Book Club Guidelines

  • Every 3 months we will introduce a new Series Topic that will include a Nonfiction, Fiction, and Biography book relating to the chosen topic.
  • Series topics and books will be chosen by members present at book club meetings.
  • If you cannot make a meeting, but wish to provide suggestions for topics and books, please click the link on the right and email Mandi, our Book Club Moderator.
  • Meeting locations are chosen in much the same fashion as Series and books, with an effort to rotate locations by geographic, Greater Milwaukee area.

Thursday, March 27, 2008

April 2008: Education Series - Fiction

When:
Tuesday, April 29th
5:30-drinks, 6:00-dinner & discussion

Where:
Firefly Bar & Grill in Wauwatosa
7754 Harwood Avenue

What:
We're continuing our Education Series with the book Bee Season by Myla Goldberg - our fiction book of the series.



Book Description:

In Myla Goldberg's outstanding first novel, a family is shaken apart by a small but unexpected shift in the prospects of one of its members. When 9-year-old Eliza Naumann, an otherwise indifferent student, takes first prize in her school spelling bee, it is as if rays of light have begun to emanate from her head. Teachers regard her with a new fondness; the studious girls begin to save a place for her at lunch. Even Eliza can sense herself changing. She had "often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see."


Read more here!