May Selection

Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town, by Nick Reding.

March Selection

Breathe, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

Generation A

Had a really fun book club for Generation A - most folks agreed the book was quite enjoyable to read if not very challenging. Here's the quote the apparently inspired the title:

"Now you young twerps want a new name for your generation? Probably not, you just want jobs, right? Well, the media do us all such tremendous favors when they call you Generation X, right? Two clicks from the very end of the alphabet. I hereby declare you Generation A, as much at the beginning of a series of astonishing triumphs and failures as Adam and Eve were so long ago."
—Kurt Vonnegut
Syracuse University commencement address
May 8, 1994

Finally took some pictures of the conversation - here are a few cute pics!


We choose two books to read next. First a book by Haitian author Edwidge Danticat: Breath, Eyes, Memory. BTW, there's an article by Danticat in the New Yorker about the earthquake that is really beautiful. And the following month we have another non-fiction selection: Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

January 2010

The next book we've chosen to read is Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters: From Dating, Shopping, and Praying to Going to War and Becoming a Billionaire-- Two Evolutionary Psychologists Explain Why We Do What We Do . How's that for a title?

Olive Kitteridge

The next book chosen is Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. It won the Pulitzer in 2009 and is recently out in paperback.

K's sister C's book club happens to be reading the same book - will our "sister book club" say hello and tell us what they thought?

A High Wind in Jamaica

The next selection is Richard Hughes' A High Wind in Jamaica.

It's got PIRATES!

I first heard about it in this review on NPR (careful, it's kind of spoiler-y)

Check out that cover art by Chicago artist Henry Darger!

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

August selection.