Tuesday, March 11, 2014
We've Moved
I will no longer be updating this blog. I have moved our book club information to Book Movement. All future club information will be updated there.
Sunday, January 26, 2014
February 17 Selection
Lisa has selected The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure as our first selection for 2014.
About the Author from Amazon
Charles Belfoure is an author and architect who lives in Westminster, Maryland. A graduate of the Pratt Institute and Columbia University, his practice is in historic preservation working as both an architect and historic preservation consultant with a a specialty in historic tax credit consulting. He has written architectural histories including being the co-author of The Baltimore Rowhouse and Niernsee & Neilson, Architects of Baltimore, the author of Monuments to Money: The Architecture of American Banks, and Edmund Lind, Anglo-American Architect of Baltimore and the South. He was the recipient of a grant from the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation and the Graham Foundation. His books have won awards from the Maryland Historical Trust. The Paris Architect is his first novel.
About the Book from Powell's Books
In 1942 Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money — and maybe get him killed. But if he's clever enough, he'll avoid any trouble. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can't resist. But when one of his hiding spaces fails horribly, and the problem of where to hide a Jew becomes terribly personal, Lucien can no longer ignore what's at stake. The Paris Architect asks us to consider what we owe each other, and just how far we'll go to make things right.
The Book Snobs Gathering
The Book Snobs will gather at Lisa's home on Monday, February 17.
Charles Belfoure is an author and architect who lives in Westminster, Maryland. A graduate of the Pratt Institute and Columbia University, his practice is in historic preservation working as both an architect and historic preservation consultant with a a specialty in historic tax credit consulting. He has written architectural histories including being the co-author of The Baltimore Rowhouse and Niernsee & Neilson, Architects of Baltimore, the author of Monuments to Money: The Architecture of American Banks, and Edmund Lind, Anglo-American Architect of Baltimore and the South. He was the recipient of a grant from the James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation and the Graham Foundation. His books have won awards from the Maryland Historical Trust. The Paris Architect is his first novel.
About the Book from Powell's Books
In 1942 Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission that will bring him a great deal of money — and maybe get him killed. But if he's clever enough, he'll avoid any trouble. All he has to do is design a secret hiding place for a wealthy Jewish man, a space so invisible that even the most determined German officer won't find it. He sorely needs the money, and outwitting the Nazis who have occupied his beloved city is a challenge he can't resist. But when one of his hiding spaces fails horribly, and the problem of where to hide a Jew becomes terribly personal, Lucien can no longer ignore what's at stake. The Paris Architect asks us to consider what we owe each other, and just how far we'll go to make things right.
The Book Snobs Gathering
The Book Snobs will gather at Lisa's home on Monday, February 17.
November Selection
Deanna selected And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini as her hostess choice selection for November.
About the Author
About the Book from Penguin Publishing
The Book Snobs Gathering
The Book Snobs met at Deanna's home for dinner and discussion on Monday, December 2.
About the AuthorKhaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. His novels The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns were international bestsellers, published in thirty-four countries. The graphic novel of The Kite Runner was published in 2011. In 2006 he was named a US Goodwill Envoy to the United Nations Refugee Agency. He lives in northern California. Bloomsbury has sold over six million copies of Khaled Hosseini's novels.
About the Book from Penguin Publishing
Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globefrom Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.
The Book Snobs Gathering
The Book Snobs met at Deanna's home for dinner and discussion on Monday, December 2.
October Selection
Sandra selected The Last Living Slut: Born in Iran, Bred Backstage by Roxana Shiraz.
About the Book from Harper CollinsThe Last Living Slut is the salaciously literary and sexually liberated account of one young woman’s transition from traditionally-raised Iranian to rock and roll groupie for Guns N Roses, Motley Crew, and many others. Paired with a powerful introduction by New York Times bestselling authors Neil Strauss and Anthony Bozza, Roxana Shirazi’s The Last Living Slut is a passionate tale of jilted love, brutal revenge, and backstage encounters that make Pamela Des Barres’s I’m With The Band read like the diary of a nun.
About the Author from Harper Collins
Born in Iran, with full-blood Persian playing host to my salacious flesh, I was sent to England at the age of 10 during the war. An English family took me in and I learned to speak English…and found out what Paki meant…and also learned what menstruation did to my bod. Here, at the age of 13 I had one of my first squirters to Axl Rose. I wrote my first book at the age of 14 about the street kids of Sao Paulo. I don’t know how I did it…I just did. Since then, I have written articles, poetry, and political prose. I speak at international women's conferences about gender theory and globalization. Love and passion and sex and kissing have inhabited me since I was a child when I made out with my boy and girl neighbors, although I lost my virginity at 24. James Douglas Morrison has forever been my god. I worship daily at the beauty of his words.
The Book Snobs Gathering
The Book Snobs gathered at Sandra's house on Monday, October 28, for dinner and discussion.
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