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The Third Thursday Group, with Lisa as facilitator, meets at 7:00 p.m. the third Thursday of each month.
3rd THURSDAY
BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
7:00 P.M.
April 15, 2010
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
In Conroy's first novel in 14 years, Charleston, SC gossip columnist Leopold Bloom King tells stories that alternate between 1969 and 1989. The characters we meet hail from varied socio-economic classes. They interact to love and protect each other, and carried along by Conroy's prose, we are swept up in their lives.
March 18, 2010
206 Bones by Kathy Reichs
Temperance Brennan, a forensic anthropologist who splits her time between Charlotte, NC and Quebec, tries to uncover the identity of the person accusing her of mishandling the autopsy of a Canadian heiress. This is the 12th book with Temperance as the main character, and Reichs once again reels us in with a combination of cool forensic science and burning terror.
Mudbound by Hillary Jordan
When Henry McAllan moves his city-bred wife, Laura, to a cotton farm in
the Mississippi Delta in 1946, she finds herself in a place both
foreign and frightening. Laura does not share Henry's love of rural
life, and she struggles to raise their two young children in an
isolated shotgun shack with no indoor plumbing or electricity, all the
while under the eye of her hateful, racist father-in-law.
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
August 1974 -- In New York, crowds are stunned to watch Philippe Petit walking on a wire stretched between the World Trade Center Twin Towers. McCann tells the stories of ten varied New Yorkers--stories that overlap and sometimes converge. He weaves them into an amazing tapestry of one point in time in the city.
NO MEETING IN DECEMBER
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
A 14-year-old Spokane Indian boy transfers from the reservation school to the rich white school in town. When Junior encounters his old classmates on the basketball court, he "grapples with questions about what constitutes one's community, identity, and tribe."
OCTOBER 15, 2009
Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King
King's first story collection in six years gathers a remarkable array of material originally published in magazines such as The New Yorker, Playboy, and Esquire. From the book flap--"Just After Sunset-call it dusk, call it twilight, it's a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when nothing is quite as it appears, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It's the perfect time for Stephen King."
SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
Mister Pip by LLoyd Jones
A coming-of-age tale with a war as a backdrop, set on an unnamed tropical island in the 1990's. Amid the chaos, Mr. Watts, the only white local, fills in as schoolteacher, teaching from Dickens's Great Expectations.
AUGUST 20, 2009
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
from Booklist: The premise [of this story] draws on an obscure historical fact: FDR once proposed that Alaska, not Israel, become the homeland for Jews after the war. In Chabon's telling, that's exactly what happened, except, inevitably, it hasn't gone as planned. [Readers will experience this] alternate universe of Chabon's Sitka, where black humor is a kind of antifreeze necessary to support life.
JULY 16, 2009
America, America by Ethan Canin
A young man from a working-class family becomes involved on several levels with the world of power politicians. Canin's novel is an "exploration of how vanity, greatness, and tragedy combine to change history and fate."
NO MEETING IN JUNE
MAY 21, 2009
The Turnaround by George Pelecanos
from Publishers Weekly: In yet another gem of urban noir, bestseller Pelecanos (The Night Gardener) explores the possibility of making the turnaround, of starting over and building a new life, regardless of the past.
APRIL 16, 2009
In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to cross the ocean. He's embarking on the most painful yet important journey of his life - he's leaving home to build a better future for his family...Because the main character can't communicate in words, the book forgoes them too.
MARCH 19, 2009
Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
The Pulitzer Prize–winning historian focuses on three accomplished women who behaved badly according to the standards of their times: Christine de Pizan, Virginia Woolf, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
