EVENING BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP 

The evening book discussion meets the third Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at members' homes. Contact chair Pat Chaloupek, pchal@zoominternet.net for information. 

SELECTIONS FOR 2008 -- 2009:  To be determined at the Sept. 16th meeting, 6:30 p.m. at the home of Pat Chaloupek. We will discuss books read over the summer and make selections for the upcoming year.

FROM THE YEAR 2007-2008:

SEPTEMBER: MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS: THE QUEST OF DR. PAUL FARMER, A MAN WHO WOULD CURE THE WORLD, by Tracy Kidder

OCTOBER: MARCH, by Geraldine Brooks

NOVEMBER: WATER FOR ELEPHANTS: A NOVEL, by Sara Gruen

JANUARY: A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS, by Khaled Hosseini

MARCH: RULES, by Cynthia Lord

FROM THE YEAR 2006 -- 2007:

JULY   -- DREAMS FROM MY FATHER, by Barack Obama. 

AUGUST  -- MISTRESS OF THE ELGIN MARBLES: A BIOGRAPHY OF MARY NISBET, COUNTESS OF ELGIN, by Susan Nagel

SEPTEMBER  -- PRODIGAL SUMMER, by Barbara Kingsolver

OCTOBER 17 -- A SUDDEN COUNTRY, by Karen Fisher

NOVEMBER -- NO MEETING

DECEMBER 19 -- TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE, by Alexander McCall Smith

JANUARY --  NO MEETING

FEBRUARY  -- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER, by Jamaica Kincaid.

MARCH  --  THE MEMORY KEEPERS DAUGHTER, by Kim Edwards

APRIL  -- THE HUMMINGBIRD'S DAUGHTER, by Luis Alberto Urrea

MAY -- NO MEETING

JUNE -- MY SISTER'S KEEPER, BY Jodi Picoult

The first meeting of this group was held April 18, 2006. 

    Book discussed: Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W. Loewen. An AAUW/ Ohio "state read" selection.

June:  Book discussed: The Long Goodbye, by Raymond Chandler. The archetypical detective story.