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November Book Club

November Book Club Schedule

Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland

Tuesday, November 12

7pm

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: a tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and a love that lasts long past death.

back by popular demand........................

 Book Club Updates!!

October Book Selection

TransAtlantic

Oct 9

7 pm

Three iconic transatlantic crossings are connected by a series of remarkable women whose personal stories are caught up in the swells of history. Beginning with Irish housemaid Lily Duggan, who crosses paths with Frederick Douglass, the novel follows her daughter and granddaughter, Emily and Lottie, and culminates in the present-day story of Hannah Carson, in whom all the hopes and failures of previous generations live on.

Other Important Stuff:

***October 8

Jhumpa Lahiri will be in Chicago.  Please join other book club members hearing her speak.

Tickets can be purchased at https://jhumpalahiri.eventbrite.com

The Lowland..... by Jhumpa Lahiri

UK Man Booker Prize short list 2013

US National Book Award short list 2013

Pulitzer Prize Winner

2 rave reviews WSJ Saturday Sept. 21

Chicago Tribune October Book of the Month

4 star People Pick People magazine Sept 2013

............and............

the book is not available until Sept. 24!!

Pretty good buzz for a book that's not out yet!

We loved:

Unbroken.......by Laura Hillenbrand

Is being filmed in Australia, directed by Angela Jolie

Ann Patchett...we loved State of Wonder and lunching with her

at the WAC has a new book coming out Nov 5.  This is The Story of a Happy Marriage.  

It is predicted to be one of the biggest books of the year.

 ***October 1 Isabel Wilkerson is coming to the Harold Washington Library at 6pm.  We loved her book,  The Warmth of Other Suns.  Seating is first come, first served.

January 8 Gillian Flynn pictures and February Update

 I want to share pictures from Tuesday night as a recap.  As we saw with Carol Anshaw, having the author show up at Book Club makes it a great evening.  Gillian Flynn really made discussing Gone Girl a treat.

Thank you to all the gals who make the Book Club such a great monthly event.  You show up every month, help contribute with food and money, have finished the book most months, and genuinely make me feel appreciated for all the work I do.

Yes, I am watching the Golden Globes as I type, but my message would be the same with or without the awards.

Award for Best Supporting Cast Members:

Award for Best Author:

Award for Crew who took first picture:

*****Please read below for February Updates:***************

Upcoming February 12 Book Club

Mariam Pahl will be hosting February's Book Club!  

Mariam Pahl has graciously agreed to host book club if my daughter goes into labor Tuesday night.  Everybody knows how smart and astute she is.  I would love to be Skyped in because Mariam will do an amazing job.  As seen below, she has a great front side, and always gives us her back too.  Mariam photographed Mary Cavs and me meeting Chad Harbaugh at a reception for The Art of Fielding last May.  

February Book Selection

Longlisted for the German Book Prize........(but of course!!!)

A life-long love affair that survives the tribulations of two World Wars, Léon and Louise tells the story of Alex Capus' French grandfather. It charmed readers in Germany, where it sold nearly two hundred thousand copies and, in the year following publication, never left the Der Spiegel bestseller list.

Summer 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close when Léon falls in love with Louise Janvier. Both are severely wounded by German artillery fire, are separated, and believe each other to be dead. Briefly reunited two decades later, the lovers are torn apart again by Louise's refusal to destroy Léon's marriage and the German invasion of France. Through occupied Paris during the Second World War, where Léon struggles against the abhorrent tasks imposed on him by the SS, and the wilds of Africa, where Louise confronts the hardships of her primitive environment, they battle the vicissitudes of history and the passage of time for the survival of their love.

November Book Club Update

Sutton

by

J.R. Moehringer

Tuesday 

November 13

7 pm

Sutton Summary

Born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth century, Willie Sutton came of age at a time when banks were out of control. If they weren't taking brazen risks, causing millions to lose their jobs and homes, they were shamelessly seeking bailouts. Trapped in a cycle of bank panics, depressions and soaring unemployment, Sutton saw only one way out, only one way to win the girl of his dreams.

So began the career of America's most successful bank robber. Over three decades Sutton became so good at breaking into banks, and such a master at breaking out of prisons, police called him one of the most dangerous men in New York, and the FBI put him on its first-ever Most Wanted List.

September Selection......Early selection info!

September 18  Book Club Selection

Carry the One


SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE BY AUTHOR!

Tuesday, Sept 18
7pm

Summary:

Carry the One begins in the hours following Carmen’s wedding reception, when a car filled with stoned, drunk, and sleepy guests accidentally hits and kills a girl on a dark country road. For the next twenty-five years, those involved, including Carmen and her brother and sister, craft their lives in response to this single tragic moment