Carrollwood Cultural Center 
Book Club

Meeting ReminderNovember 2010
 Headshot of Kathy SmithGreetings!

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Tomorrow night, November 22, please join us at 7:00 p.m. for our regularly scheduled 4th Monday night Book Discussion meeting at the Carrollwood Cultural Center.  Let's convene in the lobby of the Cultural Center, please, and then proceed upstairs. And as always, it's OK to attend the meeting even if you didn't quite finish the book, or if you read it long ago.

The November book is Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World.  Valerie R. suggested this book about a year ago, long before the numerous headlines about earthquakes, floods, and recent outbreaks of disease in Haiti. Thus, I am finding this story even more powerful and inspiring to read.

I've provided additional information about this book and author, from the Barnes & Noble website (Interviews and Essays:  A Conversation with Tracy Kidder, and a Reading Group Guide designed for discussion groups like ours).  Click the links below to learn more.
  
Thanks to all who took part in suggesting and voting on titles for next year's Reading List.  A few of us met on November 15th and tallied all the votes. (Thanks, Joyce and Jean!)
Special thanks to Jean K. and her efforts with the Jimmie B. Keel Library to hold next year's titles for us!
 
Without further ado, here is the official 2011 Reading List:

 

Shalimar the Clown - Salman Rushdie   Jan 24

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail-- Bill Bryson  Feb 28

Charming Billy-- Alice McDermott  March 28

The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls  April 25

The Elegance of the Hedgehog -Muriel Burberry  May 23

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl -- Timothy Egan    Jun 27

Drowning Ruth-- Christina Schwartz    July 25

Washington Square - Henry James   August 22

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet-Jamie Ford    Sept 26

When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present - Gail Collins    Oct 24

Cutting for Stone-- Abraham Verghese   Nov  28
 
Remember, no Book Discussion Meeting in December--relax and enjoy the holidays!  We'll convene again in January, ready to dive in again!
Kathy S. Smith  
 
Book Cover - Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farner Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer 
November 22
Tracy Kidder has penned a well researched and inspirational story in his book Mountains Beyond Mountains.  

Here's a link to the website for Partners in Health, an organization that Farmer co-founded to provide health care for the poor:  http://www.pih.org/

You can click here to view a video of Farmer, speaking about what he saw just after the Haiti earthquake in February 2010. 
 
Author and Harvard graduate Tracy Kidder has his own website, http://www.tracykidder.com  with synopses of this and his other books.




 
 
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About CCC Book Club Meetings
 
We meet regularly on the 4th Monday of each month, at 7:00 p.m., at Carrollwood Cultural Center, 4537 Lowell Road, Tampa, FL.  All are invited:  bring a friend!
 
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Kathy Smith