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   

Summer Activities: WHAT TO READ NOW

The Book Club is on Summer Vacation

So everyone needs some beach reads!

Check out:

1. Gone Girl     Gillian Flynn........Everyone's reading it, or has.
2. In the Garden of Beasts     Erik Larson
3. Heading out to Wonderful     Robert Goolrick
4. Tell the Wolves I'm Home     Carol Brunt
5. The Age of Miracles     Karen Thompson
6. Tiny Beautiful Things     Cheryl Strayed
7.  Gold Chris Cleave
8. Canada     Richard Ford
9. The Song of Achilles     Madeline Miller
10. Beautiful Ruins     Jess Walter
11. I Am Forbidden     Anouk Markovits
12. American Gods     Neil Gaiman
13. Wild:  From Lost     Cheryl Strayed
14. History of a Pleasure Seeker     Richard Mason
15. Fifty Shades of Grey     E L James
16. A Hologram for the King     Dave Eggers
17. Behind the Beautiful Forevers     Katherine Boo
18. Buddha in the Attic     Julie Otsuka

****  19.  Carry the One     Carol Anshaw (PLEASE SEE BELOW)

Please note!!

The September selection, Carry the One has been chosen early because author Carol Anshaw will be attending our book club.  Please mark your calendars!  We need a good turn out.  I will bring wine and (better) appetizers.
Thanks.

May Club Updates

May 7

Chad Harbaugh, Author of May Selection comes to Chicago:

Printers Row Live:

Chad Harbach, May 7

 

On the bestseller list since it was published "The Art of Fielding." by Chad Harbach is considered by many to be the next great baseball novel, on a shelf with Bernard Malamud’s “The Natural.” Even for those lacking interest in the national pastime, “The Art of Fielding” is a book to inspire conversation about relationships – friendship, love, rivalry – and a world in which characters have books as their touchstones.

Chad Harbach will join Elizabeth Taylor and Rick Kogan on May 7 at a Printers Row Live program at the Latin School of Chicago, 59 W. North Ave. Harbach will meet Printers Row members at a special reception at 6:30 p.m. The program begins at 7.

Tickets for this program are $15

Ticket Link

http://chadharbach.eventbrite.com/

May 8 Book Club Selection:

Tuesday May 8 Book Club Selection

Book Summary:

At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended.

Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and