November Book Club
The November 14 (second Tuesday) Book Club meeting will be hosted by Eli Kaufman. Eli has chosen a humorous nonfiction book, Buffalo Gal: a Memoir by Laura Pedersen. “A wonderful memoir about growing up in Buffalo in the 70s and 80s. ” – from Goodreads. There are many copies of this book in the county library system. Please contact Celinda Crego (cac432@aol.com) for …
February Book Club
Cuddle up this February with a good read and gather to discuss on February 13th. Host Terri Zelasko has selected Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild. "The renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country―a stronghold of the conservative right. …
March Book Club
Save the Date! Book club will meet on March 20th, discussing a David Grann's non-fiction work Killers of the Flower Moon. Contact Celinda Crego '79 at cac432@aol.com to learn more.
April Book Club
Save the Date! Book club will meet April 17th at the home of Catherine March '14 to discuss The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diaz (Cornell MFA '95). Diaz will be in Buffalo on April 20th giving a lecture on the novel as part of the Just Buffalo BABEL series. More information and …
June Book Club
The June 12 Book Club selection is "If You Were Here" by Jen Lancaster, at the home of Celinda Crego. This book is a humorous novel about buying and remodeling a house and is the fiction debut of the New York Times bestselling author of My Fair Lazy. There are many copies of this book in the Erie County library system. …
July Book Club
The July 10 Book Club will be hosted by Jen Friedman. Jen has selected "Born a Crime" by Trevor Noah. This nonfiction book is written by the host of The Daily Show. " compelling new memoir. . . . By turns alarming, sad and funny, book provides a harrowing look, through the prism of Mr. Noah's family, at life …
September Book Club
The September 4th ( 1st Tuesday, the day after Labor Day) Cornell Club Book Club Meeting will be hosted by Eli Kaufman. Eli has chosen the book Grandfather Stories by Samuel Hopkins Adams. From Wikipedia: "Grandfather Stories is a book of 23 historical tales by journalist and novelist Samuel Hopkins Adams. Three were originally published in Woman's Day and 15 in The New …
October Book Club
Our October Book Club meeting will be held on October 9 (2nd Tuesday) at the home of Rick Greenberg. Rick has chosen the graphic novel, Fun Home: a FamilyTragicomic by Alison Bechdel. This book is a QUICK read. From Amazon: "A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral …
November Book Club
November Book Club will meet at the home of Celinda Crego '79. Celinda has selected the book, Orphan Train by Christina Kline. This is a novel based on actual orphan trains that carried orphans to the Midwest. "Foster teen Molly is performing community-service work for elderly widow Vivian, and as they go through Vivian’s cluttered attic, they discover …
January Book Club
January Book Club will be hosted by Catherine March '14 and Matthew Nagowski '05. They have selected Everything I Never Told You, the debut novel of Celeste Ng. From the Los Angeles Times: “Excellent…an accomplished debut… heart-wrenching…Ng deftly pulls together the strands of this complex, multigenerational novel. Everything I Never Told You is an engaging work that casts a …