The Afternoon Book Discussion Club meets the second Monday of each month in the Sugar Bowl at 1:00pm to discuss the chosen title.
July 2011
July's selection is Another Season by Gene Stallings.
Description: University of Alabama football coach Gene Stallings reveals the ups and downs of managing life while raising a Downs' Syndrome son while pursuing his successful career.
June 2011
June's selection is Girls in Trucks by Katie Crouch.
Description: A Southern debutant moves to NYC, where she begins and ends a series of relationships before heading home to assist in a family crisis.
May 2011
May's selection is Little Heathens by Mildred Armstrong Kalish.
Description: This memoir discusses the ups and downs of rural life for three generations sharing a farm during the Great Depression.
April 2011
April's selection is First Degree by David Rosenfelt.
Description: Attorney Andy Carpenter is first confronted with potential client who claims to have killed a corrupt police officer and then has to find the truth when his girlfriend is the one charged with killing the cop.
March 2011
March's selection is Brimstone by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
Description: FBI Special Agent Pendergast reunites with police officers Vincent D'Agosta and Laura Hayward to solve the mystery surrounding the apparently occult death of an art critic.
February 2011
February's selection is The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls.
Description: Jeannette Walls recounts her unusual childhood, marked by periods of nomadic life on the road, parents with substance abuse problems, and poverty, and describes both how she "overcame" her past and how she came to accept it.
January 2011
January's selection is The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer.
Description: This memoir by celebrated journalist J.R. Moehringer looks at the challenges of a poor child seeking a father figure and finding comfort in his uncle's pub. Throughout the years, the young man returns again and again and experiences his own life at the bar.
Past Selections
December 2010:
The Paper Bag Christmas
by Kevin Alan Milne.
November 2010:
The Heretic's Daughter
by Kathleen Kent.
October
The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova.
September 2010:
Hollywood Station
by Joseph Wambaugh.
August 2010:
Olive Kitteridge
by Elizabeth Strout.
July 2010:
The Girls
by Lori Lansens.
June 2010:
5th Horseman
by James Patterson.
May 2010:
At First Sight
by Nicholas Sparks.
April's selection is Light on Snow
by Anita Shreve.
March 2010:
Dark Torment
by Karen Robards.
February 2010:
Best Kept Secrets
by Sandra Brown.
January 2010:
Elizabeth
by J. Randy Taraborrelli.
December 2009:
The Christmas Letters
by Bret Nicholaus.
November 2009:
Cage of Stars
by Jacquelyn Mitchard.
October 2009:
The Shack
by William Young.
September 2009:
Liberation
by Joanna Scott.
August 2009:
A Salty Piece of Land
by Jimmy Buffett.
July 2009:
Red River
by Lalita Tademy.
June 2009:
Stone Cold
by David Baldacci.
May 2009:
Dear John
by Nicholas Sparks.
April 2009:
Songbird
by Lisa Samson.
March 2009:
Plum Island
by Nelson DeMille.
February 2009:
Mirror Image
by Sandra Brown.
January 2009:
Forever
by Pete Hamill
December 2008:
A Wedding in December
by Anita Shreve.
November 2008:
The Pied Piper
by Ridley Pearson.
October 2008:
Honeymoon
by James Patterson
and Howard Roughan
September 2008:
Hour Game
by David Baldacci
August 2008:
An Inconvenient Wife
by Megan Chance
July 2008:
Pleading Guilty
by Scott Turow
June 2008:
The Great Husband Hunt
by Laurie Graham
May 2008:
Sweet Hush
by Deborah Smith
April 2008:
The Sunday Wife
by Cassandra King.
March 2008:
The Foretelling
by Alice Hoffman
February 2008:
The Beauty Bride
by Claire Delacroix.
January 2008:
A Sounding Brass
by Shelley Bates.
December 2007:
The Christmas Train
by David Baldacci.
November 2007:
The Last Time They Met
by Anita Shreve
October 2007:
The Closers
by Michael Connelly.
September 2007:
Carly
by Lyn Cote.
August 2007:
Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards.
July 2007:
4th of July
by James Patterson.