1) Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (this is the front runner)
2) Collapse by Jared Diamond
3) Grayson by Lynne Cox
4) Suit Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky and Sandra Smith
5) A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
6) Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
7) Our Kind by Marvin Harris
8) Devil in the White City by Erik Larsen
9) The Path Between the Seas by David McCullough (and various others by this author)
10) The Sookie Stackhouse series (on which HBO's True Blood is based) by Charlaine Harris
I think 10 is a good start. Vote, veto, and keep suggestions coming for a week or two! Then we'll make a final decision and start reading......
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I recently saw your post about reading Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française. I wanted to pass along some information on an exciting new exhibition about Némirovsky's life, work, and legacy at the Museum of Jewish Heritage —A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. Woman of Letters: Irène Némirovsky and Suite Française, which will run through the middle of March, will include powerful rare artifacts — the actual handwritten manuscript for Suite Française, the valise in which it was found, and many personal papers and family photos. The majority of these documents and artifacts have never been outside of France. For fans of her work, this exhibition is an opportunity to really “get to know” Irene. And for those who can’t visit, there will be a special website that will live on the Museum’s site www.mjhnyc.org/irene
The Museum will host several public programs over the course of the exhibition’s run that will put Némirovsky’s work and life into historical and literary context. Book clubs and groups are invited to the Museum for tours and discussions in the exhibition’s adjacent Salon (by appointment). It is the Museum’s hope that the exhibit will engage visitors and promote dialogue about this extraordinary writer and the complex time in which she lived and died. To book a group tour, please contact Chris Lopez at 646.437.4304 or clopez@mjhnyc.org. Please visit our website at www.mjhnyc.org for up-to-date information about upcoming public programs or to join our e-bulletin list.
Thanks for sharing this info with your readers. If you need any more, please do not hesitate to contact me at hfurst@mjhnyc.org
museum spam? that's a first. I'd like to echo my comments in the last post: Little Brother!
I'm willing to read any of these. So I'll go with the front runner.
WOOT! I'm already reading Little Brother....
....let me tell you all how it ends...see...there is this flat, white, smooth sheet of paper. On it are these very dark, almost sinister, characters.
Wait...isn't that how all books end?
I'm sorry I missed the meeting. Quite a few people I work with are now reading Little Brother. My son will get my copy when he comes down from Seattle. I ordered my copy of Snow Crash. so I will get busy with it this week-end. See you all soon.
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