Book Discussion Groups
led by Neil Schulhoff
Neil
Schulhoff has been involved with the Boca Raton literary community for more than
18 years. He managed and was Book Buyer for four independent bookstores and for
Borders before happily (his words) joining the Library staff. He worked with
local educators on their choice of classroom reading material, and selected
appropriate books for local book clubs. Neil hopes to work with the Friends Book
Discussion Group in finding a diverse selection of books with a depth of
substance conducive to literary discussion. Please join us in what will surely
be an enlightening and fun discussion. Both Groups meet in the Youth
Services Section. Refreshments will be served.
FICTION GROUP
Meets on Tuesdays at 12:00 noon
Sandcastle
by Iris Murdoch
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Flaubert's Parrot
by Julian Barnes
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Kafka on the Shore
by Haruki Murakami
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
The Virgin in the Garden
by A. S. Byatt
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Rings of Saturn
by Winfried Georg Sebald
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
Seven Sisters
by Margaret Drabble
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Past Titles
2004
Good Apprentice by Iris Murdoch
Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
V. by Thomas Pynchon
Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tender is the Night by F. Scott FitzGerald
Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Atonement by Ian McEwan
2003
A Fairly Honourable Defeat by Iris Murdoch
When We Were Orphans by Kazou Ishiguro
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth
Dolly by Anita Brookner
Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Betrayal by Harold Pinter
The Innocent by Ian McEwan
Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemmingway
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Shuttlecock by Graham Swift
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
NONFICTION GROUP
Meets on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m.
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living, 1900-1939
by Virginia Nicholson
Thursday, June 23, 2005
February House
by Sherrill Tippins
Thursday, May 26, 2005
The Rare and the Beautiful: The Art, Loves and Lives of the Garman Sisters
by Cressida Connolly
Thursday, April 28, 2005
Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby
by Geoffrey Wolff
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
by Amanda Foreman
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Anne Sexton: A Biography
by Diane Wood Middlebrook
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Past Titles
2004
Mark Rothko: A Biography by James E. B. Breslin
Haunts of the Black Masseur: The Swimmer as Hero by Charles Sprawson
The Sitwells: A Family Biography by John Pearson
Making the Mummies Dance by Thomas Hoving
Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired by Francine Prose
Her Husband: Hughes and Plath--a Marriage by Diane Middlebrook
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) by Stacy Schiff
Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford
2003
Dangerous Muse: The Life of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy Schoenberger
Last of the Duchess by Caroline Blackwood
Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on this Planet by Katherine Clark
Everybody Was So Young: Gerald Murphy & Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love
Story
by Amanda Vaill
Living Well is the Best Revenge by Calvin Tomkins
With Chatwin: Portrait of a Writer by Susannah Clapp
Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, & Douglas Cooper by John Richardson
D.V. by Diana Vreeland
The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
Elegy for Iris by John Bayley
For more information contact the Boca Public Library
http://www.bocalibraryfriends.org/bkdiscussion.htm
