Books we have read in review:

2008
June Book #1 Barbara Walter Memoir - Denise Liptak (home)
July Book #2 Those Who Save Us - Laurel Perry (Matoi Sushii)
August Book #3 Monster of Florence - Jennifer Malin (Queen of Sheba)
September Book #4 The Awakening by Kate Chopin - J.C. (home)
October Book #5 Are you There Vodka, It's me Chelsea - Amy Kenyon Jones (home)
November Book #6 Twilight by Meyers - Cherie Monarch (Bella’s)
December Book #7 The Stranger Beside Me – Kimbril (JC’s home)

2009
January Book #8 Three Cups of Tea – Amy Rossi Gall (Bamboo Club)
February Book# 9 God’s in Alabama – Dana McWhirter (Pattaya Thai)
March Book #10 Story of Edgar Sawtelle – Denise Liptak (CDB’s)
May Book #11 Water for Elephants – Jennifer Malin (Datz Deli)
July Book #12 Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison) – JC (home)
August Book #13 The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society – Cherie Monarch (Circles)
September Book #14 Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole) – Kathleen Hogan

September Book #14 Kathleen's book - A Confederacy of Dunces

A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide. The book was published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a revealing foreword) and Toole's mother Thelma Toole, quickly becoming a cult classic, and later a mainstream success. Toole posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. It is an important part of the 'modern canon' of Southern literature.[citation needed]

The title derives from the epigraph by Jonathan Swift: "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." (Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting)
The story is set in New Orleans in the early 1960s. The central character is Ignatius J. Reilly, an educated but slothful man still living with his mother at age 30 in the city's Uptown neighborhood, who, due to an incident early in the book, must set out to get a job. In his quest for employment he has various adventures with colorful French Quarter characters.