Book Club Coordinator, Debbie Mascot

I hear from so many that they love to read, but just can’t find the time with the little ones underfoot. While I completely understand, as they get older, remember that if they see you reading for fun, they will be reminded daily that reading if fun.

  If one book a month is too much for you, try one book every two months. We are keeping about three books ahead so
  we have a good lead time on reading. 

  We have a nice evening chatting about the good, the bad and the ugly books we choose and would love to have you join us!
  We are trying something new in 2010 and having meetings at our homes. Whoever has the meeting, chooses the book.
 

February's Book will be discussed Wednesday, February 24th

Sweet Francaise
by Irene Nemirovsky

Synopsis from Barnes and Noble.com:

Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way: a wealthy mother searches for sweets in a town without food; a couple is terrified at the thought of losing their jobs, even as their world begins to fall apart. Moving on to a provincial village now occupied by German soldiers, the locals must learn to coexist with the enemy—in their town, their homes, even in their hearts.

When Irène Némirovsky began working on Suite Française, she was already a highly successful writer living in Paris. But she was also a Jew, and in 1942 she was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where she died. For sixty-four years, this novel remained hidden and unknown.

 

 

March's Book will be discussed Wednesday, March 24th

Outliers
by Malcom Gladwell

Synopsis from Barnes and Noble.com:

Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"—the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. Along the way he explains the secrets of software billionaires, what it takes to be a great soccer player, why Asians are good at math, and what made the Beatles the greatest rock band.
Brilliant and entertaining, OUTLIERS is a landmark work that will simultaneously delight and illuminate.

 

 

 
 

Want a head start on next month's book or just have a question?
Contact our book club coordinator Debbie Mascot for the title