Monday, September 15, 2008
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!
Thursday, August 14, 2008
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.
a great read -javascript:void(0)
Publish Post gt by the first 100 pages and you will enjoy Chabon's clever writing.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
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.
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