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March 2009 Book Clubs Schedule
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02-11-2009 04:10 PM
The March 2009 Book Clubs Schedule
March 2 to 27
Talk about Books & Authors
Kim Harrison -- March 2 to 6
Kim Harrison joins us this week to talk about White Witch, Black Curse and the return of witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan. See all Kim Harrison titles.
Linda Fairstein -- March 9 to 13
Linda Fairstein joins us this week for a discussion of Lethal Legacy, the new Alex Cooper thriller set in the catacombs beneath the New York Public Library. See all Linda Fairstein titles.
Laura Lippman -- March 16 to 20
The incomparable Laura Lippman talks to us about her latest novel, Life Sentences. See all Laura Lippman titles.
Jeffrey Archer -- March 23 to 27
Jeffrey Archer returns with a novel reimagining the George Mallory's conquest of Mount Everest in Paths of Glory. See all Jeffrey Archer titles.
New Reads with Rachel Kubie: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet with the author, Jamie Ford.
Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery: the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol.
This simple act takes old Henry Lee back to the 1940s, at the height of the war, when young Henry’s world is a jumble of confusion and excitement, and to his father, who is obsessed with the war in China and having Henry grow up American. While “scholarshipping” at the exclusive Rainier Elementary, where the white kids ignore him, Henry meets Keiko Okabe, a young Japanese American student. Amid the chaos of blackouts, curfews, and FBI raids, Henry and Keiko forge a bond of friendship -- and innocent love -- that transcends the long-standing prejudices of their Old World ancestors. And after Keiko and her family are swept up in the evacuations to the internment camps, she and Henry are left only with the hope that the war will end, and that their promise to each other will be kept.
Forty years later, Henry Lee is certain that the parasol belonged to Keiko. In the hotel’s dark dusty basement he begins looking for signs of the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot begin to measure. Now a widower, Henry is still trying to find his voice -- words that might explain the actions of his nationalistic father; words that might bridge the gap between him and his modern, Chinese American son; words that might help him confront the choices he made many years ago.
First Look
Stay tuned for news about the next selection!
Talk about Genres & Ideas
The Classics book club partners with Masterpiece Classic on PBS to read David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.
Dickens scholar, Dr. Tatiana Holway, will join the discussion from March 16 to 27. And throughout the month the club will also be talking about Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction.
The Crime book club reads The Cutie by Donald E. Westlake and Half of Paradise by James Lee Burke.
The Current Events book club reads The Forever War by Dexter Filkins and Ghost Wars by Steve Coll.
The Epics book club reads Dante's The Inferno.
The Fantasy & Science Fiction reads Lamentation by Ken Scholes; as well as Black Blood and Bone Song by John Meaney.
The Fiction book club reads Basketball Jones by E. Lynn Harris.
The Gardening book club digs Down to Earth by Margot Rochester and soaks up Low-Water No-Water Garden by Pattie Barron.
The Literature by Women book club reads Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.
The Mystery book club welcomes Karen Rose as she joins the converation about her latest book Kill for Me. The club will also read Homicide in Hardcover by Kate Carlisle.
The Paranormal book club welcomes Kim Harrison, the author of White Witch, Black Curse and Marcus Pelegrimas, the author of Blood Blade.
The Romantic Reads book club welcomes Susan Elizabeth Phillips, the author of What I Did for Love.
The Shakespeare book club reads Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
And be sure to visit Ande's Book Explorers board and Ilana's Literature and Life board for regular posts about the reading life.
