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I'll need some help piecing these titles into the calendar. As I recall we got a little feisty and skipped around some.

January at Sofitel
February at Sofitel
March at Sofitel
April -M Butterfly live at the Guthrie Theatre
May The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - at Sofitel
June - A Mercy / Toni Morrison / at Monte Carlo in Minneapolis

Hey Book Club friends, the Book Club aspect of Tambien is moving to its own Book Club blog home.

Here are the books for the next three months (and December will be the book exchange party)

16th September - at Susan's - The Outlander by Gil Adamson
21st October - at Roberta's - The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz - also in MNCAT under briefer title Long Walk -

18th November
at Anne's - The Shack by William P. Young or A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Other Suggestions:

Susan
The Craftsman by Richard Sennett
Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
Jennifer Johnson is Sick of Being Single by Heather Mcelhatton
Run by Ann Patchett

Roberta
The Road From Coorain by Jill Kerr Conway
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
The Rise and Fall of Alexandria by Justin Pollard

Kirsten
Something by A. J. Jacobs:
--The Year of Living Biblically
--The Know-it-all
--The Guinea
Pig Diaries

Anne
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Anything by Alexander McCall Smith (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and others)
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

For all of you avid book club blog readers (and lurkers):

August is at Roberta's and we're reading:

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

First, a trip to the local discount book place unearthed these delights:

--Little Lit: Folklore and Fairy Tale Funnies by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly
--Strange Stories for Strange Kids (Little Lit, Book 2) by Art Spiegelman

There are more Little Lit titles, including It Was a Dark and Silly Night, which I'm sorry was not on the shelf with the other two!

and I also found this:

Upon returning home, looking for something besides repeated clips of late pop stars, I came upon PBS/TPT's Bill Moyers Journal and his interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin ("The Shadow of Sirius"). Topics include language, his writing process, the natural world and his career. He made a comment about one poem that quoted his mother as saying "even when you do not know, you will know." "She never really said that, you know," he tells Moyers*.
I found one excerpt here.

*That echoed what Andre Aciman said about his memoir Out of Egypt. Aciman and other authors presented a panel discussion on memoirs at the U of M back in 2007. Watch him read from his book on MediaMill. At the panel he describes writing more than one version of the walk he took with his brother on their last evening in Egypt, and commented that in fact his mother wouldn't have let him/them out of the house. (Soxanne, did I get that right?)

Yes, indeed, Tambien has a new look - is anyone besides Anne and me looking?