Book Club Not Meeting »
July 29th, 2008Book club will not meet in November and December
Into the Wild - by Jon Krakauer »
July 29th, 2008[ August 27, 2008; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ]
Book for month of August
What would possess a gifted young man recently graduated from college to literally walk away from his life? Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.
Described by friends [...]
Micah’s Child - by Lang and Buchanan »
July 29th, 2008[ September 24, 2008; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ]
Book for month of September
Author, Michael Buchanan, will visit Skylake for a book review.
Still reeling from the traumas suffered during her teenage motherhood, Catherine’s self-imposed guilt keeps her locked in a loveless marriage. Her suburban neighborhood provides no solace or chance for redemption; her neighbors use metro Atlanta to hide from demons of their own [...]
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail »
July 28th, 2008[ October 22, 2008; 10:00 am to 11:00 am. ]
Book for month of October
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia to Maine. The AT offers an astonishing landscape of silent forests and sparkling lakes — and to a writer with the comic genius [...]
Loving Frank: A Novel - by Nancy Horan »
May 20th, 2008Book for month of May
It’s a rare treasure to find a historically imagined novel that is at once fully versed in the facts and unafraid of weaving those truths into a story that dares to explore the unanswered questions. Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Cheney’s love story is–as many early reviews of Loving Frank have [...]
