June 3: Mary S. hosting RSVP here 5:30 PM
No July Meeting
June Book
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Overview from Barnes&Noble Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival |
June Book
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From Publishers Weekly The sometimes crushing power of myth, story, and memory is explored in the brilliant debut of Obreht, the youngest of the New Yorker's 20-under-40. Natalia Stefanovi, a doctor living (and, in between suspensions, practicing) in an unnamed country that's a ringer for Obreht's native Croatia, crosses the border in search of answers about the death of her beloved grandfather, who raised her on tales from the village he grew up in, and where, following German bombardment in 1941, a tiger escaped from the zoo in a nearby city and befriended a mysterious deaf-mute woman. The evolving story of the tiger's wife, as the deaf-mute becomes known, forms one of three strands that sustain the novel, the other two being Natalia's efforts to care for orphans and a wayward family who, to lift a curse, are searching for the bones of a long-dead relative; and several of her grandfather's stories about Gavran Gailé, the deathless man, whose appearances coincide with catastrophe and who may hold the key to all the stories that ensnare Natalia. Obreht is an expert at depicting history through aftermath, people through the love they inspire, and place through the stories that endure; the reflected world she creates is both immediately recognizable and a legend in its own right. Obreht is talented far beyond her years, and her unsentimental faith in language, dream, and memory is a pleasure. |
| Dates | Book | Author | Chosen | Hosting | Directions |
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| Jun 3 |
Hunger Games |
Suzanne Collins | Mary M | Mary S | directions |
| Jul 8 | No meeting | ||||
| Aug 5 | The Tiger's Wife | Téa Obreht | Marge | Nancy G | directions |
| Sep 9 | Nancy G | Mary S: Wareham | directions | ||
| Oct 14 | Lynn | Marge | directions | ||
| Nov 4 | June | Joanne | directions | ||
| Dec 2 | Joanne | directions | |||
| Jan 6 | Rachel | Mary S | directions |