Book Group

2011-2012 Meeting Schedule and Reading List

 

Book Group normally meets on the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. It is open to all Greater Richmond AAUW members and their guests. Our name Bon Air Bookies honors the group’s history as a popular facet of the former Bon Air Branch AAUW, one of two branches in the Richmond area now combined as Greater Richmond AAUW.

 

 

September 15, 2011

The Help , by Katherine Sockett (2009; 522 pages)

         Hostess & Discussion leader: Catherine Luckey

 

October 20, 2011

The Eustace Diamonds , by Anthony Trollope (1873; 688 pages)

Hostess:  Gay Olsen

Discussion leader: Cheryl Kapec

 

November 17, 2011 — Branch International Month, emphasis on Israel

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East , by Sandy Tolan (2006, 304 pp)

Hostess:  Cheryl Kapec

Discussion leader: Carol Stephens

 

December 15, 2011

Dreamers of the Day , by Mary Doria Russell (March 2008, 270 pages)

Hostess:  Carol Mazur

Discussion leader: TBD

 


January 19, 2012

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph Triumph, by T.E. Lawrence, 1922. (1991 Anchor Paperback,; 660 pages).

OR Revolt in the Desert Desert (Lawrence’s own 1927 abridged version of Seven Pillars, 358 pages).

Hostess:  DeAnn Lineberry  

Discussion leader: TBD

 

February 16, 2012 – Black History Month

Song of Solomon , , by Toni Morrison (1977, 352 Pages)

Hostess:  Kathy Kelley  

Discussion leader: Gay Olsen

 

March, 2012 – Women’s History Month

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to Present , by Gail Collins (2009, 480 pages)

Hostess: : Pat Mallahan

Discussion leader: Kathy Kelley

 

April 19, 2012

Quinn’s Book, by William Kennedy

Hostess: TBD

Discussion Leader: Pat Mallahan

 

May 17, 2011

The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors: A Novel , by Michele Young-Stone (2010, 384 pages)

Hostess & Discussion leader: Marcia Phillips

Special guest: The author!! Michele Young Stone will be coming to our meeting!

 

June 18, 2012

An Imperfect Lens, by Anne Roiphe (2006, 304 pages)

Hostess: Carol Stephens

Discussion Leader: TBD

 

July 19, 2012

The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski (1988)
Klara Glowczewska, Translator

Hostess: Gina Turner

Discussion Leader: DeAnn Lineberry

 

August 16, 2011

Party Time!!  Annual summer social