Hometown
Gourmet
This
group is made up of members and non-members who choose to dine at local restaurants
or one that is in a town near Bloomington-Normal. They
try to pick restaurants that are not chain restaurants.
AAUW-BN
Book Club
The
AAUW BN Book Club is an informal gathering that takes place each month on the
fourth Tuesday at 7:30pm. Several
of us take turns having the meeting at our homes and providing a bit of refreshment. Each summer we have a planning meeting
to decide which books to read over the coming year. Everyone is welcome to suggest titles—both fiction and
non-fiction. Almost all of the
books we select are available in paperback and/or at the local libraries. No expenditure is necessary to take part
in our discussions. We welcome
anyone who is interested, whether or not they have read that monthıs book.
If
you would like to know what we are reading next for the Fall 2008 and
Spring 2009 Schedule--click
here for a listing of the Book Group Schedule as a pdf file. The schedule
also appears below. And,
if you might be interested in coming to a future meeting, please contact Judith
Hansen via email at judithfhansen@gmail.com or
call her at (309) 862-1699. We
would welcome seeing some new faces and hearing some new points of view!
AAUW BOOK GROUP - Reading List for 2008-9
Meetings are the 4th Tuesday of the month (3rd in Dec.) at 7:00 p.m. All titles will be available in paperback, except About Alice. At least 2 copies of each are available in local libraries - NPL, BPL, Milner -- except Stumbling on Happiness, of which only the NPL has a copy.
To find out each month's location, email judithfhansen@gmail.com or call her at 310-6926
Aug. 26 - Made to Stick - Chip Heath & Dan Heath - 304pp - non-fiction
Sep. 23 - I Feel Bad About My Neck - Nora Ephron - 137pp - humor
Oct. 28 - A Thread of Grace - Mary Doria Russell - 464pp - novel
Nov. 25 - Fieldwork - Mischa Berlinski - 268pp - Thai whodunit
Dec. 16 - About Alice - Calvin Trillin - 96pp - memoir
Jan. 27 - Ship Fever - Andrea Barrett - 254pp - stories
Feb. 24 - The Echo Maker - Richard Powers - 451pp - novel
Mar. 24 - Stumbling on Happiness - Daniel Gilbert - 257pp - non-fiction
Apr. 28 - Then We Came to the End - Joshua Ferris - 416pp - satiric novel
May 26 - The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls - 288pp - memoir
Jun 23 - Ghostwalk - Rebecca Stott - 368pp - historical whodunit
NOTE: June will be when we choose next season's books.
Have fun reading!
Judith (7/30/08)
page last updated 7/31/08gfj
If
you would like to know what we are reading next for the Fall 2007 and
Spring 2008 Schedule--click here (for
a listing in MSWord) (for
a listing in PDF). It also appears below. And, if you might
be interested in coming to a future meeting, please contact Judith Hansen via
email at judithfhansen@gmail.com or
call her at (309) 862-1699. We
would welcome seeing some new faces and hearing some new points of view!
AAUW BOOK GROUP - Reading List for 2007-8
Meetings are the 4th Tuesday of the month (3rd in Dec.) at 7:00 p.m.
All titles will be available in paperback. At least one copy of each is available in both the Normal & Bloomington public libraries, except The Caliph’s House, of which only one copy is available, in the BPL.
New members are always welcome! Just come to any meeting.
For information about the location of that month’s meeting, please contact Judith Hansen judithfhansen@gmail.com
These are the books for the upcoming season (updated):
Aug. 28, 2007 (date cancelled; the reading is to be rescheduled) – The Lady & the Panda - Vicki C. Croke - 400pp - non-fiction
Sep. 25 , 2007 - Lady & the Panda - Vicki C. Corke - 400pp - non-fiction
Oct. 23, 2007 - The Stolen Child - Keith Donohue - 336pp - novel
Nov. 27, 2007 - Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen - 350pp - novel
Dec. 18, 2007 – White Ghost Girls - Alice Greenway - 168pp - novel
Jan. 22, 2008– The Caliph’s House - Tahir Shah - 368pp - non-fiction
Feb. 22, 2008 – A Woman of Independent Means - Elizabeth F. Hailey – 285pp - novel
Mar. 25, 2008 – American Islam – Paul Barrett - 352pp - non-fiction
Apr. 22, 2008 – Intuition – Allegra Goodwin - 400pp - novel
May 27, 2008 – Reading Like a Writer - Francine Prose - 320pp - non-fiction
June 24, 2008 – Moral Disorder - Margaret Atwood - 272pp - short stories
July 22, 2008 – Black Swan Green - David Mitchell - 384pp - novel
Have fun reading!
Of special note for the Fall 2006 and Spring 2007
schedule was the AAUW BN Book Club "All
Branch Read-Out Project" in addition to ourregular Book Club schedule.
Judith Hansen and Book Club members selected three books for Branch Members
to choose from to read for the January 15, 2007 meeting where these books
will be discussed. We either bought or borrowed one of the books from one
of the local libraries to read it and then shared our thoughts about it over
dessert at Barnes & Nobles' Booksellers in Bloomington.