Meeting Date | Host | Selection | Notes |
Thursday
31 January 2002 |
Gary Ganong (298-4731)
801 Rio Arriba SE |
Kim
by Rudyard Kipling |
Many copies available in the Rio Grande Library System. Kim is found in the Children's Section, but is not a child's book. |
Thursday
28 February 2002 |
John Taylor (298-0849) 12704 Hugh Graham Road NE N: Tramway
[3 rights] |
Bend Sinister
A very good Nabakov Web site is given here.
Tom noted the "Zembla" site. They must be the same.
|
Alert! There are only two (2) copies of Bend Sinister in
the Albuquerque Library System.
Members will [gasp!] have to purchase new copies, e.g., at Barnes and Noble,
or BN.com - Keith and Tom each own personal copies.
Amazon.com has ~ a dozen used copies from $0.90 to $7.50 in price, plus $3.49 shipping & handling. |
Tuesday
2 April 2002 |
Don Benoist (296-2533)
7709 Harwood Ave NE West of Wyoming, between Comanche and Mont- gomery; one block N of Comanche; turn west onto Harwood, two long blocks down on right. |
Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw. |
Of course this is actually a play, but I think it will be fun to read. Please Note! The last Thursday in March is actually the first Tuesday in April! [apparently a residual from Y2K]. |
Thursday
25 April 2002 |
Earl L. Kinsley (299-2334)
1000 Stagecoach SE Into 4-Hills, when you come to the fork - don't take it! 7th House on left. |
Longitude
by Dava Sobel. Interview with Dava Sobel |
There are six copies of Longitude in the Albuquerque Public Library. |
Thursday
30 May 2002 |
Mike Blackledge (294-6030)
14321 Stalgren Ct. NE (aerial
photo)
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My Antonia by Willa Cather
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Thursday
27 June 2002 |
Rob Easterling (298-7083)
7800 Northridge NE North of Montgomery; between Wyo & Penn.
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A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul |
Naipaul was 2001's Nobel winner in literature. |
Thursday,
18 July 2002 |
Keith Gilbert (265-8122)
913 Parkland Circle NE Go East on Zuni to Carlisle;
|
Swift
as Desire
by Laura Esquivel
- About the book - |
LAURA ESQUIVEL is the award-winning and bestselling author of Like Water for Chocolate, which has sold over four and a half million copies around the world in 35 languages; The Law of Love; and, most recently, Between Two Fires. She lives in Mexico City. |
Thursday,
29 August 2002 |
Vern Gibbs (281-3639)
Sandia Park Head toward the Ski Area; take the first right onto Old Crest - good luck!
|
The Chosen
by Chaim Potok |
If you become interested in
the history of the Irgun, Etzel and Lehi "fighters" in Palestine while
reading the "Chosen", there are many web sites, such as:
Lehi
Fighters http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/lehi.html
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Thursday
26 September 2002
|
Ben Smith
3918 Solano Pl, NE 87110 268-8801 From Constitution and Carlisle, go EAST one long block to Morningside. Turn left and go one block north and turn left on Solano Place. |
Julian
by
Gore
Vidal
Bio on Gore Vidal Roman Army Talk on Julian |
For Sept 2002, Ben will host Gore Vidal. Ben will make the books
available to club members at a reasonable price at the August 2002 meeting.
[$3 for paperback, $6 for hardcopy.]
Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader. |
Thursday
|
Ron B.
.. Loma Linda SE Lead/Coal; between Carlisle and Washington, take Montclaire south. |
It's Not About The Bike by Lance Armstrong |
World champion bicyclist's bout with cancer.
16 copies in library. In paperback at a fine bookstore near you. |
[3rd] Thursday:
21 November 2002 [Thursday before Thanksgiving] |
Tom Genoni (292-4985)
1616 Catron SE |
The Heart of
the Matter
by Graham Greene |
Named as one of the 100 best English-language novels
of the century.
Novel by Graham Greene, published in 1948. The work is considered by some critics to be part of a "Catholic trilogy" that included Greene's Brighton Rock (1938) and The Power and the Glory (1940). Set during World War II in a bleak area of West Africa, the novel concerns the moral dilemmas facing Scobie, an honorable and decent deputy commissioner of police who is torn between compassion for his wife Louise and love and pity for Helen, a young widow with whom he has an affair. |
Thursday
19 December 2002 [Thursday before Christmas] |
Henry Ellis
(292-2658) 1709 Conestoga Dr SE - In 4-Hills, turn right on Stagecoach, past Rio Arriba, past Catron |
"Founding Brothers" by Joseph Ellis |
Non-fiction: 973.4 in the Library. ~ 20 copies available. |
Schedule for Year 2002
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