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Concentric Reading CircleWe meet at 2:00 PM Mountain Time on the 3rd Sunday of each month to discuss our book selection. Dates sometimes change, and there will be an announcement on the board if there is a change.
Previous Book ChatsThe chat takes place on the message board in a chat room and we publish the transcripts on the message board. April 2009: The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd March 2009: Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson February 2009: Monster of Florence, by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi January 2009: The Book of Negroes, by Lawrence Hill November 30, 2008: The Dream of Scipio, by Iain Pears March 16, 2008: The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls February 17, 2008: Don't Let's Go To The Dogs Tonight, by Alexandra Fuller September 15, 2007: The Lady in the Palazzo, by Marlena de Blasi July 28, 2007: A Season with Verona: Travels Around Italy in Search of Illusion, National Character, and ... Goals!, by Tim Parks, paperback, Arcade Publishing, reprint edition 2003 May 26, 2007: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, by Mark Haddon, 2004 April 27, 2007: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, by John Berendt, 1999 March 31, 2007: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See February 24, 2007: War in Val d'Orcia, by Iris Origo January 28, 2007: The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón December 3, 2006: Simple Prayers, by Michael Golding October 22, 2006: The House on the Strand, by Daphne du Maurier, 1969 September 24, 2006: The Tender Bar, by J.R. Moehringer July 23, 2006: Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, Picador, 2003 June 4, 2006: Daughter of the Forest (The Sevenwaters Trilogy), by Juliet Marillier, Tor Books, 2002 April 30, 2006: Life of Pi, by Yann Martel March 26, 2006: Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, first published 1813, set in England February 26, 2006: The City of Falling Angels, by John Berendt, 2005, non fiction about Venice. January 22, 2006: All She Was Worth, by Miyuki Miyabe, translated from Japanese, set in Japan Message Board ThreadsColleen gets it started: Thread where Colleen proposes a book club. Chat Room Tips: How to use the chat room. Book club reading list: A list of books to help choose for the chats. Deborah names it: Thread where we named the book club - Concentric Reading Circle - CRC (like an airport code) - from our "concentric circles" travel theory. Pauline's desk at the March CRC - cat, copy of the novel,
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