Book Club on Zoom

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March 16, 2021 - 7:00 pm

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March 16, 2021 - 8:30 pm

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Our theme is literary non-fiction by women, though we have been known to read a novel or something by a man. Our meetings are informal and you are welcome even if you did not finish the book!

Some of our favorite books have included: Alex and Me, by Irene Pepperberg (a scientist writes about the amazing parrot she worked with for 28 years); Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi (an Iranian professor of English Literature writes about her experience of the Revolution and her belief in the importance of English literature); Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel (an illustrated autobiography, comic book style); Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (another “graphic novel” by another Iranian woman). We sometimes go on outings as well, including trips to see movies including “Julie and Julia” and “Hidden Figures.”

Email info@cpae.org to register for the link to join the Zoom workshop.

 

Books for 2021:

Jan 19 : The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard.

Feb 16:  The Yellow House, A Memoir, by Sarah M. Broom. 

Mar 16: The Other Madisons: the lost history of a president’s Black family, by Bettye Kearse (2020)  272 pp

April 20: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. 496 pp

May 18: The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine, by Janice P. Nimura    331 pp. 

June 15: Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, by Rebecca Wragg Sykes.  400 pages

July 20: In the Country of Women; A Memoir, by Susan Straight.  384 pp

Aug 17: Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings.   1001 pages

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