November 30th - Highest Duty

Join us on November 30th to discuss “Highest duty : my search for what really matters” by Chelsey Sullenberger, the airline pilot who crash-landed flight 1549 on the Hudson river in 2009.
Also at the November meeting we will select our non-fiction titles for the next year, send any nominations to Matthew mbachtol@cwmars.org before November 19th
Meeting: Nov 30th, 8pm, Memorial Elementary School

October 26th - The Housekeeper and the Professor

Join us on October 26th to discuss “The Housekeeper and the Professor” by Yoko Ogama, a novel about a brilliant math professor suffering from short-term memory problems following a traumatic head injury and the young housekeeper, the mother of a ten-year-old son, hired to care for him.
October 26th, 8pm-9pm, Memorial Elementary School

September 28th - State of Jones

Join us on September 28th to discuss “The State of Jones” by Sally Jenkins, a fascinating bit of Civil War history that examines anti-slavery white southerners in Mississippi who rebelled against the Confederacy and declared Jones county pro-union territory.
September 28th, 8pm-9pm, Memorial Elementary School room 117

August 31st - Let the Great World Spin

Join us on August 31st 8pm-9pm to discuss “Let the Great World Spin” by Colum McCann, historical fiction about life in New York City in the 1970s.

June 29th - Room

Our next meeting is June 29th 8pm at Memorial Elementary School to discuss “Room” by Emma Donoghue, a controversial novel told in the voice of a five year old boy who has been held captive in a single room for his entire life.

Book for Next Year

Our discussion of Franz Wisner's "Honeymoon with My Brother" was lively and well attended.

Franz has a second book that has been nominated for our selections next year:
How the world makes love : and what it world taught a jilted groom / Franz Wisner.

Meeting April 27, 7pm

Our next meeting is April 27th, to discuss "Oryx and Crake" by Margaret Atwood. "Oryx and Crake" is a novel of the future explores a world that has been devastated by ecological and scientific disasters. Its narrator, who calls himself "Snowman", believes himself to be the sole surviving member of the human race.

This meeting will be our last one at 7pm before we switch to our later time of 8pm-9pm.

Also, this meeting will be held in room 114 instead of 117.

Upcoming Bookgroup Selections

January 26th, 2011 - Beautiful Boy by David Sheff NF
February 23rd, 2011 - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer F
March 30th, 2011 - Mennonite in a Little Black Dress by Rhoda Janzen NF Memoir
April 27th, 2011 - Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood F - Sci Fi
May 25th, 2011 - Honeymoon with my Brother by Franz Wisner NF
June 29th, 2011 - Room by Emma Donoghue F
July 27th, 2011 - Bright-sided by Barbara Ehrenrich NF
August 31st, 2011 - Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann F
September 28th, 2011 - The State of Jones by Sally Jenkins NF
October 26th, 2011 - The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa F
November 30th, 2011 - Highest Duty by Chelsey Sullenberger NF
January 25th, 2012 - The Help by Kathryn Stockett F

Previous Bookgroup Selections