Howdy! The USF Book Club picked its next two selections: Friday, February 17, 2012 (12-1 pm): Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer How to get the book: Request it through Link+ (it’s in high demand right now, so you might need to get creative with how you request it — large print, … Continue reading USF Book Club: February and March Selections
Do you read? Do you like discussing what you read in a casual environment? Then come to a USF Book Club monthly meeting! The next book we will discuss is The History of Love by Nicole Krauss and we’ll meet on January 13th (Friday the 13th!) from 12 noon – 1 pm in the Seminar … Continue reading USF Book Club: The History of Love
Howdy everyone! The Book Club will read and discuss Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay for December. We will meet on December 9, 2011 in Room 139 of Gleeson Library from 12-1 pm. Gleeson has a copy of Savage Beauty that you can request, but it will probably go fast so your alternatives are requesting … Continue reading USF Book Club: Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
On exhibition in the Donohue Rare Book Room through December 16 are over eighty volumes from the Rare Book Room’s Dr. M. Wallace Freidman Collection of L. Frank Baum and Oziana. L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) wrote over thirty-eight children’s books, the most famous of which The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published in 1900 and … Continue reading Follow the Yellow Brick Road
The Gleeson Library is pleased to sponsor a faculty reading on Tuesday, November 15 when it welcomes David Vann, University of San Francisco Associate Professor in the MFA in Writing Program, who will read from his recent works Last Day on Earth: A Portrait of the NIU School Shooter (University of Georgia Press, 2011) and … Continue reading David Vann Reading
Howdy bookclubbers! Today we discussed Packing for Mars under a bright blue sky in the USF Garden and we choose our next two selections. We’ll meet in the seminar room of Gleeson Library (#209) for both of these meetings. 12-1 pm, November 11, 2011 (Friday): A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (novel) Gleeson … Continue reading USF Book Club: Nov/Dec Selections
Gleeson Library | Geschke Center is pleased to welcome two new librarians, Claire Sharifi, who is the liaison to the School of Nursing, and Amy Gilgan, who is the liaison to the School of Education. Claire and Amy both began here at Gleeson in January as temporary part time librarians. Late this past summer, the … Continue reading Welcome New Permanent Librarians
Hello bookclubbers! Media Studies Professor Vamsee Juluri is teaching a Davies Seminar this semester, which is called Making American Book Culture. He has invited Book Club to be part of the class! I agreed to read Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart and visit the class on September 22, 2011 to join in … Continue reading USF Book Club ~ Special Meeting
Howdy book lovers! The USF Book Club’s next meeting will be on Friday, October 7, 2011 from 12 noon – 1 pm in the USF Community Garden (located next to the School of Education Parking lot, entrance at Turk Blvd. and Tamalpais Terrace). We will discuss Packing for Mars by Mary Roach. Packing for Mars … Continue reading USF Book Club: Packing for Mars
Hello friends! The USF Book Club has made its selections for the next two months: September: Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit — 12 noon, Friday September 9, 2011, in the community garden. Infinite City is the 2011 USF Reading Project selection, so we are reading this beautiful, full color, large-format book … Continue reading USF Book Club: Infinite City and Packing for Mars