February's Selection

For our February meeting we will be reading Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier, by Wallace Stegner

Video of Interview with Mark Greenside

More Info on Mark Greenside, author of I'll Never be French

Read more about Mark and I'll Never be French;
See a description of his short story collection, published as I Saw a Man Hit His Wife;
Peruse the beautiful French countryside through Mark's photos;
Click here to visit Mark's website

January's Selection

Our choice for February was I'll Never be French (no matter what I do): Living in a Small Village in Brittany, by Mark Greenside. Members gave it rave reviews for humor and the charming glimpses of Breton villagers. And, the highlight of our January meeting was an author visit by Mark, himself, a friend of Danuta!

New Schedule

Hi Book Club,
This is the new lineup of books and dates:
Nov 16, Finding Nouf, by Zoe Ferraris
Dec 7, Elegance of the Hedgehog, by Muriel Babery
Jan 25, Classic by William Styron (Yvonne will let us know the title)
To Be Scheduled: Reading my Pins, by Madeleine Albright,
and I'll Never Be French, author event with Mark Greenside
Happy Halloween!
Danuta

Finding out more about recommendations

Want to read more about the books we're considering for next year? A new column on the blog shows the cover for each "nominee." Click on this cover,  or the book's title,  and you'll get a pop-up window from LibraryThing.  You may not find the abbreviated info in this window particularly revealing, BUT, look for two oval bars - one for LibraryThing, and one for Amazon.

Click on the oval bar with the Amazon logo to transfer to Amazon.com. Many of you have probably looked on Amazon to read reviews about books.

Click on the oval bar with LibraryThing to see what LibraryThing members think about the book. If you're not familiar with the LibraryThing approach, scroll down to the bottom for user-submitted reviews.

Enjoy! Questions? Post them here as comments, or email Michelle. You may also notify the blog administrator, who has buckled to member demands and changed her identification to "Your Faithful Administrator."

Book to Consider

I'd like to propose Outwitting History: The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books, by Aaron Lansky.

It's inspiring and funny, a true story about a student who travels throughout NYC at all times of the day, in any type of weather, to rescue collections of Yiddish-language books, and thereby preserving some of the only existing written forms of the language.

Michelle