Friday Morning Book Group  

 If you would like to expand your reading choices and discuss them with witty, intelligent people, this book group is for you.  It meets monthly on the third Friday at 10:30 a.m.(except during July and August) in members' homes. Bring a sandwich for lunch and fellowship following the discussion; the hostess  provides dessert and beverages.       

Below is the book group's list of meeting dates and books for the remainder of 2008-09; you may be interesting in reading some of them even if you can't join the group.

• Dec 19, Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas
• Jan 16, Water for Elephants,  Sara Gruen
• Feb 20, Mao’s Last Dancer,  Li Cunxin
• Mar 20, The Gift of RainTan,  Twan Eng 
• Apr 17, The Bone Garden,  Tess Gerritsen
• May 15, Suite  Francaise,  Irene Nemirovsky
• Jun 19, The Faith Club,  Ranya Idliby
• Sept 18, Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, From White House Princess to Washington Power Broker, Stacy A. Cordery    

Suggested books which didn’t make the cut, but you may wanto to read:

• Uncle Tungsten:  Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Oliver Sacks;
• Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama;
• No God But God, Reza Aslan;
• The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama;
• Plainsong, Kent Haruf;
• The Peabody Sisters, Megan Marshall;
• Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts;
• Pearl, Mary Gordon;
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Ann Fadiman;
• The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls;
• Quid Pro Quo, Vicki Grant.