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Gilroy Library Book Club See the Book Club titles chosen for this year or read about the book chosen for our next meeting below. The Santa Clara County Library's selected Web Sites for Reading lists sites with reading and discussion tips for your favorite books.

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Next meeting: Tuesday January 26th, 2010 at 7 p.m. Gilroy Library Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts Having escaped an Australian maximum security prison, a disillusioned man loses himself in the slums of Bombay, where he works for a drug kingpin, smuggles arms for a crime lord, and forges bonds with fellow exiles.

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The Book Club:

The Gilroy Library Book Club meets in the Library's Community Room on the last Tuesday of every month, from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. New members are always welcome. A librarian facilitates the group but discussion is freewheeling and member-driven.

Books are selected by club members and purchased by Friends of the Gilroy Library for Book Club use. Books are available (a month at a time) at the Adult Reference Desk. Please feel free to join us for a lively discussion!

Contact:

For more information, please contact Sally Leete at (408) 842-8208.

Gilroy Library Book Club Titles
January 2010 – June 2010

 

Note: some dates may change to accommodate our move to a temporary library location, before new library construction begins.

• February 23rd: Silicon Valley Reads 2010: In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan (2008)
  Our program will include watching the video of the Kick-Off event on-stage interview of Michael Pollan by Mercury News columnist Mike Cassidy. (Approximately 60 minutes)

  “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."

  
  

• March 30th: Suite Française by Irene Nemirovsky (2004)
  A story of life in France under the Nazi occupation includes two parts--"Storm in June," set amid the chaotic 1940 exodus from Paris, and "Dolce," set in a German-occupied village rife with resentment, resistance, and collaboration.
  
  

• April 27th: González and Daughter Trucking Co.: a road novel with literary license by María Amparo Escandón (2005)
  A model prisoner at the Mexicali Penal Institution for Women, Libertad González leads the weekly Library Club, reading aloud from whatever books she can find and, in the process, revealing the story of her father.
  
  

• May 25th: The Last Queen by C. W. Gortner (2008)
  Summary: Juana of Castile is just thirteen when she witnesses the fall of Moorish Granada and uniting of the fractured kingdoms of Spain under her warrior parents, Isabel and Fernando. Intelligent and beautiful, proud of her heritage, Juana rebels against her fate when she is chosen as a bride for the Hapsburg heir-- until she arrives in Flanders and comes face-to-face with the prince known as Philip the Fair, a man who will bring her the greatest of passions, and the darkest despair.
  
  

• June 29th: by John Grisham, title to be determined.

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