December meeting

We'll meet at Jo's to discuss The Glass Castle on Thursday evening, Dec. 4th at 7:00. I'm looking forward to our discussion of this alternately enraging and endearing family.

October meeting

Warm up your vocal cords! We'll be meeting this Thursday evening (Oct. 23) at Donna's to discuss Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. Mona is the discussion leader.

Books for 2008-09

We had a lively discussion of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, didn't we?! In October we'll read Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. In early December we'll discuss The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. The book for January is Last Woman Standing by Winona LaDuke, a Rochester Reads finalist. In February we'll discuss Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. In March we're planning to attend the Wendy Wasserstein play Third at the Rochester Rep Theatre. In April and May we're going to try out the library's book bag kits: in April we'll discuss The Summer of Ordinary Ways by Nicole Lea Helget and in May, Atonement by Ian McEwan. In June we'll be back at Rosemary's to choose some more great books.

June Book Selection Meeting

We will meet Thursday, June 12 at 6:30 PM at the Barlow Hy-Vee parking lot to carpool to Rosemary's for our annual book selection meeting. Bring your ideas and a dessert or appetizer to share.

Some books we're considering: Here by Douglas McGill, The Ocean in the Closet by Yuko Taniguchi, The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Lagnado, Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton, Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks, Suite Francais by Irene Nemirovsky, The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory, Atonement by Ian McEwan.

May meeting

We will meet at 7:00 PM on Thursday, May 22 at Joyce's. Donna will lead the discussion of The Bookseller of Kabul.

April Meeting

We will meet at 7:00 PM on Thursday, April 24 at Donna's to discuss The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. Elaine will lead the discussion.

RCTC Common Book for 2008/09

The RCTC common book committee has announced that it has selected The Future of Nature: Writing on a Human Ecology from Orion Magazine as the common book for the coming year. This book is a selection of essays edited by Barry Lopez and published by Milkweed Press, a Minneapolis based non-profit publishing company. Rochester Public Library owns a copy if you are interested in checking it out.

Memory Keeper's Daughter on TV

Our April book made its television debut on Lifetime Saturday night. Did anyone get a chance to watch it?

Welcome!

Welcome to our new blog! I hope this will be a fun and effective way to share news and information of interest to our group.