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Upcoming Book Club Meeting Details

Monday, March 28, 2011 at 7:30pm
discussing Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Location: Temple Beth Am

Monday, April 25, 2011 at 7:30pm
discussing The Reliable Wife  by Robert Goolrick
Location: Margolin home

Monday, May 23, 2011 at 7:30pm
discussing The Book of Names by Karen Tintori
Location: Landzberg home

Monday, June 20, 2011 at 7:30pm
discussing Little Bee by Chris Cleave
Location: to be announced

Monday, July 18, 2011 at 7:30pm
discussing The Covenant by Naomi Ragen
Location: to be announced




Special Report on the 4 1/2 Year Anniversary Dinner
at the The Heights Restaurant, August 18, 2009


Book Club Dinner at Heights Restaurant - August 19, 2008 Bookclub Dinner 2009
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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