PVHS Staff Book Club
October 2008
DATE: Wednesday, October
8th -- 4 p.m.
BOOK: Three Cups of Tea
by Greg Mortenson (If you buy this, please donate it PVHS so we can have classes
also read the book) This is Chico's Book in Common and there will be activities
planned all year about this book. I'll try and send out information to you
frequently.
PLACE: Grilla Bites - in the In Motion Fitness
club (just to the left after you enter the front door)
November 2008
DATE: Nov.
5
BOOK: Peace Like a River
by Enger
PLACE: TBA
Suggestions for future books:
Beneath a Marble Sky by
John Shors "The story
of the eldest daughter of the 17th-century emperor who built the Taj Mahal"
Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
"This novel takes on daunting themes of love, money, race, and belief
systems Casey Han is a Princeton grad, class
of '93, and it is her conflicts, relationships, and temperament that inform
the novel. She has catapulted out of that life on scholarships
but now that college is over, she hasn't the same opportunities as her white
friends, even though she has acquired all of their expensive habits."
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Florentino Ariza engages in hundreds
of liasons over the course of fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven
days, while waiting to finally possess Fermina Daza, a woman who once promised
Florentino her love, but then jilted him in favor of another.
Quantum Wellness by Kathy
Freston
"a tale of first-generation immigrants stuck between stodgy parents and
the hip new world. "
Wild Nights by Joyce Carol Oates "In
her latest story collection, Oates rewrites the final days of some of America's
greatest authors. She pays homage to Poet, Dickinson, Twaine, James and Hemingway
by writing vividly about each writer's life in his or her trademark style."
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. (non-fiction)
The true adventure
of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the last mysteries
of WWII.
December 2008
DATE: Dec.
10th
BOOK: The Clothes they Stood
Up In by Alan
Bennett
PLACE: Marge's Home
"Maurice and Rosemary Ransome return home from the opera and discover
their flat has been burglarized and everything has been taken."
January 2009
DATE: TBA
BOOK: Eragon by
Christopher Paolini
PLACE: TBA