Mark you calendars for next month :) We had a date switch.
Thursday October 20th 7pm, tentatively CDB's Westshore
The Hot Zone by Richard Preston A highly infectious, deadly virus from the central African rain forest suddenly appears in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. There is no cure. In a few days 90 percent of its victims are dead. A secret military SWAT team of soldiers and scientists is mobilized to stop the outbreak of this exotic "hot" virus. The Hot Zone tells this dramatic story, giving a hair-raising account of the appearance of rare and lethal viruses and their "crashes" into the human race. Shocking, frightening, and impossible to ignore, The Hot Zone proves that truth really is scarier than fiction.
Paula's book club December: Due to the Thanksgiving holiday we will be meeting either Thursday December 1, or Friday December 2. (we could do Saturday if you guys wanted)
At our next book club we will pick dates for the first part of 2012. If you have calendar bring it so we can get our schedules together. Thanks so much ladies! This has been an awesome year with some great reading!
Hope you are all enjoying the last little bits of summer!
Book club is this Thursday, August 25th at 7pm at Mad Dogs & Englishmen located at 4115 South MacDill Avenue, (813) 832-3037, web-site http://www.maddogs.com/
FYI - I just watched the news...this book club will be tentative due to T.S. Irene....Thanks a lot Irene!
Should it look like we need to reschedule we will do so.
You all are so sweet to give me such a WONDERFUL gift. I absolutely love the Kindle and wanted one for some time now. I greatly appreciate you thinking of me. Love you and thank you so very much!
Like cats, dogs have multiple lives. At least, Bailey, the canine narrator of this first novel, has more than one. Bailey’s first life is spent as a feral puppy who learns to trust humans after living with a loving but slightly dotty woman who owns too many dogs to suit the county. Bailey is removed by animal control, and his next life brings him to young Ethan, the human Bailey will love and search for through all his subsequent lives, first as part of K-9 Search and Rescue and then as a dumped and mistreated mutt. Through all these lives, Bailey contemplates his purpose in a voice full of curiosity and humor. He ruminates on the usefulness of cats (“none”) and the strange natures of humans (“Am I a good dog or a bad dog? They can’t decide”). This quickly paced, touching novel will charm all animal fans, especially those who loved Garth Stein’s The Art of Racing in the Rain (2009) and Vicki Myron’s Dewey (2008), the best-selling saga of a library cat. --Kaite Mediatore Stover
NOTE: September 22 Book Club - Kimbril's Pick is A Stolen Life: A Memoir by Jaycee Lee Dugard.
ALSO, Dana is being induced on August 24th so we will be celebrating the birth of her new baby at book club the next night! Can't wait to meet him!
Most of us know or think we know who Ernest Hemingway was -- a brilliant writer full of macho swagger, driven to take on huge feats of bravery and a pitcher or two of martinis -- before lunch. But beneath this man or myth, or some combination of the two, is another Hemingway, one we’ve never seen before. Hadley Richardson, Hemingway’s first wife, is the perfect person to reveal him to us -- and also to immerse us in the incredibly exciting and volatile world of Jazz-age Paris.
The idea to write in Hadley’s voice came to me as I was reading Hemingway’s memoir, A Moveable Feast, about his early years in Paris. In the final pages, he writes of Hadley, “I wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.” That line, and his portrayal of their marriage -- so tender and poignant and steeped in regret -- inspired me to search out biographies of Hadley, and then to research their brief and intense courtship and letters -- they wrote hundreds and hundreds of pages of delicious pages to another!
I couldn’t help but fall in love with Hadley, and through her eyes, with the young Ernest Hemingway. He was just twenty when they met, handsome and magnetic, passionate and sensitive and full of dreams. I was surprised at how much I liked and admired him -- and before I knew it, I was entirely swept away by their gripping love story.
I hope you will be as captivated by this remarkable couple as I am -- and by the fascinating world of Paris in the 20’s, the fast-living, ardent and tremendously driven Lost Generation.
Mark you calendars for next month :) We had a date switch.
