October 11th Selection

2011 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner

PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner

August 30 Book Club Selection

August selection
An Ann Patchett recommendation!

Soaked by a miserable rain, Father Declan de Lowry swats midges and unsuccessfully casts for salmon while mulling the deathbed confession of a parishioner from the tiny Irish village of Roonatellin. The good priest is frantic to know why Kevin Dennehy refused to the end to marry Enda, who lived as his wife for decades with none suspecting their sin. When pressed, Kevin would only say, "there's some explanations that get you nowhere." That leaves it to Enda, an Irish Scheherazade, to breathlessly tell Father "the all of it," a wild, eyebrow-raising tale that meanders like sheep on the narrow roads. Her enthusiasm and Jeannette Haien's musical, evocative phrasing sweep this winning, humorous novel along.

Summer Reading Recommendations

In July, Roberta Rubin, owner of the Book Stall walked around with me and gave me her summer reading suggestions for the book club, they are as follows below:

Caleb's Crossing  Geraldine Brooks
Years of Wonder, also Geraldine Brooks
People of the Book, also Geraldine Brooks
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Jamie Ford
Broken for you, Stephanie Kallos
Still Alice, Lisa Genova
Mariette in Ecstasy, Ron Hansen
Ten Thousand Saints, Elenor Henderson
Children of Fire, Ursula Hegi  (Author of Stones from the River)

Also,
The following books were compiled at the June book club.  Each one is better than the next.

State of Wonder author, Ann Patchett with members of Kenilworth Fireside Book Club

 Ann Patchett, best selling author of Bel Canto and current book club selection, State of Wonder spoke about her friends, family and her book at the Women's Athletic Club.

Rose McGowan, Mariam Pahl, Ann Patchett, Gay Weber and Katie Sutter

Kenilworth Book Clubber Gay Weber meets Lisa See

Tuesday May 14 Lisa See, bestselling author of Shanghai Girls and #1 NYT bestseller  Dreams of Joy with Gay Weber at the Women's Writer Series lunch.

Women Writer's Series

Wednesday, June 22

Ann Patchett

State of Wonder

The best selling author of Bel Canto and The Magician's Assistant will be at the Woman's Athletic Club at noon for a Luncheon.  Contact the Book Stall for information  847.446.8880

The Lit-Byte...........Tech News to Use

Keyless Nook Beats Kindle for Easy E-Reading: 
2011-06-08 20:00:00.0 GMT
   June 9 (Bloomberg) -- As impressed as I am with Amazon.com
Inc. for launching the electronic-book market, there’s one thing
about the groundbreaking Kindle that I could do without: its
keyboard.