The Book Club is an informal discussion group of books chosen by
the attendees. We meet once a month around the 4th Wednesday (actual
date chosen by vote). Meetings are held in homes
of volunteers who also provide light refreshments.
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert.
7pm, Wed. April @ Marvin and Keisha's house in central Austin. Email judys at the ank.com addy for more info and directions.
Upcoming Books: May: Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism Into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show by Geoffrey Nunberg June: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky July: The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo August: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Supersition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer| Dec '07 | Many books but we watched a production of HOGFATHER by Terry Pratchet | |
| Nov' 07 | Series Books | Various |
| Oct '07 |
The World Without Us |
Alan Weisman |
| Sept '07 |
Freakonomics |
Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner |
| Aug '07 |
True Women |
Janice Woods Windle |
| Jul '07 |
Being Dead is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral |
Charlotte Hays and Gayden Metcalfe |
| May '07 |
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic |
Alison Bechdel |
| Apr 07 | Under the Banner of Heaven: A story of Violent Faith | John Krakaeur |
| Mar '07 | Cell: A Novel | Stephen King |
| Feb '07 |
Driving Mr. Albert: A trip across America with Einstein's Brain |
Michael Paterniti |
| Nov '06 |
DON'T EAT THIS BOOK: FAST FOOD AND THE SUPERSIZING OF AMERICA |
Morgan Spurlock |
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Oct '06 |
STIFF: THE CURIOUS LIFE OF HUMAN CADAVERS by Mary Roach OR SPOOK: SCIENCE TACKLES ;THE AFTERLIFE by Mary Roach OR WHEN WE DIE: THE SCIENCE, CULTURE AND RITUALS OF DEATH by Cedric Mims. |
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| Sept '06 |
UNDER THE BLACK FLAG: The Romance and the Reality of life among the Pirates |
David Cordingly |
| Aug '06 | MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE | Philip K. Dick |
| July '06 | CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE | Richard Dawkins |
| June '06 | PRETTY BIRDS | Scott Simon |
| May '06 |
WATCHMEN by Alan Moore; DEATH: THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE by Neil Gaiman; and ONE HUNDRED DEMONS by Linda Barry. |
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Apr '06 |
A Sand County Almanac | Aldo Leopold |
| Mar '06 | The Wee Free Men | Terry Pratchett |
| Feb '06 | The Autobiography of Ben Franklin | Ben Franklin |
| Jan '06 | Open Discussion | |
| Dec '05 | Three Men in a Boat | Jerome K. Jerome |
| Nov '05 |
BLINK: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking |
Malcolm Gladwel |
| Oct '05 | A Night in the Lonesome October | Roger Zelazny |
| Sept '05 | The Time-Traveler's Wife |
Audrey Niffenegger |
| Aug '05 | Collapse | Jared Diamond |
| July '05 | Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Mark Harmon |
| June '05 | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman |
Richard P. Feynman |
| May '05 |
The Dogs of Babel |
Carolyn Parkhurst |
| Apr '05 | Open Discussion | |
| Mar '05 | Galileo's Daughter | Dava Sobel |
| Feb '05 |
To Say Nothing of the Dog |
Connie Willis |
| Jan '05 |
The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee |
Stewart Lee Allen |
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Dec '04 |
84 Charing Cross Road |
Helene Hanff |
| Nov '04 |
Holidays on Ice |
David Sedaris |
| Oct '04 | Middlesex |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
| Sept '04 | Open Discussion | |
| Aug '04 | Bombay Ice | Leslie Forbes |
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July `04 |
The Man in the Ice | Konrad Spindler |
| June '04 |
Lost in Translation |
Nicole Mones |
| May '04 |
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters |
Matt Ridley |
| Apr '04 | Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil |
John Berendt |
| Mar '04 | Nickel & Dimed: On (not) getting by in America | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Feb '04 | The Sparrow | Mary Doria Russell |
| Jan '04 | Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer |
| Dec '03 | Holes | Louis Sachar |
| Nov '03 | The Dance of Intimacy | Harrier Lerner |
| Oct '03 | Open Discussion | |
| Sep '03 | How the Mind Works | Steve Pinter |
| Aug '03 | The Road to Wellness | T. Coraghessan Boyle |
| Jul '03 | With Santa Anna in Texas | the journal of Jose Enrique de la Pena |
| Jun '03 | Darwin's Radio | Greg Bear |
| May '03 | Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences | John Allen Paulos |
| Apr '03 | Smilla's Sense of Snow | Peter Hoeg |
| Mar '03 | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Thomas Kuhn |
| Feb '03 | Middle Age: A Romance | Joyce Carol Oates |
| Jan '03 | Botany of Desire: A plant's eye view of the world | Michael Pollan |
| Dec '02 | Open Discussion | |
| Nov '02 | Thank you for Smoking | Christopher Buckley |
| Oct '02 | A Walk in the Woods | Bill Bryson |
