Happy New Year! The USF Book Club has selected its next book. We are reading Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese and will meet on Thursday, March 3, 2011 to discuss it. We’ll be in the seminar room (#209) of Gleeson Library from 12 noon – 1 pm. This book is somewhat longer than our … Continue reading USF Book Club: Cutting for Stone
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
Hello! The USF Book Club is joining the city of San Francisco in the One City | One Book program by reading ZEITOUN by Dave Eggers. We will meet to discuss the book on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 from 12-1 pm in the seminar room of Gleeson Library (#209) New Location USF Community Garden, just … Continue reading USF Book Club: Zeitoun
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
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