Last Thursday Book Club
2009 Schedule  -  celebrating the bicentennial of Darwin's birth  ...

 
Meeting Date Host Selection Notes
Thursday 
29 January  2009
Dick Jensen
dickj43@yahoo.com

7120 Hawthorn Avenue, NE

797-4530
The Other
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008).  Lots of copies in the library.  It's a guy's book and I think will be quite controversial.
Thursday 
26 February  2009


  Don Tubesing

<>
41 La Puerta Trail
Placitas, NM 87043

505 771-1601
Tubesingda@aol.com



 





Thursday
26 March 2009
Tom Genoni  (292-4985)
1616 Catron SE

 The Heart ... [tbd]

   In my continuing (though oft times thwarted) efforts to bring a little class and culture to the Book Club, I offer this classic.  We have yet to read anything by Wilder.  The Library System has some 20 copies available.
Wilder populated his second novel (1927) with an interesting cast of characters.  The p
Thursday
  30 April 2009


  Ron B. 
... Loma Linda SE
Lead/Coal;
between Carlisle and Washington, take
Montclaire south




Reluctanct Mr. Darwin        Charles Darwin - 1858
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin
:
an intimate portrait of Charles Darwin and the making of his theory of evolution
by
David Quammen

The Library System has 5 copies available.  Order a used one now from campusi.com while they are cheap! 



  

Thursday

28 May 2009

 

Ken Gillen

(797-8956)

331 White Oaks Dr. NE

(From Tramway and Live Oak Rd [one block N. of Paseo del Norte], go EAST 0.6 mi on Live Oak, then SOUTH 0.3 mi on White Oaks Dr. to last house on right.  Pay no attention to most of the house numbers.).


The Poisonwood  Bible
by
Barbara Kingsolver
Poisonwood Bible
Visit this web site for Barbara Kingsolver, which contains:  Excerpt from the book;  Bio on Barbara;  reading group discussion questions.
Thursday 
25 June 2009
Jack Ferrell
17 Sunset Blvd
Placitas, NM
I-25 Exit 242
East on NM 165.

Right at the 5-mile marker onto Tunnel Springs Road.
Right onto Quail Meadow Road (first street on right - 0.2 mile)
Right onto Leah Lane (first street on right-0.4 mile)
HARD right onto Sunset Blvd
(100 yards)
17 Sunset Blvd is the third drive/house on the left. The 17 is in small gold numbers near the ground, near road.


Thursday, 
30 July 2009
Keith Gilbert (265-8122) 
 

913 Parkland Circle SE

From Wyoming, go West on Zuni to Carlisle;
Go South on Carlisle until the median disappears;
(or changes drastically);
Go East;
Keith is on this street, on the North side.



Thursday, 
  27 August 2009

Ed Duff
(823-1872)
Tanoan area:
9709 Pebble Beach NE


(Enter Tanoan onto Tanoan Drive,
north off Academy, between Eubank and Ventura.  Take 3rd left onto Pebble Beach Drive.
 2n
d house on right.)



Thursday 
24 September 2009
Rob Easterling (286-8796) 
East Mountains: 51 Avenida del Sol,
Cedar Crest, NM 87008
Take N14  4.5 mi. N of I-40
(exit 175, Cedar Crest).

Turn Left into Ventana del Sol subdivision.
  Follow

 keypad instructions.

 



Thursday 
  29 October 2009
 Joel Nash

884-5064

7508 Dellwood
Road NE

Between Candelaria
and Comanche


go West off
Pennsylvania;
2nd house from
Pennsylvania,
south side.








[3rd] Thursday: 
19 November 2009
[Thursday before Thanksgiving]

Charlie Palmer (243-4962) 

1506 Park SW

From I-25, go West on Central or
Lomas; then South on 14th St.  
Cross Central, continue 2 or 3 blocks,
then turn right onto Park (1st stop sign).






Thursday 
17 or 31 December 2009
[ before   Christmas?]

Mike Blackledge   (294-6030)
14321 Stalgren Ct NE

(from Tramway & Copper, go East 5 blocks [counting on right], then right on Parkside, immediate left onto Stalgren Ct.)

The Plague of Doves
by Louise Erdrich
or

Henry V

by William Shakespeare
"Some years before the turn of the last century, my great-uncle, one of the first Catholic priests of aboriginal blood, put the call out to his congregation, telling everyone to gather at St. Gabriel’s, wearing scapulars and holding missals. From that place, they would proceed to walk the fields in a long, sweeping row, and with each step loudly pray away the doves."
[continue the excerpt here]


... We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ...



Let's find a good annotated version - what does the Library hold?  Kindle?


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