Below is the ballot for Spring books. Please choose four in order of preference and email me your choices, or vote in person during our October meeting. The city is celebrating the works of Mark Twain through May, so if we want, why not read some Twain.
War Dances – Sherman Alexie
Columbine – Dave Cullen
Valis – Philip K. Dick
Zeitoun – David Eggers
The Vagrants – Yiyun Li
1776 – David McCollough
Inherent Vice – Thomas Pynchon
Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock-n-Roll – Nick Tosches
Letters from the Earth – Mark Twain
Poor People – William T. Vollmann
Our current book is Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. We meet the 2nd Wednesday of every month in the Main Library in Conference Room 3 at noon. Feel free to bring a lunch.
Great service, and thanks to Bryan and team that set this up. This will be a quality improvement if we use it.
I like the nominated books: Columbine – Dave Cullen,
Valis – Philip K. Dick, Zeitoun – David Eggers. The Vagrants – Yiyun Li. 1776 – David McCollough, Inherent Vice – Thomas Pynchon, Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock-n-Roll – Nick Tosches, Letters from the Earth – Mark Twain, Poor People – William T. Vollmann
I would much like to read and discuss any of them, especial Valis by Dick (Michael Dirda keep writing how good he is), Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon (because I’ve never dared to try to read him and this is short and gets rave reviews), and Poor People by Vollman and the Columbine book by Cullen (because Bryan recommend both and I loved the reviews I read of Columbine.