For June’s book club we decided to pick an author instead of a book. Read any book or short story by David Sedaris and come to a meeting on Monday, June 16th at 6:30PM or Thursday, June 19th at 10:30AM.

Remember, David Sedaris does radio too! To go to the This American Life website and listen to some of his stories for free, click here.

Join us in May to discuss Malcolm Gladwell’s second book, Blink, and learn about why we make the decisions we do (and why we sometimes make them better when we think about them less). Malcolm Gladwell is the author of The Tipping Point and a writer for the New Yorker. Check out his webpage (and his cool hair)

For April’s meeting, we choose Marina Lewycka’s A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, which is not actually a short history of tractors in Ukrainian (good thing, since I don’t have time to learn Ukrainian) but an “unusual and poignant novel” (Publisher’s Weekly) telling the story of two sisters living in England who discover that their elderly, widowed father has fallen head over heels for a woman half his age.

“Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blond Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.” (first sentences of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian)

For March we chose the book Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell. To learn more about Sarah Vowell’s humorist social commentary or to link to some of her radio clips, check out her entry in Wikipedia. Remember, February’s book is Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Copies are available at the circulation desk; grab one now so you can read it before the next meeting.

We just chose our book for February! It will be Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Copies will be available at the January meetings. Remember, our book for January is Reading Lolita in Tehran

Because meetings have been crowded, we’re going to open up a second date for the book club. We’ll still meet Monday night, so don’t feel like you have to switch but if it’s more convenient, we’ll also have a meeting on Thursday mornings at 10:30PM. Same book, same group, just a different time. Let me know if you can come to the second meeting!

Next meeting dates: Monday, January 28th, 6:30-8PM

OR Thursday, January 31st, 10:30AM-noon

The next book club meeting is Monday, December 17th at 6:30 in the auditorium. Join us as we discuss Joshua Ferris’s debut novel, Then We Came to the End.