve will serve a special local snack!

November Book: The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon

Join us November for an exciting discussion of Michael Chabon's latest. Evan will be providing Yiddish Glossaries for all non Jewish members of the group.
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Publish Post gt by the first 100 pages and you will enjoy Chabon's clever writing.

June book: the Emporer's Children by Claire Messud

Great group this months discussing the Emporer's Children. We were all taken by the excellent wrting and the story however spending a lot of time with the characters seemed painful. Was this a device to make her point? why did Messud torture us with these characters? The finale pulled the book together and left us questioning a time in history and a certain priveledged group of people.

April Book: Water for Elephants

Life in the 1920s on a circus train.

March book: "What is the What" by Dave Eggers and Valentino Achak Deng

A memoir of one of the "Lost boys" of Sudan - refugees fleeing the violence of southernSudan in the 1980s making their way to refugee camps in Kenya and eventually to the United States.

February book: Seeing by Jose Saramago

A follow up to Blindness- voters cast blank ballots in the capital