Our Anniversary Dinner
12/28/2012 09:53:23 AM
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Special Report on the 4 1/2 Year Anniversary Dinner
at the The Heights Restaurant, August 18, 2009
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| Bookclub Dinner, August 19, 2008 | Bookclub Dinner, August 18, 2009 |
Established in January, 2005, the Temple Beth Am Book Club celebrated its 4½ year “anniversary” with a dinner at The Heights restaurant, on Tuesday, August 18th. Our members shared an evening of great company, excellent food, laughter, silly songs, stories, and jokes, and a sense of camaraderie.
In the 4½ years, the Book Club has read (and discussed) 45 books! These books are as follows (in no particular order):
| The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger |
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostrova |
| The Haj by Leon Uris |
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy |
| Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs |
Haven by Ruth Gruber |
| The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini |
Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky |
| 1000 Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini |
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth |
| Sea Biscuit by Laura Hillenbrand |
Mohawk by Richard Russo |
| Straight Into Darkness by Faye Kellerman |
Empire Falls by Richard Russo |
| Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold |
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult |
| Exile by Richard North Patterson |
Daddy by Loop Durand |
| Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides |
The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho |
| Zorro by Isabel Allende |
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross |
| History of Love by Nicole Krauss |
The Coffee Traders by David Liss |
| Confederacy of Dunces by J.K. Toole |
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud |
| The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls |
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Foer |
| Catch 22 by Joseph Heller |
Just Revenge by Alan Dershowitz |
| Decider by Dick Francis |
The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien |
| The Life of Pi by Yann Martel |
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen |
| The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards |
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks |
| The Sacrifice of Tamar by Naomi Ragen |
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin |
| Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett |
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum |
| March by Geraldine Brooks |
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Maryann Schaffer and Annie Barrows |
| John Adams by David McCullough |
The Story of Edgar Sawtell by David Wroblewski |
| The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie |
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