Book Club Information for February - May 2011

February book - The Glory by Herman Wouk
@ Arnie's
Tuesday, 22 Feburary

March book - Good Poems for Hard Times edited by Garrison Keillor
@ Michael Kuhne's home
Browse/skim the book and find 3-5 poems that you like; it might be fun to read them at the meeting
Tuesday, 15 March

April Book - Four Fish by Paul Greenberg
@ Mike Bander's home
Tuesday, 12 April

May Book - If I Never Get Back by Darryl Brock
@ Ira's home
DATE TBD

July 2010 The Big Short

The July 2010 book is Michael Lewis' The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (New York and London: WW Norton, 2010.  266 pages.).

80 pages in and I go as easily be reading Greek.  I know so little about finance that it is embarrassing.  Somebody please: elucidate.

June 2010 - Everything is Illuminated

You can't really make this out on the photo, but the sign on top of the station wagon says "Heritage Tours," which for readers of the book needs no explanation.

We read Jonathan Safer Foer's Everything is Illuminated for June's book club.  If anything, I though the group was non-plussed.  Some were so uninspired that they hadn't finished the book, and those who had - well, we didn't seem to have much to say about it, which is strange.  Whether one likes the book or not, there is plenty going on: Jewish-Americans searching for their roots; Eastern Europeans confronting their complicity with the Nazis; Ukranians making a living guiding tourists to places of tremendous tragedy; the sites of holocaust and anti-semitic violence being turned into tourist destinations; and so on.  It's definitely a partial list. 

Photograph
ruxielulu
Flickr Creative Commons

Fun discussion last night! Look forward to seeing you all at my house on April 6th.
If you want to read a review of the book:
http://www.randomhouse.com/kvpa/cormacmccarthy/

The Blog is Now Public

Gentlemen, I have changed the settings so that the blog is now public and no longer private.  As we agreed, don't post any home addresses or telephone numbers. 

The next book is Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and we meet Tuesday, April 6, at Arnie's. 

The image is for Steve, certainly, but also to provide a context for a portion of our conversation:)  If you are interested in the Tour de Ski footage, I have embedded the link to a short 31/2 minute video montage of Kalla's race to the top.  She is, as my daughter would say, a beast. 

                                                                         

 Charlotte Kalla, Olympic Gold Medalist expressen.se (Google images)

Finally, Mike mentioned BookTV.org.  Follow the link; it's great stuff.

Faulkner Link to Plantation Diary

Based on the high level of enjoyment and my impulse to nurture that joy, for your reading pleasure, here is an article from the New York Times from Wednesday, 10 February. 

March Book

I'm sorry for the delay on the March book. I hope you all enjoy the read.

"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer (332 pages)

It received a very high rating.

Mike Ferlic