Next Meeting: Thursday, June 4 (noon) and Thursday, June 11 (7:30 a.m.) – People of the Book
May 31, 2009 at 4:07 pm | In Pre-meeting reading | Leave a CommentHaving enjoyed several of her other books, we selected Geraldine Brooks’s most recent book for June. The book focuses on the stories related to the “clues” left in the Sarajevo Haggadah and the story of Hanna Heath, a rare book conservator. Both Lisa Fugard and Janet Maslin wrote about the book in the New York Times. Additional reviews can be found on ReviewsOfBooks.com. Yale University has a website with information and photos of various Haggadah. High quality illustrations are also available on another website and maybe some of you will be able to identify some of the stories. The colorful illustrations use the same background of blue or orange colored squares. Geraldine Brooks’s website includes links to her NPR interview and a conversation among other resources. Pioneers of Book Conservation discusses the careers of pre-eminent US and UK book conservators.
The Namesake
May 7, 2009 at 1:59 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a CommentToday’s Book Group session generated interest in reading Nikolai Gogol’s The Overcoat. Feel free to leave your comments! Wikipedia has a bit of background on Nikolai Gogol. I also mentioned to the group that I thought that Natalie Friedman’s article “From hybrids to tourists: children of immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake” really brought out the central themes of the book and particularly the issues Gogol/Nikhil deals with as sort of an “in-between” generation.
Alison
Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
May 1, 2009 at 9:36 pm | In Pre-meeting reading | Leave a Comment
The first Children’s Hospital Reads Together program is planned for May 2009. The planned events include Book Group discussions, a cooking demonstration, Psychiatry Grand Rounds and a staff panel presentation. Make sure to enter the weekly trivia contest as each week we will award a gift card to the randomly selected winner. The library has compiled some background information:
Wikipedia has some interesting information on the “bhalo nam” or good name and “dak nam” or nickname. Apparently this is a tradition unique to Bengali families and not a common practice throughout India.
A great blog on Bengali cooking
Information about Calcutta, India
If you have seen the movie (the library has a copy available for loan), you might be interested in this review.
Seattle, Portland created an extensive Toolbox when they read the book together in 2003.
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