The USF Book Club is looking towards 2011 with the ferocity of scholars ~ we’ve picked a nonfiction title for our first selection of the new year! We’ll read Bright-sided : how the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich, the author of Nickel and Dimed. We’ll meet on Wednesday, January … Continue reading USF Book Club: Bright-Sided
Hello book lovers and library patrons! The USF Book Club has selected its final title for 2010: The Help by Kathryn Stockett. We will meet on Wednesday, Dec 8, 2010 from 12-1 pm in the electronic classroom of Gleeson Library, which is room #139. Better pick up this book fast! It’s insanely popular right now … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Help by Stockett
Hello! The USF Book Club will read and discuss Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons for our November selection. We will meet on November 17, 2010 from 12 noon – 1 pm in the seminar room (#209) of Gleeson Library. Feel free to bring your lunch! How to get the book: since Gleeson’s copy is … Continue reading USF Book Club: Cold Comfort Farm
This past summer librarian Vicki Rosen took a research leave to discover What is Ignatian Pedagogy? She shares some insights with us below. What is Ignatian Pedagogy? by Vicki Rosen We all know that USF is a Jesuit university. Officially known as the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits are an Order of the Catholic church. … Continue reading What is Ignatian Pedagogy? by Vicki Rosen
Greetings! The USF Book Club’s next pick is The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. We picked this book to support the USF Reading Project, which is examining a mural by Diego River as the selection for this year. That’s not the only way Gleeson is supporting the USF Reading Project. Government Information Librarian Carol Spector has … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
UPDATE, 8/16/2010: It seems like the weather tomorrow may not be very pleasant, so we’ll meet indoors, not in the community garden. See you in the seminar room of Gleeson Library, #209. ———————————————————————- Hello! At Book Club we decided to expand our horizons with a poetry selection for August. I suggested a book I read … Continue reading USF Book Club: Breakfast with Thom Gunn
Hello everyone! From what I hear, Isabel Allende is an amazing writer so it’s high time Book Club read one of her books. Island Beneath the Sea is her newest and it is an historical novel that largely takes place in Haiti, so it is appropriate to the times. Opening in Saint Domingue a few … Continue reading USF Book Club: Island Beneath the Sea by Allende
I happened to catch an encore airing of Philsophy Talk’s annual Summer Reading Episode a few weeks ago which gave me some fresh recommendations, such as The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, which I am definitely planning on checking out soon. One thing one of the featured guests said was that he considers … Continue reading Summer 2010: What are you reading?
April 1 is almost here… and with it comes the start of National Poetry Month 2010! Here at Gleeson we are celebrating National Poetry Month by doing a couple things. First we’re putting up a display of cool books written by California and Bay Area poets and books of poems written about California and the … Continue reading National Poetry Month @ Gleeson
Hello everyone! The members of the book club today acknowledged our trend of picking depressing/topically traumatic books recently, so we’re going with an uplifting page turner for April. We think The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows will do the trick. We’re meeting on April 14, 2010 (Wednesday) … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society