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Book Club 2008.
We meet in the store the first Thursday of each month at 7pm and the third Wednesday of each month at 9am. We usually average 5 - 10 participants, no fee, no reservations required. All are welcome. Call us for any other information you need: 425-775-2789.See just below for the current book club choices; see the bottom of the page for books from 2008 and 2009; and see here for a partial list of books we have chosen in earlier years.
2010 Book Club Books.
March 4 & 17, 2010: Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal by Ben MacIntyre.
Eddie Chapman was a charming criminal, a con man, and a philanderer. He was also one of the most remarkable double agents Britain has ever produced. Inside the traitor was a man of loyalty; inside the villain was a hero. The problem for Chapman, his spymasters, and his lovers was to know where one persona ended and the other began. Based on recently declassified files, Agent Zigzag tells Chapman’s full story for the first time. It’s a gripping tale of loyalty, love, treachery, espionage, and the thin and shifting line between fidelity and betrayal.
April 1 & 21, 2010: Guernica by Dave Boling.
An extraordinary, sweeping epic of love, family and war set in the Basque town of Guernica before, during, and after its destruction by the German Luftwaffe on the eve of World War II.
In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself on the wrong side of the Spanish Nationalists, so he makes his way to Guernica, the most ancient town of the Basque region. In the midst of this idyllic, isolated bastion of democratic values, Miguel finds more than a new life - he finds a love that not even war, tragedy or death can destroy.
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award Winner.
May 6 & 19, 2010: Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell.
With prose as graceful and effortless as a seductive float down the Nile, Mary Doria Russell illuminates the long, rich history of the Middle East with a story that brilliantly elucidates today’s headlines.
Agnes Shanklin, a forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio, has come into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel just as the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference convenes, she is freed for the first time from her mother’s withering influence and finds herself being wooed by a handsome, mysterious German. At the same time, Agnes–with her plainspoken American opinions–is drawn into the company of Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell, who will, in the space of a few days, redraw the world map to create the modern Middle East. As they change history, Agnes too will find her own life transformed forever.
June 3 & 16, 2010: The English Major by Jim Harrison.
The English Major is a wryly funny novel that sparkles with the generous humanity of his vision.
“It used to be Cliff and Vivian and now it isn’t.” With these words, Jim Harrison begins a riotous, moving novel that sends a sixty-something man, divorced and robbed of his farm by a late-blooming real estate shark of an ex-wife, on a road trip across America, armed with a childhood puzzle of the United States and a mission to rename all the states and state birds to overcome the banal names men have given them. Cliff ’s adventures take him through a whirlwind affair with a former student from his high school–teacher days twenty-some years before, to a “snake farm” in Arizona owned by an old classmate; and to the high octane existence of his son, a big-time movie producer who has just bought an apartment over the Presidio in San Francisco.
The English Major is the map of a man’s journey into—and out of—himself, and it is vintage Harrison—reflective, big-picture American, and replete with wicked wit.
Books we have discussed so far in 2010:
February 2010: Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.
January 2010: A Fine Balance by Robinton Mistry.
Books we discussed in 2009:
November 2009: Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor.
October 2009: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout.
September 2009: Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire by William Rosen.
August 2009: People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks.
July 2009: Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
June 2009: Run: A Novel by Ann Patchett.
May 2009: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama.
April 2009: The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche by Gary Krist.
March 2009: Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin.
February 2009: The Last Chinese Chef: A Novel by Nicole Mones.
January 2009: The Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo.
Books we discussed in 2008:
November 2008: Loving Frank: A Novel by Nancy Horan.
October 2008: Returning to Earth: A Novel by Jim Harrsison.
September 2008: Truck: A Love Story by Michael Perry.
August 2008: The Summer Book by Tove Jansson,
July 2008: Out Stealing Horses: A Novel by Per Petterson, translated by Anne Born.
June 2008: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: A Novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.
May 2008: Water for Elephants: A Novel by Sara Gruen.
April 2008: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
March 2008: Restless: A Novel by William Boyd.
February 2008: The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss.
January 2008: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
See here for a list of even more books our book club has chosen to discuss over the past several years.
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