NON-FICTION BOOK BUNCH NEWS The NON-FICTION BOOK BUNCH meets monthly on Wednesdays at 1:30PM at the Cedar Key Library. Selected texts follow. Many are available in Kindle editions, paperback, and other formats. - February 27, 2013: Richard Davidson`s and Sharon Begley`s The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How Its Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live--- and How You Can Change Them - March 27, 2013: David McCullough`s The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris - April 17, 2013: Edmund deWaal`s The Hare with the Amber Eyes is the selected non-fiction text. This memoir focuses upon a collection of small Japanese carvings called netsuke that have been in a family for generations and tells of how they came to be a collection. A sense of the times and character of the distinguished family are portrayed. The April meeting is planned as a joint fiction nonfiction group gathering; please, bring a covered dish. Hope to see you there. FICTION BOOK BUNCH NEWS The FICTION BOOK BUNCH meets monthly on Mondays at 1:30PM at the Cedar Key Library. Selections follow. - February 11: This meeting will discuss Tracy Chevalier`s Remarkable Creatures. This novel takes readers back to the nineteenth century to a fossil strewn beach where a woman discovers a skeleton that will turn her town, its churches, and the scientists of the time into a whirl of discovery and argument. - March 11: Owen Sheers` Resistance will be discussed. This novel focuses upon a Welch village during World War II German invasion of Britain. - April 11: Edmund deWaal`s The Hare with the Amber Eyes is the selected non-fiction text. This memoir focuses upon a collection of small Japanese carvings called netsuke that have been in a family for generations and tells of how they came to be a collection. A wonderful sense of the times and character of the distinguished family are portrayed. The April meeting is planned as a joint fiction nonfiction group gathering; please, bring a covered dish. The above notes are from Maggie Funchion. Hope to see you there. |