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
Thanks to the recommendation of one of my MFA classmates, I started reading The Archivist by Martha Cooley a few weeks ago. She was right to recommend it to me — it brings together my two worlds: poetry and libraries. Most of the novel centers around the letters between TS Eliot and his American confidante … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Archivist
Hello! The USF Book Club continues our theme of less traumatizing novels by selecting Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey for our May pick. It’s a classic… and I’m ashamed to admit that I have never finished a book by Jane Austen even though I was an English major and I have an MFA in Writing. 2010 … Continue reading USF Book Club: Northanger Abbey
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
Hello book lovers! The USF Book Club is reading Some Things That Meant the World to Me by Joshua Mohr and will meet on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 to discuss. We’ll be in the seminar room (#209) of Gleeson Library from 12-1 pm. Bring your lunch and your friends! Personally I am especially excited about … Continue reading USF Book Club: Some Things That Meant the World to Me
Hey everyone! The next book club selection is The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. We will meet on Wednesday February 10, 2010 from 12 noon – 1 pm in Gleeson Library Room 209 to discuss it. Bring your lunch and bring your friends! The book club is open to the entire USF Community. … Continue reading USF Book Club: The Year of the Flood
Greetings! The next book club selection is Love Life by Ray Kluun, translated from the Dutch by Shaun Whiteside. We will meet on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 from 12 noon – 1 pm in Kalmanovitz Hall, Room 265. Bring your lunch and tell your friends — the book club is open to the whole USF … Continue reading USF Book Club: Love Life by Ray Kluun
Greetings! The USF Book Club will discuss Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout on Tuesday November 17, 2009. We will meet in the seminar room of Gleeson Library (room 209) from 12 noon – 1 pm. Bring your lunch and tell your friends! Olive Kitteridge is a short story cycle where all the pieces are about … Continue reading USF Book Club: Olive Kitteridge
The USF Book Club will discuss The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on October 13, 2009 (Tuesday) from 12-1 pm. Continue reading USF Book Club: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo