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| Book Club |
THE ART LEAGUE BOOK GROUP
2007-2008
3RD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH AT 4:00 PM
November 15- Review by Stevie Wishnack
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
This latest novel by Cormac McCarthy, considered by many to be America’s finest living
author, achieved a rare distinction in 2007 – selected as the Pulitzer Prize winner and
an Oprah Book Club selection. McCarthy’s saga is dark and somber as it follows the
journey of a father and son in post-Apocalyptic America. Yet in a burned-out
landscape, the intense love between the two offers a profound statement of hope. This
small, spare work will inspire spirited discussions.
January 28 (Monday)- Presentation by Jean Steinshouer
One Book-Ocean Reef “An Afternoon in The Everglades”
Presented by The Art League Book Group and The Ocean Reef Historical Society
4:00 PM at The Cultural Center
Margery Stoneman Douglas, Voice of the River with John Rothchild
This beautiful autobiography is based on 200 hours of taped conversations
with the indomitable Ms. Douglas, considered Florida’s greatest defender of the
environment and an ardent feminist. Her life-long commitment to saving the Everglades
was lovingly detailed in her book, Everglades: River of Grass, published over forty
years ago.
February 21- Review by Dot Wurzelbacher
The River of Doub; Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candace Millard
After Roosevelt’s defeat in 1912, he embarked upon the most difficult physical
challenge in the world – the first descent of an unmapped Amazon tributary. In a
harrowing journey of unimaginable hardship, death, disease and drowning, Roosevelt
survived to change the map of the Western hemisphere. This is a powerful, page-
turning story of another dimension of the remarkable President with a penchant for
adventure.
March 20- Review by Phyllis Foster
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
This is a tale of remarkable humanitarianism in Taliban territory in Pakistan and
Afghanistan. Greg Mortenson, a mountaineer, who climbed in the area, returned and
has built over 55 schools, especially for girls. This is “proof that one ordinary person,
with the right combination of character and determination, really can change the world”.
(Tom Brokaw)
April 17- Reviewer TBA
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
The captivating voice of a young writer recounts, without rancor, but with love and
honesty, the eccentric, nomadic upbringing she and her three siblings endured and
survived. Walls is the daughter of a brilliant, alcoholic father and a frustrated artist
mother who could rationalize every disaster, once declaring, “being homeless is an
adventure”.
Jeremy Fitzgerald and Mary Welton Meredith
Co- Chairman
2007-2008
3RD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH AT 4:00 PM
November 15- Review by Stevie Wishnack
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
This latest novel by Cormac McCarthy, considered by many to be America’s finest living
author, achieved a rare distinction in 2007 – selected as the Pulitzer Prize winner and
an Oprah Book Club selection. McCarthy’s saga is dark and somber as it follows the
journey of a father and son in post-Apocalyptic America. Yet in a burned-out
landscape, the intense love between the two offers a profound statement of hope. This
small, spare work will inspire spirited discussions.
January 28 (Monday)- Presentation by Jean Steinshouer
One Book-Ocean Reef “An Afternoon in The Everglades”
Presented by The Art League Book Group and The Ocean Reef Historical Society
4:00 PM at The Cultural Center
Margery Stoneman Douglas, Voice of the River with John Rothchild
This beautiful autobiography is based on 200 hours of taped conversations
with the indomitable Ms. Douglas, considered Florida’s greatest defender of the
environment and an ardent feminist. Her life-long commitment to saving the Everglades
was lovingly detailed in her book, Everglades: River of Grass, published over forty
years ago.
February 21- Review by Dot Wurzelbacher
The River of Doub; Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candace Millard
After Roosevelt’s defeat in 1912, he embarked upon the most difficult physical
challenge in the world – the first descent of an unmapped Amazon tributary. In a
harrowing journey of unimaginable hardship, death, disease and drowning, Roosevelt
survived to change the map of the Western hemisphere. This is a powerful, page-
turning story of another dimension of the remarkable President with a penchant for
adventure.
March 20- Review by Phyllis Foster
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
This is a tale of remarkable humanitarianism in Taliban territory in Pakistan and
Afghanistan. Greg Mortenson, a mountaineer, who climbed in the area, returned and
has built over 55 schools, especially for girls. This is “proof that one ordinary person,
with the right combination of character and determination, really can change the world”.
(Tom Brokaw)
April 17- Reviewer TBA
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
The captivating voice of a young writer recounts, without rancor, but with love and
honesty, the eccentric, nomadic upbringing she and her three siblings endured and
survived. Walls is the daughter of a brilliant, alcoholic father and a frustrated artist
mother who could rationalize every disaster, once declaring, “being homeless is an
adventure”.
Jeremy Fitzgerald and Mary Welton Meredith
Co- Chairman
| 2007-2008 |
