Welcome to the 2010-2011 Season of Literary Masters! Grab your reading glasses and crawl into your comfy chair--we have a whole lot of pages to turn, and what wonderful pages they are! This season we are 'digging deep' into prize winning literature that is guaranteed to make you think, make you feel, and possibly, just possibly, make you act.
Drum roll please!
This season we will be reading and discussing the following:*
September: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver--winner of the 2010 Orange Prize for fiction.
October: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde--a classic and a must-read. Our discussion will be nothing like your high school English class!
November: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann--winner of the 2009 National Book Award.
December: Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick--a non-fiction book that really does read like a novel! Winner of the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize.
January: Family Album by Penelope Lively--the latest from this English author who has won the Man Booker and Whitbread awards, among others.
February: To Be Announced!
March: A Long Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka--winner of 2010 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award.
May: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell--will this book land its multiple-award winning author on the 2010 Man Booker long or short list?
More news! The Jane Austen Literary Salon is back this season. Check our "Book Groups & Salons" page for more info.
Also, our Mother/ Daughter book groups continue. I just love my little lit-lovers! Check "Book Groups & Salons" for more info.
Don't forget to visit my 'Stick with Lit' blog, a dynamic place for all things literary. You can click here to visit it. Something new--I've been WHIRLing. WHIRL stands for What Have I Read Lately, and I invite you all to WHIRL along with me!
*I am reserving the right to change
any title (I am constantly finding fabulous books--it's hard work, what I
do!)
