Happy New Year!!

 Happy New Year everyone. Wishing you all a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year (filled with many great hours of reading!)

January Meeting will be confirmed this weekend

 

Hi All,

Isn’t the weather dreadful today!

Just wanted to let you know I should have confirmation on the January meeting date this weekend. I’ll post as soon as I know. Hope you all have a great weekend!

Another note, you can comment on the posts; but I realized I have to “Ok” your comments before others can view them. And as for the, “sign-up to receive updates” still working on this. I’m new to blogging can anyone help (hint hint Chef’s Widow

~Between the Page Admin

February 2009 – Book #2 Devil in the White City

From Publishers Weekly

Not long after Jack the Ripper haunted the ill-lit streets of 1888 London, H.H. Holmes (born Herman Webster Mudgett) dispatched somewhere between 27 and 200 people, mostly single young women, in the churning new metropolis of Chicago; many of the murders occurred during (and exploited) the city’s finest moment, the World’s Fair of 1893. Larson’s breathtaking new history is a novelistic yet wholly factual account of the fair and the mass murderer who lurked within it. Bestselling author Larson (Isaac’s Storm) strikes a fine balance between the planning and execution of the vast fair and Holmes’s relentless, ghastly activities. The passages about Holmes are compelling and aptly claustrophobic; readers will be glad for the frequent escapes to the relative sanity of Holmes’s co-star, architect and fair overseer Daniel Hudson Burnham, who managed the thousands of workers and engineers who pulled the sprawling fair together 0n an astonishingly tight two-year schedule. A natural charlatan, Holmes exploited the inability of authorities to coordinate, creating a small commercial empire entirely on unpaid debts and constructing a personal cadaver-disposal system. This is, in effect, the nonfiction Alienist, or a sort of companion, which might be called Homicide, to Emile Durkheim’s Suicide. However, rather than anomie, Larson is most interested in industriousness and the new opportunities for mayhem afforded by the advent of widespread public anonymity. This book is everything popular history should be, meticulously recreating a rich, pre-automobile America on the cusp of modernity, in which the sale of “articulated” corpses was a semi-respectable trade and serial killers could go well-nigh unnoticed. 6 b&w photos, 1 map.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 

 

To obtain this book please visit your local library branch or to purchase this book http://www.amazon.com/Devil-White-City-Madness-Changed/dp/0375725601

January 2009 – Book #1 Meeting Location (tentative)

The tentative meeting location for January 2009, Book #1 Water for Elephants is La Chateau Wine Bar in Strongsville, OH at 7PM

La Chateau

12287 Pearl Road

Strongsville, OH 44136

440-846-8818

*** Subject to change, I will post again once confirmed ***

January 2009 – Book #1 Water for Elephants

From Publishers Weekly

With its spotlight on elephants, Gruen’s romantic page-turner hinges on the human-animal bonds that drove her debut and its sequel (Riding Lessons and Flying Changes)—but without the mass appeal that horses hold. The novel, told in flashback by nonagenarian Jacob Jankowski, recounts the wild and wonderful period he spent with the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth, a traveling circus he joined during the Great Depression. When 23-year-old Jankowski learns that his parents have been killed in a car crash, leaving him penniless, he drops out of Cornell veterinary school and parlays his expertise with animals into a job with the circus, where he cares for a menagerie of exotic creatures[...] He also falls in love with Marlena, one of the show’s star performers—a romance complicated by Marlena’s husband, the unbalanced, sadistic circus boss who beats both his wife and the animals Jankowski cares for. Despite her often clichéd prose and the predictability of the story’s ending, Gruen skillfully humanizes the midgets, drunks, rubes and freaks who populate her book. (May 26) 
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

 

To obtain this book please visit your local library branch or purchase the book here:

http://www.amazon.com/Water-Elephants-Novel-Sara-Gruen/dp/1565125606/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229023632&sr=1-1