When: Feb. 28- Tuesday
Time: 1:00- 3:00
Where: Donna C.
RSVP: donnaclarke109 {at} hotmail(.)com by Monday, Feb. 27
Our book will be Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay. This is a haunting World War II story that was made into a movie.
We welcome new members so think about attending one of our meetings. If you have any questions (except to RSVP), please call the Chairperson, Suzanne Z.
Mar. – The Tigers’s Wife by Tea Obreht
When: Jan. 24 – Tuesday
Time: 1:00- 3:00 PM
Where: Suzanne Z.
RSVP: sziarnik {at} att(.)net by Monday, Jan. 23
Our book will be The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd. The heroin of this novel has a midlife crisis that involves an island in South Carolina.
We welcome new members so think about attending one of our meetings. If you have any questions (except to RSVP), please call the Chairperson, Suzanne Z.
Feb. – Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Event: Holiday Luncheon for the Book Club
Date: Dec. 13- Tuesday
Time: 12:30 PM
Where: Piatti Restaurant, 100 Sycamore Valley Rd. W., Danville
The book club will meet at a delightful local restaurant in December. The menu is varied and has something for everyone. The club will not select a book for December, but I ask you to share one interesting nonfiction book and tell the group about it. Please RSVP to Suzanne Z. by Sunday, Dec. 11, so I can notify the restaurant. If you have any questions, please call Suzanne.
Jan. – The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Feb. – Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
When: Tuesday, Oct. 25
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Where: Pat G.
RSVP: pbgross {at} aol(.)com (by Monday, Oct. 24)
Our book will be The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King. This is the first of the Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mystery novels.
The narrator of The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Mary Russell, is a brilliant but unhappy young woman, recently orphaned and now heir to a sizeable estate, who literally stumbles over the retired detective in the middle of the Sussex Downs. When she and Holmes meet, she is fifteen and he is fifty-four, but the two form an instantaneous friendship which soon becomes a partnership as he begins to teach her the art of detecting. They pursue a succession of cases together, but what began as a pleasant diversion swiftly turns into a deadly game of chess with a mysterious, ruthless enemy from Holmes’s past.”
We welcome new members so think about attending one of our meetings.
When: July 26 – Tuesday
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Where: Pauline G.
RSVP Pauline: pgagnon202 {at} hotmail(.)com , by Monday, July 25
Our book will be The Beautiful Assassin by Michael White. This intriguing tale of a Soviet sniper is fiction based on an actual person.
We welcome new members so think about attending one of our meetings. If you have any questions (except to RSVP), please call the Chairperson, Suzanne 830-8339.
When: May 24 – Tuesday
Time: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Where: Nairy C.
RSVP: ncolello {at} yahoo(.)com by Monday, May 23
Our book will be The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. The story examines the ethics of using cancer cells that became the HeLa cell line and of Mrs. Lacks from whom they were extracted. An HBO movie is in the works.
We welcome new members so think about attending one of our meetings. If you have any questions (except to RSVP), please call the Chairperson, Suzanne Z.
From: Book Club
When: April 26 – Tuesday
Time: 1:00- 3:00
Where: Marie Callender Restaurant, 18070 San Ramon Valley Blvd., San Ramon
RSVP: Suzanne sziarnik {at} att(.)net by Monday, April 25
Our book will be Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. This is a series of short stories in which Olive is the common thread.
We welcome new members so think about attending one of our meetings. If you have any questions please call the Chairperson, Suzanne at email above.
May – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Date: Dec. 14- Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Where: Esin Restaurant, 750 Camino Ramon (at the Rose Garden), Danville
The book club will meet at a delightful local restaurant in December. The menu is varied and has something for everyone. The club will not select a book for December, but I ask you to share one interesting nonfiction book and tell the group about it.
Please RSVP to Suzanne Ziarnik at 830-8339 by Sunday, Dec. 12, so I can notify the restaurant. If you have any questions, please call Suzanne Ziarnik.
In January our book will be – Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Book Club – Nov. 2010
When: Nov. 9 – Tuesday
Time: 1:00- 3:00 PM
Where: Linda M.
RSVP: By Monday, Nov. 8 – See newsletter for details
Our book will be The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Synopsis
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen’s best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody’s business, but she can’t mind her tongue, so she’s lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women–mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends–view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t.
Our book will be Shanghai Girls by Lisa See. This is a splendid story of two pampered women who grow up in Shanghai and their harrowing journey to become American in Los Angeles’ Chinatown.
We welcome new members so think about attending one of our meetings. If you have any questions (except to RSVP), please call the Chairperson, Suzanne Z. 830-8339.
Nov.-The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Dec.-no book for December
