Suggestions from the March 7, 2011 Gathering"ON FREEDOM AND GOING FORTH INTO THE WORLD"
FICTION:
FOD The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden. Group members also recommended a 2006 film by the same name, starring Forest Whitaker
FRA Freedom and The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
GAS North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Other Elizabeth Gaskell novels at the Barrington Public Library include: Cranford, Ruth and Wives and Daughters
MOO A Gate at the Stairs: a novel by Lorrie Moore. Other Lorrie Moore titles at the Barrington Public Library include: Anagrams: a novel; Birds of America: Stories; Like Life: Stories; Self-help: Stories, and, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?: a novel
MOS The Winter Ghosts and Labyrinth by Kate Mosse
PAA The Year of the Hare: a novel by Arto Paasilinna
TOI The Master: a novel and Brooklyn: a novel by Colm Tóibín. Other novels and collections of stories by Tóibín at the BPL include: The Backwater Lightship; The Empty Family: Stories; The Heather Blazing; Mothers and Sons: Stories; The Story of the Night: a novel
WIL The Writing Class by Jincy Willett
NONFICTION:
155.9 JOH Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson
792.8 HOM Apollo's Angels: A History of Ballet by Jennifer Homans
811.4 DIC Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson
811.4 DIC The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson, edited by R.W. Franklin
811.54/BER The Collected Poems of Wendell Berry, 1957-1982 by Wendell Berry
818.5 KAZ A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin
818.54/BER Home Economics: Fourteen Essays by Wendell Berry
B DUMAS Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad by Firoozeh Dumas
B FEYNMAN "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman": Adventures of a Curious Character and What do you care what other people think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
B JUDT The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
B LEE Chasing Hepburn: A Memoir of Shanghai, Hollywood, and a Chinese Family's Fight for Freedom by Gus Lee
OTHER READER’S ADVISORY RESOURCES RECOMMENDED BY THE GROUP:
~ BOOK TV
~ C-SPAN
~ New York Review of Books
~ Washington Independent Review of Books