November 14th
Zeitoun
by Dave Eggers Sunday Morning Book Club Archive
This is an archive of former years, just to give a sense of the group. Please feel free to join us, whether as a regular or once-in-a-while participant. To see the curent schedule, please go to the Temple Website
http://www.templenashville.org/index.php?id=55
Please contact Laurie Handshu at lauriehandshu@gmail.com for details or if you would like to be on our email distribution list.We welcome new members and tentative ones--feel free to drop by and see if the book club is for you!
2010-2011
This year we meet mostly in the Family Room at Temple; please check for room changes when you get to the Temple--sometimes weddings get priority!
Recent Books:
The
Frozen Rabbi, by Steve Stern
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Tim Wise
Gourmet Rhapsody, Muriel Barbery
Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
Recent Discussions:
April 18
May 16
Jan
15 - White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son, Tim Wise
Feb 21 -
Gourmet Rhapsody, Muriel Barbery
March
28 - Lacuna, Barbara Kingsolver
We’ll
discuss our next book, Last Rights: Rescuing the End of
Life from the Medical System
by Stephen
Kiernan, on November 22, at 10:00.
September
13: Elegance of the Hedgehog, Muriel Barbery
October 11: Focus*, by Arthur Miller
Summer: Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen,
January
25:
The Suicide Index: Putting my Father's Death in Order, by Joan Wickersham
"In
this harrowing, beautifully written memoir, Joan Wickersham tries to understand
the forces that drove her father to take his own life. Part detective story,
part anguished examination of a family, she traces the myriad repercussions
suicide has not only on the future but also on the past. And she has created the
perfect form in which to stage her inquiry. A powerful, important book."
Abigail Thomas, author of Three Dog Life
February
22:
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, by David Wroblewski
“The Story of Edgar Sawtelle” is not alone, of course, in
its reanimation of “Hamlet” (see Matt Haig’s recent novel “The Dead Fathers
Club,” for example), but it is surely the first to populate it with so many
hounds. Set chiefly in the early 1970s, near the Chequamegon National Forest in
Wisconsin, the novel tells the story of the Sawtelle family, which over the
generations has strived to establish, through an experimental amalgam of
breeding, training and mysticism, the ne plus ultra of the companion dog. (New
York Times; http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/books/review/Peed-t.html)
Tim Russert's Big Russ and Me: Father and Son: Lessons of Life.
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (Thank you, Sheila!)
People of the Book*, Geraldine Brooks
Self-Made Man
Skeletons at the Feast, by Chris Bohjalian
A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving (in conjunction with the
Nashville Library Celebration of John Irving; thanks, all!)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
http://www.saragruen.com/
Unbowed, a Memoir by Wangari Maathai,
winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
The Green Belt Movement |
Books by Wangari Maathai
The Nine, by Jeffey Tobin. Nope, not the Yankees, but those antic-loving, president-making gown and towners the Supreme Court...
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual
Autobiography by Sidney Poitier
Suite Francaise Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com:
This extraordinary work of fiction about the German occupation of France is
embedded in a real story as gripping and complex as the invented one. Composed
in 1941-42 by an accomplished writer who had published several well-received
novels, Suite Française, her last work, was written under the tremendous
pressure of a constant danger that was to catch up with her and kill her before
she had finished.
The Witch of Portebello, Paulo Coelho
The Jewish Policeman’s Union, Michael Chabon
---Books we've read so far include Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion Maggie Anton's Rashi's Daughters, Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle, Anne Tyler's Digging to America, The First Desire* by Nancy Reisman, Freakonomics, David Barton, Points, Orham Pamuk (Nobel Laureate) Snow, Michal Lerner, The Left Hand of God*, The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks, Chicken Dreaming Corn* by Roy Hoffman; Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs, Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated*; Anita Diamant, Good Harbor; Philip Roth, The Human Stain*; Amos Oz's memoir, A Tale of Love and Darkness*; Edward Jones, The Known World; Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog; Malika Oufkir, Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail; Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake; Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex; Julia Glass, Three Junes; Jonathan Frazen (recently on The Simpsons), The Corrections; Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner; Jhumpa Lahri, The Namesakes; Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go; Jose Saramago (Nobel laureate) Blindness; Gish Jen, Mona in the Promised Land*; Tova Reich, The Jewish War*; David McCullouch, 1776; Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife;and Rebecca Kohn, The Gilded Chamber*, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, and Richard Russo's Empire Falls. . Although we won't all recommend all of them, we've had interesting discussions about each of them. The group selects its books about two months in advance.
* Substantial exploration of Jewish themes or communities. Many others have important subplots or themes or allusions to Judaism, but this is not an explicit criteria the Club uses in selecting its books.
