29 January 2009
dickj43@yahoo.com
7120 Hawthorn Avenue, NE
797-4530
Go East on Alameda .7 miles. Turn left (North) at the 4-way stop at Louisiana. Go 0.5 miles (3rd street) to Florence. Turn right. Go 0.1 mile to Palm Yucca. Turn right. Go 0.1 mile. Palm Yucca dead ends at Hawthorn. Turn right. 7120 is the 4th house on the left.
26 February 2009
Don
Tubesing
Placitas, NM 87043
505 771-1601
Tubesingda@aol.com
The February meeting will be the last meeting Don hosts prior to moving to Middleton, Wisconsin.
The distribution of the book was handled at the January meeting.
Thursday
26 March 2009
1616 Catron SE
Translated from the Portugeuse. Blindness is the story of an unexplained mass epidemic of white blindness afflicting nearly everyone in an unnamed city, and the social breakdown that swiftly follows. The novel follows the misfortunes of a handful of characters who are among the first to be stricken and centers around a doctor and his wife, several of the doctor’s patients, and assorted others, thrown together by chance. Has recently been made into a film that features Mark Ruffalo as a ophthalmologist.
There are 3 regular copies in the
30 April 2009
Ron Bousek
(262-0207)
701 Loma
Linda
Pl SE
Lead/Coal;
between
Carlisle and Washington, take
Montclaire
south
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin:
by David Quammen
The Library System has 5 copies available. Order a used one now from DealOz.com at a bargain price!
Thursday
28 May 2009
Ken Gillen
(797-8956)
331 White Oaks Dr. NE
(From Tramway and Live Oak Rd [one block N. of Paseo del Norte], go EAST 0.6 mi on Live Oak, then SOUTH 0.3 mi on White Oaks Dr. to last house on right. Pay no attention to most of the house numbers.).
many copies
Six copies in the Library with 3 holds on first returned - try DealOz.com or get a Kindle!
25 June 200
Jack Ferrell
17 Sunset Blvd
Placitas, NM
I-25 Exit 242
East on NM 165.
HARD right onto Sunset Blvd
(100 yards)
Junot Diaz interview on Steven Colbert - devastatingly funny!
NY Times review of the book
New Yorker text from the book
The Asylum review of the book
The Guardian interview of Junot Diaz
Bookslut interview of Junot Diaz
30 July 2009
913 Parkland Circle SE
From
Wyoming, go West on Zuni to Carlisle;
Go South on Carlisle until the median disappears;
(or changes drastically);
Go East;
Keith is on this street, on the North side.
12 copies in our APL system. A must read story about a 90 year old man remembering his days with a circus during The Great Depression.
Discussion Questions
Review 1: BookBrowse
Review 2 New York Times
Review 3 Amazon.com Editorial Reviews
Other site of interest. The Movie
27 August 2009
Ed
Duff
(823-1872)
Tanoan
area:
9709 Pebble Beach NE
(Enter Tanoan onto
Tanoan Drive,
north off Academy, between Eubank and
Ventura. Take 3rd left onto Pebble Beach Drive.
2nd
house
on right.)
24 September 2009
Rob Easterling (286-8796)
East Mountains: 51 Avenida del Sol,
Cedar Crest, NM 87008
Take N14 4.5 mi. N of I-40
(exit 175, Cedar Crest).
Turn Left into Ventana del Sol subdivision.
Follow
keypad instructions.
Heinlein's entry here in Wikipedia. There are six copies in our Library system. Check with DealOz.com or Amazon.com. No copies for your Kindle available.
29 October 2009
| Joel Nash
|
"In Cold Blood
" by Truman
Capote: It is considered the originator of the non-fiction novel
and the
forerunner of the New Journalism movement (wikipedia), and
has been
noted for the quality of the writing.
Fourteen copies in our Library system
Excerpts printed in The New Yorker
19 November 2009
[Thursday before Thanksgiving]
Charlie Palmer (243-4962)
1506 Park SW
From
I-25, go West on Central or
Lomas; then South
on 14th St.
Cross Central, continue 2 or
3 blocks,
then turn right onto Park (1st stop sign).
The Untouchable, by John Banville. Two copies in the library. Published in 1997, so there are plenty of new and used paperbacks out there such as here through DealOz.com
368 pages. From 1997 here is the New York Times review. by Patrick McGrath.
Who does not love stories with an imbecile brother? Who did not like "Dirty Rotten Scroundrels"? Steve Martin plays a great imbecile! Compare and contrast ...
17 December 2009
[the Thursday before Christmas Eve]
Mike
Blackledge (294-6030)
14321 Stalgren Ct NE
(from
Tramway & Copper, go East 5 blocks [counting on right],
then right on Parkside,
immediate left onto Stalgren Ct.)
The book is about 370 pages in length. Eight copies are available through our Library System.
Extra credit: any of the other two portions of the Trilogy, or the recently published new approach: Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Viking Penguin, 2003, hardcover, 512 pages, ISBN 0-670-03133-X
