tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304491492012-01-12T19:50:52.652-05:00The 2nd Wednesday Book Group meets at Lifelong on Court Street in Ithaca on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 7:00 pm. We alternate reading fiction and nonfiction titles. On February 8, we'll discuss At Home: a short history of private life by Bill Bryson.2nd Wednesday Book Groupnoreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30449149.post-19990909632084703562011-11-06T00:02:00.003-04:002011-11-06T00:13:15.734-04:00Reviews for <i>The Tiger's Wife</i> by Te'a Obreht<div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/books/review/book-review-the-tigers-wife-by-tea-obreht.html?pagewanted=all">NYTimes</a></div><div><a href="http://www.observer.com/2011/culture/not-grown-ups-tigers-wife-tea-obreht">The New York Observer</a></div><div><a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/03/06/134228265/the-tigers-wife-a-young-talent-takes-on-folklore">NPR</a></div><div><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/27/entertainment/la-ca-obreht-review-20110327">LATimes</a></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30449149-1999090963208470356?l=2ndwednesday.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2nd Wednesday Book Groupnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30449149.post-87383893839463500112011-10-12T23:07:00.006-04:002012-01-12T19:49:11.539-05:00Upcoming books:<div>February 8 - <i>At Home: a short history of private life </i>by Bill Bryson</div><div>March 14 - <i>The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet </i>by David Mitchell</div><div>April 11 - <i>The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks </i>by Rebecca Skloot</div><div>May 9 - <i>What is the What; the autobiography of Valentino Ackak Deng </i>by Dave Eggers</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30449149-8738389383946350011?l=2ndwednesday.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2nd Wednesday Book Groupnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30449149.post-36489748551020067982011-05-11T21:21:00.000-04:002011-05-13T16:41:05.783-04:00<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V8NmSxqEsBU/Tcs2ZOADLCI/AAAAAAAAADY/6IFMnlo6_qU/s1600/May%2B2011.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 234px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V8NmSxqEsBU/Tcs2ZOADLCI/AAAAAAAAADY/6IFMnlo6_qU/s320/May%2B2011.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5605633968075648034" /></a><br />Here's our May 2011 photo.<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30449149-3648974855102006798?l=2ndwednesday.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2nd Wednesday Book Groupnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30449149.post-32075335465767024832010-05-15T08:11:00.001-04:002010-05-15T08:14:06.595-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Ab4BucN2YsU/S-6Pi6Q_DhI/AAAAAAAAAC8/NJduC3Ccitg/s1600/IMG_5841.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 216px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Ab4BucN2YsU/S-6Pi6Q_DhI/AAAAAAAAAC8/NJduC3Ccitg/s320/IMG_5841.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471468427220553234" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div>Here's the 2010 book group photo. The back row is in the shadows once again. Sorry about that. Next year, we'll move the couch even further out into the room so the back row can stand in the light along with everyone else.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30449149-3207533546576702483?l=2ndwednesday.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2nd Wednesday Book Groupnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30449149.post-77093783950112307992009-06-12T14:01:00.002-04:002009-06-14T08:41:13.658-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ab4BucN2YsU/SjTv3gk_piI/AAAAAAAAACs/JNIKakK6yMs/s1600-h/2ndwed.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 223px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ab4BucN2YsU/SjTv3gk_piI/AAAAAAAAACs/JNIKakK6yMs/s320/2ndwed.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347162394512565794" /></a><br />Here's our 2009 picture. If Jane sends me her photo, I'll put that up also.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30449149-7709378395011230799?l=2ndwednesday.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2nd Wednesday Book Groupnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30449149.post-37309606614237518652008-05-15T19:00:00.004-04:002008-06-04T18:29:51.099-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Ab4BucN2YsU/SCzAq1UZtXI/AAAAAAAAABY/5sJaSF71qOM/s1600-h/2ndwed5_08_2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Ab4BucN2YsU/SCzAq1UZtXI/AAAAAAAAABY/5sJaSF71qOM/s320/2ndwed5_08_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200743511805769074" border="0" /></a>2008 snapshot of some of the 2nd Wednesday Book Group members. Some<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span>folks are missing which is too bad. Perhaps we should do 2 photos each year. Between the two, we might catch everyone.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30449149-3730960661423751865?l=2ndwednesday.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2nd Wednesday Book Groupnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30449149.post-49231343893522709832008-03-24T19:51:00.040-04:002012-01-12T19:50:31.189-05:00Complete list of book discussed by 2nd Wednesday Book Group<div><br /></div><div>2012</div><div>January - Tatiana de Rosnay: <i>Sarah's Key</i></div><div><br /></div><div>2011</div><div>January - Lisa See: <i>The Shanghai Girls</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">February -Hampton Sides: <i>Hellhound On His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr.</i> and/or </span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">Martin Luther King, Jr.:</span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "> <i>Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community</i></span></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">March</span> - Michael Cunningham: <i>The Hours</i> and/or Virginia Woolf: <i>Mrs. Dalloway</i> </div><div>April - Barbara Ehrenreich:<i> Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America </i>or <i>Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream</i></div><div>May - John Burnham Schwartz: <i>The Commoner</i></div><div>June - Isabel Wilkerson: <i>The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration</i> / Kevin Boyle: <i>Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age</i></div><div>July - E.L. Doctorow: <i>Homer &amp; Langley</i></div><div>August<i> - </i>Tony Horwitz: <i>Confederates in the Attic</i> </div><div>September - Oswald Wynd: <i>The Ginger Tree</i> </div><div>October - Tracy Chevalier: <i>Remarkable Creatures</i> and/or Shelley Emling: <i>The Fossil Hunter</i> </div><div>November - Tea Obreht: <i>The Tiger's Wife</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">December -</span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "> Doris Kearns Goodwin: <i>Wait Til Next Year</i></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i><br /></i></span></i></div><div></div><div></div><div>2010<div>January - Kathryn Stockett:<i> The Help</i></div><div>February - snowed out</div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">March - Jon Meacham: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House</i></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">April - Mary Ann Shaffer &amp; Annie Barrows: </span><span class="Apple-style-span">The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society</span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">May - Ayaan Hirsi Ali: <i>Infidel</i></span></i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">June - <span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px; font-family:Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Christopher McDougall:</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span></span></i></span></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">July - </span></span>Annie Proulx: <i>The Shipping News</i></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">August - </span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">Jonathan Harr: </span></i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio </i><i>Masterpiece</i></span></i></div><div>September - Annie Dillard: <i>The Maytrees</i> </div><div>October - McCullough: <i>Truman</i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 19px;font-size:small;">November - Robert Goolrick: <i>A Reliable Wife</i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">December - Nicholas Kristof &amp; Sheryl WuDunn: <i>Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide</i> </span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(41, 48, 59); line-height: 19px; font-family:Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', sans-serif;font-size:small;"><div><br /></div></span><div><div><br /></div><div>2009<br />January - <span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">Ken Follett: </span>Lie Down With Lions</span><br />February - any book by Will Cather<br />March - <span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">John Berendt: </span>The City of Falling Angels</span><br />April - <span style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">Pete Hamill: </span>North River</span> <div>May - Ruth Reichl: <i>Garlic and Sapphires</i></div><div>June - Aravind Adiga: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">The White Tiger<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"></span></i>July - Thomas Friedman: <i>Hot, Flat, and Crowded</i> </div><div>August - John Steinbeck: <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i></div><div>September - Toni Morrison: <i>A Mercy</i> </div><div>October - David McCullough: <i>Mornings on Horseback</i></div><div>November - William Kennedy: <i>Ironweed</i></div><div>December -<i> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; ">Amy Dickinson: <i>The Mighty Queens of Freeville</i> </span></i></div><div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, sans-serif;color:#008000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span>2008<br />January – Elizabeth Cohen: <span style="font-style: italic;">The House on Beartown Road</span><br />February– Julia Glass: <span style="font-style: italic;">Three Junes</span><br />March – Timothy Egan: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Worst Hard Times</span><br />April – J. M. Coetzee: <span style="font-style: italic;">Disgrace</span><br />May – Any book by or about Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmons<br />June - Barbara Kingsolver: <span style="font-style: italic;">Animal, Vegetable, Miracle</span> and/or Michael Pollan: <span style="font-style: italic;">In Defense of Food</span><br />July - Julian Barnes: <span style="font-style: italic;">Arthur and George</span><br />August - Garry Wills: <span style="font-style: italic;">Lincoln at Gettysburg</span> and/or James L. Swanson: <span style="font-style: italic;">Manhunt</span><br />September - Sara Gruen: <span style="font-style: italic;">Water for Elephants</span><br />October - Jeffrey Toobin: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Nine</span><br />November - <span style="font-style: italic;">Amy Tan: Saving Fish From Drowning</span><br />December - Doris Kearns Goodwin: <span style="font-style: italic;">No Ordinary Time</span><br /><br />2007<br />January – Steven D. Levitt<span style="font-style: italic;">: Freakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything</span><br />February – Matthew Pearl: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Dante Club</span><br />March – Stephen Greenblatt: <span style="font-style: italic;">Will in the World, How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare</span><br />April – Geraldine Brooks: <span style="font-style: italic;">March</span><br />May – Joan Biskupic: <span style="font-style: italic;">Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice</span><br />June – Anna Quinlan: <span style="font-style: italic;">Rise and Shine</span><br />July – Peter Hessler: <span style="font-style: italic;">River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze</span><br />August – Nadine Gordimer: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Pickup</span><br />September – Tom Standage: <span style="font-style: italic;">History of the World in Six Glasses</span><br />October – Kim Edwards: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Memory Keeper's Daughter</span><br />November – Alice Hoffman: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Ice Queen</span><br />December – Jimmy Carter: <span style="font-style: italic;">Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid</span>. Norman Finkelstein: <span style="font-style: italic;">Beyond Chutzpa</span>. Alan Dershowitz: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Case for Peace</span>. Sandy Tolan: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Lemon Tree<br /><br /></span>2006<br />January – Bill Moyers: <span style="font-style: italic;">Moyers on America: a Journalist and His Times</span><br />February – Barbara Kingsolver: <span style="font-style: italic;">Prodigal Summer</span><br />March – Anne Fadiman: <span style="font-style: italic;">The spirit catches you and you fall down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures</span><br />April – Sue Monk Kidd: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Mermaid Chair</span><br />May – Zainab Salbi, Laurie Becklund: <span style="font-style: italic;">Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam</span><br />June – Mary Lawson: <span style="font-style: italic;">Crow Lake</span><br />July – Frank McCourt: <span style="font-style: italic;">Teacher Man</span><br />August – Marilynne Robinson: <span style="font-style: italic;">Gilead</span><br />September – Doris Kerns Goodwin: <span style="font-style: italic;">Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln</span><br />October – Louise Erdrich: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Master Butcher’s Singing Club</span><br />November – Jung Chang: <span style="font-style: italic;">Wild Swans: Three Women of China</span><br />December – Jane Austen: <span style="font-style: italic;">Sense and Sensibility<br /><br /></span>2005<br />January - Tracy Kidder: <span style="font-style: italic;">Mountains Beyond Mountains</span><br />February - Yann Martel: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Life of Pi</span><br />March – Khaled Hosseini: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Kite Runner</span><br />April – Non-fiction selections by the group<br />May – Alexander McCall Smith: <span style="font-style: italic;">No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency</span> or another book in the series<br />June – Susan Vreeland: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Girl in Hyacinth Blue</span><br />July – Miles Harvey: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Island of Lost Maps</span><br />August – Nicole Mones: <span style="font-style: italic;">A Cup of Light</span><br />September – John Hockenberry: <span style="font-style: italic;">Moving Violations</span> and/or Ann Patchett: <span style="font-style: italic;">Truth and Beauty</span><br />October – Chinua Achebe: <span style="font-style: italic;">Things Fall Apart</span><br />November – Malcolm Gladwell: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Tipping Point</span><br />December – Ann Patchett: <span style="font-style: italic;">Bel Canto</span><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /><br />2004<br />January -Thomas L. Friedman: <span style="font-style: italic;">From Beirut to Jerusalem</span><br />February -Anita Diament: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Red Tent</span><br />March - Anna Quindlen: <span style="font-style: italic;">Blessings</span><br />April - Hilary Clinton: <span style="font-style: italic;">Living History</span><br />May - Susan Choi: <span style="font-style: italic;">American Woman</span><br />June - Mark Haddon: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime</span><br />July - Marjane Satrapi: <span style="font-style: italic;">Persepolis</span><br />August - Edward P. Jones: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Known World</span><br />September - Cokie Roberts: <span style="font-style: italic;">Founding Mothers</span><br />October - Mitch Albom: <span style="font-style: italic;">Five People You Meet in Heaven</span><br />November - Jack Kerouac: <span style="font-style: italic;">On the Road</span><br />December - Anita Shreve: any novel by this author<br /><br />2003<br />October - Laura Hillenbrand: <span style="font-style: italic;">Seabiscuit</span><br />November - Madeleine Albright: <span style="font-style: italic;">Madame Secretary: a Memoir</span><br />December - Sue Monk Kidd: <span style="font-style: italic;">The Secret Life of Bees</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30449149-4923134389352270983?l=2ndwednesday.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2nd Wednesday Book Groupnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30449149.post-12647895398101389882007-05-17T07:34:00.000-04:002007-05-17T08:17:15.300-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Ab4BucN2YsU/RkxHvgiiyJI/AAAAAAAAAAc/jFhefWOcWJw/s1600-h/2ndwed3a.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_Ab4BucN2YsU/RkxHvgiiyJI/AAAAAAAAAAc/jFhefWOcWJw/s320/2ndwed3a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065502562399209618" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This photo was taken on May 9 after our discussion of <span style="font-style: italic;">Sandra Day O'Connor</span>. As the photographer, Jane is out of the frame.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/30449149-1264789539810138988?l=2ndwednesday.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>2nd Wednesday Book Groupnoreply@blogger.com0