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The May meeting is Wednesday, May 20, 7pm.

The selection is "Strangers on a Train" by Patricia Highsmith.

Elizabeth Holloway
350 Bleecker Street (between Charles and 10th Streets)
Apt 6E (ring buzzer no. 35 if doorman is on break)
212-645-2737

The June selection is "Reading the OED" by Ammon Shea
The July selection is "The Teahouse Fire", by Ellis Avery (BMC class of '93)
The August selection is "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic
Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! " by Jane
Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

Previous selections:
April 2009: "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
March 2009: "Matrimony" by Joshua Henkin (son of Alice Hartman Henkin, BMC Class of 1954)
February 2009: "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi
January 2009: "Bride Island" by Alexandra Enders (BMC Class of 1986)
December 2008: "An Uncommon Reader" by Alan Bennett
November 2008: "Jitterbug Perfume" by Tom Robbins.
October 2008: 'Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
September 2008: "The Thorn Birds" by Colleen McCullough
August 2008: No meeting
July 2008: 3 stories by Jorge Luis Borges
The Library of Babel:
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html
The Circular Ruins: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jatill/175/CircularRuins.htm
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote:
http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/borges-quixote.html
June 2008: "What is the What" by Dave Eggers
May 2008: "Beowulf" (Seamus Heaney translation)
April 2008: "Zuleika Dobson" by Max Beerbohm
March 2008: "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
February 2008:"Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry
January 2008:"Las Grand Meanles" by Alain Fournier
December 2007: "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
November 2007: "Prep" by Curtis Sittenfeld
October 2007: No meeting
September 2007: "The Sweet Science" by A.J. Leibling
August 2007: 'Forever Amber' by Kathleen Winsor
July 2007: 'Oracle Bones' by Peter Hessler
June 2007: 'Haroun and the Sea Stories' by Salman Rushdie
May 2007: "His Majesty's Dragon" by Naomi Novik
April 2007: no meeting
March 2007: "Case Histories" by Kate Atkinson
February 2007: "The Lake, the River & the Other Lake" by Steve Amick
January 2007: "The Clumsiest People in Europe: Or, Mrs.
Mortimer's Bad-Tempered Guide to the Victorian World" by Todd Pruzan
and Favell Lee Mortimer
December 2006: no meeting
November 2006: "Lords of Poverty" by Graham Hancock
October 2006: "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol
September 2006: 'The Known World: A Novel' by Edward P. Jones
August 2006: 'Snow Flower and the Secret Fan' by Lisa See
July 2006: 'The Intuitionist' by Colson Whitehead
June 2006: 'The Plot Against America' by Philip Roth
May 2006: 'I Claudius' by Robert Graves
April 2006: 'Appointment in Samarra' by John O'Hara
March 2006: 'The Chronicles of Narnia' (all 7 books) by C.S. Lewis
February 2006: 'Father Joe: the man who saved my soul' by Tony Hendra
January 2006: "The Hungry Tide" by Amitav Ghosh
December 2005: 'Heartburn' by Nora Ephron
November 2005: 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini
October 2005: no meeting
September 2005: "Lady Oracle" by Margaret Atwood
July 2005: "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams
June 2005: "Riding the Bus with My Sister" by Rachel Simon, BMC '81
May 2005: "Train" by Pete Dexter
April 2005: "Mountains beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder
March 2005: "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
February 2005: “The Power of One,” by Bryce Courtenay
January 2005: "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood" by Alexandra Fuller
December 2004: "Farenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
November 2004: "The Graduate" by Charles Webb
October 2004:"The Shooting Gallery" by Joseph Trigoboff
September 2004: "Random Family" by Adrian Nicole Leblanc
August 2004: "Paradise Alley" by Kevin Baker