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Thursday Oct 16 Links of Interest
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In 1991, several members of the Middletown, Ohio, branch of the
American Association of University Women began reading books together and meeting once a month to discuss them.![]() Why do we call our group Joy Luck Club? The first book we read together was Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. We've also read and discussed her books The Kitchen God's Wife and The Bonesetter's Daughter. Click on the links at left to see the lists of fiction and non-fiction that we've read over the years. For the titles followed by MOVIE, our discussion of that book included watching the movie together. Current Book September 18, 2008, 7pm, at Pam's: The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, by Katherine Anne Porter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Upcoming Books October 16, 2008, 7pm, at ???: Book TBA November 20, 2008, 7pm, at ???: Book TBA |
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Marie Winn, author of Red Tails in Love, released her newest book, Central Park in the Dark: More Mysteries of Urban Wildlife in June, 2008.
Lifetime TV's all-star film version of Kim Edwards' The Memory Keeper's Daughter, premiers Saturday, April 12, 2008, at 9pm EDT.
Susan Vreeland will be in southwest Ohio in early March promoting the paperback release of The Luncheon of the Boating Party:
The Joy Luck Club, a stage adaptation of the Amy Tan novel that was our first book back in 1992, will play New York's Julia Miles Theatre, October 28-November 25, 2007. Read More.
According to the London Telegraph, Jane Austen is about to become a teen sensation.
Galileo's Daughter, by Dava Sobel, inspired a new oratorio which premiered May 20, 2006, in Rochester, NY. Read about Glenn McClure's The Starry Messenger.
Mary Catherine Bateson, one of our favorite nonfiction authors, is a Blogger.
Susan Sontag, author of In America, died Monday, December 27, 2004, in New York City at the age of 71.
NPR's Morning Edition reported November 9, 2004, on the death of Charles Kennedy, who figured prominently in Red Tails in Love: A Wildlife Drama in Central Park. Read More | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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