Sunday, March 28, 2010

Spring 2010

We still have two books in our Across the Pond series.....

The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood by Helene Cooper
and
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortensen

I am checking into the availablity of copies for either of these titles for our next gathering.
Save the date
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 during
National Library Week April 11-17.


Stay tuned ... and leave your thoughts, comments about the books and this program.
I would love to hear from you.

Pushing Spring...

Lunch and Literature is still going strong. The theme this year was Across the Pond. Our readings take us to far off lands and meet multifaceted characters. To start our journey we tackle our Texting in Community- Dream From My Father: a Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama. President Obama takes us through his childhood in Hawaii, to his schooling in Jakarta Indonesia to his heritage in Kenya. Three students attended at the urging of their faculty. And a big thank you goes out to Gloria Pitts for leading that discussion.


In January we travel through Spain to the Pyramids of Egypt with Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist. We have just finished A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. A tale of two women in rĂ©gime torn Afghanistan over 25 years. It is evenly skewed with despair and grave hope. You may recognize Hosseini name, he is also the author of the national bestseller The Kite Runner which was originally on our list for this year's theme however, I thought you would enjoy A Thousand Splendid Suns more.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

A Cold Winter

Who ordered all that snow?

Now that we are thawing out and it looks like spring might be around the corner....
Let's get together to discuss our  next title.
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini .

Thursday, March 4 ---parts 1 & 2
Thursday, March 25, 2010-----parts 3 &4  
F.D. Bluford Library Seminar room 256-258 
Time:  12:30pm-1:30pm


This title is available at Bluford Library, A&T Stack PS3608.O832 K58 2007