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The Fellowship Book Club meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm in the Fellowship Library, and is open to all book lovers.
"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."
~ Henry Ward Beecher ~
Here are the upcoming books to be discussed:
| August 3, 2010 A Reliable Wife Robert Goolrick He placed a notice in a
Chicago paper, an advertisement for "a reliable wife." She responded,
saying that she was "a simple, honest woman." She was, of course,
anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was her single-minded
determination to marry this man and then kill him, slowly and carefully,
leaving her a wealthy widow, able to take care of the one she truly
loved. What Catherine Land did not realize was that the enigmatic and
lonely Ralph Truitt had a plan of his own. And what neither anticipated was
that they would fall so completely in love. |  |
 | September 7, 2010 Reading the OED Ammon Shea Shea’s engougement (“irrational fondness”) for dictionaries led him to spend a year reading through all 20 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary, and he describes this account as “the thinking man’s Cliff Notes to the greatest dictionary in the world.” For each letter of the alphabet he provides a handful of his favorite words and his own humorous glosses, along with musings on the history of the OED, dictionaries in general, and his reading life. (He does most of his OED reading at the Hunter College Library and finds himself turning into one of those “Library People” as the year goes by.) He shares a number of words that, though they have fallen out of the common vocabulary, could be put to excellent use today: empleomania: “a manic compulsion to hold public office”; zabernism: “a misuse of military authority.” The book will happify (“make happy”) word and dictionary lovers, who will be able to read it in an hour or two, much less time than it takes to read the OED. --Mary Ellen Quinn |
October 5, 2010
The House at Riverton
Kate Morton
In the
summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a
young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline
and only they-and Grace-know the truth. In 1999, when Grace is
ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home,
she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the
events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and
reawakens her memories. Told in flashback, this is the story of Grace's
youth during the last days of Edwardian aristocratic privilege
shattered by war, of the vibrant twenties, and the changes she
witnessed as an entire way of life vanished forever.
These books should all be available from the library and in paperback from your favorite bookstore. If you have a book to suggest, please let me know and we'll bring it up for a vote at our next meeting. You can reach me at ufhlibrary@comcast.net.