Next Mtg JAN 13 - book & film

Our next meeting will be January 13th, and we'll be reading The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (pub. 2002, from $4 used on amazon).

We'll be trying something new and watching the film version of the book (in Arabic so bring your glasses for reading the subtitles!) on the same night as our discussion. The film is long, 165 minutes, so maybe we should think about meeting earlier than our ususal 7 pm?...

I'll post an update once we decide on the start time.

Hope to see you there-

Friday 9 December at 7pm we'll meet in the Round Valley Public Library to discuss The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls.

The next meeting will be Friday 21 October when we'll be talking about Uwen Akpan's book Say You're One of Them

Our next book meeting will be Friday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m. We'll be discussing Japanese author Keigo Higashino's book The Devotion of Suspect X (2011). 

For Oct/early Nov we'll be reading Uwen Akpan's book Say You're One of Them

Next Meeting - Aug 19

Well, the Wallow Fire interrupted our meeting schedule a bit. Between the evacuation and the library's conference rooms being occupied, it's been some time since we met.

We're back in gear now, though, and will meet next on Friday, Aug 19, at 7. Our book is (still) Llosa's Death in the Andes and we're also looking for our next selection or two. Here are a couple of suggestions that Beth mentioned:

Dinaw Mengitsu's (US/Ethiopia) How to Read the Air and Keigo Higashino's (Japan) The Devotion of Suspect X. Sounds like the library has both of these.

Meeting June 17

Our next meeting is scheduled for Friday, June 17, 7 p.m. at the RVPL.

We'll be discussing Mario Vargas Llosa's Death in the Andes.

Hope to see you there ~

May 6 - Next Meeting

Our selection for May is Skippy Dies by Paul Murray, 661 pp. This meeting is scheduled for Friday, May 6 at 7 p.m. (@RVPL). The library does have one copy, although I think most of us have ordered one since it seems to be checked out. The book for June will be Death in the Andes by Nobel Lit Prize winner (know how you love those winners, Alan!) by Mario Vargas Llosa, 276 pp. Used hardcover copies available on amazon starting around a whopping $0.30. Send recommendations for a third (July) selection. I think the title of the one that Carol and I were trying to remember at our last meeting was Cry of the Peacock by Gina B. Nahai - maybe we can add this to our list of possibilities. Everyone welcome, whether you've read the book or not; hope to see you at the meeting.