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September 11, 2008 at 1:26 pm · Filed under Book Club
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes a masterly evocation of an unrequited passion so strong that it binds three people’s lives together for more than fifty years. In the story of Florentino Ariza, who waits more than half a century to declare his undying love to the beautiful Fermina Daza, whom he lost to Dr. Juvenal Urbino so many years before, Garcia Marquez has created a vividly absorbing fictional world, as lush and dazzling as a dream and as real and immediate as our own deepest longings. Now available for the first time in the Contemporary Classics series.
August 8, 2008 at 6:03 am · Filed under Book Club
When: Sep 30- Tuesday
Time: 1:00- 3:00 PM
Where: Sally Powers
RSVP: Sally @ 735-0357 (by Sep 29)
Our book will be Ireland by Frank Delaney
This book is fiction, but it includes much of the history of Ireland told in an entertaining way.
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 Ziarnik or email
Oct. - The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander
Nov. - Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
May 15, 2008 at 5:10 am · Filed under Book Club
When: Jun. 24 - Tuesday
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Where: Karen C., 15 Chardonnay Ct., Danville, CA
RSVP” Karen @ 330-1236 by Monday, Jun. 23
Directions to Karen’s: North on 680, exit Sycamore Valley and go East 4 miles. Turn left on Woodranch; left on Tuscany and left on Chardonnay Ct.
Our book will be The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. This is a shocking autobiography by a woman whose parents end up homeless in New York City. Their path to homelessness is often interesting and unpredictable due to their unique philosophy of life or mental illness or both.
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 Ziarnik.
Coming up in July - Lost and Found by Jacqueline Sheehan
A poignant and unforgettable tale of love, loss, and moving on . . . with the help of one not-so-little dog.
Rocky’s husband Bob was just forty-two when she discovered him lying cold and lifeless on the bathroom floor . . . and Rocky’s world changed forever. Quitting her job, chopping off all her hair, she leaves Massachusetts—reinventing her past and taking a job as Animal Control Warden on Peak’s Island, a tiny speck off the coast of Maine and a million miles away from everything she’s lost. She leaves her career as a psychologist behind, only to find friendship with a woman whose brain misfires in the most wonderful way and a young girl who is trying to disappear. Rocky, a quirky and fallible character, discovers the healing process to be agonizingly slow.
But then she meets Lloyd, a large black Labrador retriever, Lloyd enters Rocky’s world with a primitive arrow sticking out of his shoulder. And so begins a remarkable friendship between a wounded woman and a wounded, lovable beast. As the unraveling mystery of Lloyd’s accident and missing owner leads Rocky to an archery instructor who draws her in even as she finds every reason to mistrust him, she discovers the life-altering revelation that grief can be transformed . . . and joy does exist in unexpected places.
August - No meeting
April 13, 2008 at 2:58 pm · Filed under Book Club
Life in ‘Glass Castle’ only made Walls stronger
Memoir by MSNBC.com’s gossip columnist tells of life that was no fairy tale
REVIEW By Denise Hazlick
MSNBC updated 3:07 p.m. PT, Mon., March. 20, 2006
Jeannette Walls spends most of her time digging up dirt on other people’s lives. As the gossip columnist for MSNBC.com, Walls tracks down the latest rumors about Britney Spears’ marriage, Michael Jackson’s peccadilloes and the latest target on the PETA hit list.
But her road to celebrity gossip columnist was tougher than any angry call she’d ever received from an enraged publicist. In her autobiography, released this week by Scribner, Walls reveals a sad and sometimes tragic childhood that few but her closest friends knew about.
In the opening pages of “The Glass Castle,” Walls recalls watching someone else do a little digging — her mother, searching through a garbage dumpster in lower Manhattan. Walls wastes little time unveiling the dichotomy that is her life — a high-profile Park Avenue reporter with a unconventional and often tragic past that followed her from the hollows of West Virginia to Manhattan.
March 5, 2008 at 10:20 am · Filed under Book Club
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
March 5, 2008 at 10:11 am · Filed under Book Club
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time (Paperback)
January 14, 2008 at 7:50 am · Filed under Book Club
Its time to order your book for March: www.amazon.com
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
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349 of 367 people found the following review helpful:
“Do you intend to tell me the truth?”
Vida Winter, England’s most famous and reclusive writer, is nearing the end, and before she goes she wants her amazing life story to be recorded for posterity. For this, she engages a lonely young biographer, Margaret Lea, who has a few secrets of her own. When these two forceful women meet, the stage is set for an ever-mounting series of shocking surprises…
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January 11, 2008 at 8:26 am · Filed under Book Club
You still have time to order your book for February (follow link).
Our book will be Water for Elephants by Suara Gruen
We welcome new members, so think about attending one of our meetings.
If you have any questions, please call the Chairperson, Suzanne Ziarnik.
November 14, 2007 at 4:11 pm · Filed under Book Club
Date: Dec. 11 - Tuesday
Time: 12:00 Noon
Where: Bridges Restaurant, 44 Church, 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 we ask you to share one inspirational or uplifting book or story, and tell the group about it. Please RSVP to Suzanne Ziarnik at 830-8339 by Thur., Dec. 6, so we can notify the restaurant. We welcome new members so think about attending this special meeting. If you have any questions, please call Suzanne Ziarnik.
Jan. - The Constant Princess by Phillipa Gregory
Feb. - Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Suzanne
March 17, 2007 at 8:07 am · Filed under Book Club
When: April 24 - Tuesday
Time: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Where: Floy Harman’s - 678 El Cerro Blvd., Danville (From 680; exit El Cerro and go east on El Cerro)
RSVP: Floy @ 855-9220 by Monday, April. 23
Our book will be The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason. This novel is the story of a London piano tuner who is asked by the government to travel to Burma in order to tune the piano of a brilliant eccentric doctor who is undertaking diplomacy for the British government. The story evolves as the piano tuner becomes more immersed in the atmosphere of Burma and his strange mission.
We welcome new members so think about attending one of our meetings. If you have any questions (except to RSVP), please call one of the Chairpersons, Floy Harman or Suzanne Ziarnik.
May Book - Too Close to the Falls by Catherine Guildiner
June Book - Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
