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November 1, 2013, 7 pm Salvage The Bones – Jesamyn Ward Winner of the 2011 National Book Award A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn’t show concern for much else. Esch and […]

2103 Salvage the Bones: Colum McAnn (11/13) – Current Read Garden of Evening Mists – Tan Twan Eng (9/13) Rules of Civility: Amor Towles (8/13) Gold Boy, Emerald Girl (7/13) Sense of An Ending: Julian Barnes (5/13) In The Garden of Beasts: Erik Larson (3/13)   2012  The Tiger’s Wife: Tea Obreht (11/12) Dubliners:James Joyce […]

Dew Breaker: Edwidge Dandicat (11/06) The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: Anne Fadiman (10/06) In Cold Blood: Truman Capote (08/06) The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings: Amy Tan (07/06) Hidden Camera: Zoran Zivkovik (06/06) The Constant Gardener : John le Carre (05/06) Autobiography of a Face: Lucy Grealy (04/06) Truth & […]

To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee (12/00) The End of the Affair: Graham Greene (10/00) The Shawl: Cynthia Ozeck (9/00) Midwives: Chris Bohjalian (8/00) Corelli’s Mandolin: Louis De Bernieres(7/00) Elegy for Iris: John Bayley(6/00) The Hours: Michael Cunningham (5/00) Birds in America: Lorrie Moore (4/00) The Collector: John Fowles (3/00) Last Train to Memphis: Peter […]

1995 – 1999 The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne (11/95)The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje (10/95)Red Azalea – Anchee Min (9/95)On the Road – Jack Kerouac (8/95)Pluto Animal Lover – Laren Stover (6/95)The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros (5/95)A Civil Action: Jonathan Harr (11/96)Stilllife With Woodpecker – Tom Robbins (10/96)Striptease – Carl Hiaasen […]

We began in late 1993, but didn’t start keeping a date based log until 1995. These are what we read the first year+….   Animal Dreams – Barbara Kingsolver (9/93) My Dinner With Andre – Wallace Shawn All the Pretty Horses – Cormack McCarthy Thousand Acres – jane Smiley Palace Walk – Naquib Mafouz 100 […]