Meeting #1       My Own Country: A Doctor's Story 
                            by Abraham Verghese
                               
                         Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 from 7:00-9:00

                                    Call Beth Brown if you will be attending. 

                                 Our off-season meeting is held at a private home.

 Since so many of us enjoyed Cutting for Stone, we selected My Own Country by the same author for our March choice. It is the personal story of Verghese's work with AIDS patients in rural Tennessee.

 Meeting #2:      Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
                              by Helen Simonson 

                           Sunday, May 20, 2012

                           TYC Clubhouse

                            12:00--1:00 p.m. 

This book lets us live with retired Major Pettigrew in a small English village for awhile.There are definitely some funny moments in this book, but there also is plenty to discuss.

Meeting #3:   Breakfast with Buddha
                        by Roland Merullo

                       Sunday, June 10th

                       TYC Clubhouse                            

                       12:00--1:00 p.m.

  

Breakfast With Buddha has been described as a "beautiful, moving and even necessary book."

Meeting #4:   The Kitchen House 
                        by Kathleen Grissom

                      Sunday, July 15th

                      TYC Clubhouse   

                       12:00--1:00 p.m.

                        

                               

Kathleen Grissom's book gives us a new and
unforgettable perspective on slavery in the Old South.

 

Meeting #5:    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
                        by Mark Haddon

                      Sunday, August 12, 2012

                      TYC Clubhouse   

                       12:00--1:00 p.m.

Although this book has been around for awhile, we thought it might be something the Book Club would enjoy talking about. The story is written from the first-person perspective of a 15-year-old boy who describes himself as ‘a mathematician with some behavioral difficulties.’  While the narrator does not use the words autism or Asperger's syndrome, descriptions of the book do.

 Meeting #6      The Hunger Games 
                           by Suzanne Collins

                        Sunday, September 9, 2012

                        TYC Clubhouse   

                        12:00--1:00 p.m.

 This book is about a futuristic society. The United States is gone. North America has become Panem, a TV-dominated dictatorship run from a city called the Capitol. The book is part of a trilogy, but stands on its own. We thought this might lead to some interesting discussion.