March Monthly Reads

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

March Book Displays

Memoirs, Letters & Diaries

A sampling of the books on display near the magazine section . . .

Meant to Be by Walter Anderson

A long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

American Girl by Mary Cantwell

Boy: Tales of Childhood by Roald Dahl

Things We Couldn't Say by Deit Eman

After a Long Silence by Helen Freemont

Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gelhorn

Act I by Moss Hart

Geisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki

Escape by Carolyn Jessop

A Walker in the City by Alfred Kazin

Russian Journal by Andrea Lee

West with the Night by Beryl Markham

Welcome Silence: My Triumph over Schizophrenia by Carol North

Silences by Tilly Olsen

Raising Lazarus by Robert Pensack

Closing Time by Joe Queenan

My War by Andy Rooney

Josser: Days and Nights in the Circus by Nell Stroud

Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas

My Own Country by Abraham Verghese

Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman

My Father, My Son by Elmo Zumwalt Jr.

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And a second display is located near the

Library entrance . . .

PLAN A TRIP

(or read about someone else's)

The Barrington Library has a wealth of current travel guides to help you plan every kind of trip: from local weekend getaways, to exotic overseas vacations, and everything in between. And for those who won’t be traveling anywhere, you can enjoy reading about a trip someone else has taken and written about. There is a selection of travel books highlighted for the month of March near the library’s main entrance.