AAUW Harrisburg has two very active book groups. Meeting details and contact info are on our Activities and Calendar pages.

AAUW Afternoon Book Group 2013-2014

What a good year we have planned. We meet from October to June on the first Tuesday afternoon of each month at 1:00. Our planning meeting is in June during a pot luck at Jan’s home. Lots of ideas and books are suggested. We include fiction, non-fiction and biography. The I-Pads, smart phones, etc. are powered up for reviews of the books suggested. Since so many of our members travel extensively and are in or retired from interesting careers, we can really relate to some of the books. Here is our schedule for 2013-2014:

October            The Light Between Oceans               M.L. Stedmen

November       A Delicate Truth                                     John Le Carre

December        Christmas Lunch

January              The Swerve                                             Stephen Greenblatt

February            The Fish That Ate the Whale           Rich Cohen

March                 The Power of One                               Bryce Courtney

April                     The Judgment of Paris                       Ross King

May                     The Sandcastle Girls                            Chris Bohjalian

June                    Planning meeting

Our ladies are reading the following books this summer:

Jan- The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud, Life After Life by Kate Atkinson, And the Mountains Echoed by Khalid Hosseini and Mudbound by Hilary Jordan.

Pat- Thomas Jefferson by Jon Meacham, Casting Off by Nicole Dickson(sp).

Mary Linn- Last Friends (end of trilogy) by Jane Gardem, The Plantagenets by Dan Jones.

Lillian- The Secret Rescue by Catie Lineberry, Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel, A Conspiracy of Faith by Jussi Adler-Olsen.

Lorraine- The Fault of the Stars by John Green, Inferno by Dan Brown.

Some book blogs I recommend to the ladies;

www.bluepueblo.tumblr.com – beautiful pictures from around the world,www.desktopretreat.blogspot.com- good quotes and reviews,www.robertarood.wordpress.com-fellow AAUW and retired librarian or teacher in Maryland with good reviews and photos of trips and www.thedianerehmshow.org–from 10-12:00 weekdays on WITF, good book interviews from 11-12:00.

Many ladies have been in this group since the 1980’s! We continue on with good friends and new members. We are looking forward to a fun year.

BOOKHOUND

                                                              “To read or not to read…..

                                                                    now that’s a silly question.”