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Book Results!

Again, the survey results were very close but here are the books for the rest of the year: August September October November December/ January The Hour I First Believed The Zookeeper’s Wife The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Devil in the White City Picture of Dorian Gray Wally Lamb Diane…

May 2009

Book: The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson When: Friday, May 29th @ 7pm Where: Jenn’s House Synopsis An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of time…The narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells…

April 2009

Book: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan When: Friday, April 24th @ 7pm Where: Ellie’s House Description From Publishers Weekly In his hugely influential treatise The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Pollan traced a direct line between the industrialization of our food supply and the degradation of the environment. His new book…

2nd Quarter Book Choices

Results are in from the survey and it was super close on many of them! Here’s what you have to look forward to over the next few months. 🙂 April May June July In Defense of Food The Gargoyle Freakonomics &/or The Tipping Point Anthem Michael Pollan Andrew Davidson Steven…

March 2009

Book: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath When: Friday, March 27th @ 7pm Where: Amanda’s House Description The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful –…

February 2009

Happy Valentine’s! Book: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold When: Friday, February 27th @ 7pm Where: Tracy’s Apt Description From Publishers Weekly Sebold’s first novel after her memoir, Lucky is a small but far from minor miracle. Sebold has taken a grim, media-exploited subject and fashioned from it a story…

January 2009

Happy New Year!!! Book: Chick Flick Road Kill by Alicia Bettensdorf When: Friday, January 30th @ 7pm Where: Jill’s House (map coming soon) Description As a child of the 1980s, Alicia Rebensdorf was raised by TV and movies. But when she, like so many of her generation, found herself a…