PRESS RELEASES
“LITERALLY SPEAKING” BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
ANNOUNCES 2006 SCHEDULE
~ First Program Features New York Times Bestseller The Kite Runner on Jan. 17th ~
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Buffalo , NY -- The Central Library's lunchtime book discussion group, “Literally Speaking,” has released its 2006 schedule. The group meets the third Tuesday of every month from 12:10 to 1 p.m. in the library's West Room. All are welcome, and participants are encouraged to bring their lunch or purchase a meal from Fables Café to enjoy during the conversation.
The first program will take place on Tuesday, January 17th and will feature the New York Times best-seller The Kite Runner, a 2003 fiction book written by Khaled Hosseini. This award-winning work is the coming-of-age story of two boys in pre-Soviet invasion Afghanistan. Narrated by the now-adult, Amir, the story describes the friendship between Amir and his servant, Hassan. At the center is Amir's betrayal of Hassan and how Amir recognizes this failure when he returns to his native land as an adult during the perilous rule of the Taliban.
Future selected titles include: Miracle at St. Anna (fiction, 2002) by James McBride on February 21st; The Birth of Venus (fiction, 2003) by Sarah Dunant on March 21st; Fahrenheit 451 (fiction, 1953) by Ray Bradbury on April 18th; The Last Days of Dogtown (fiction, 2005) by Anita Diamant on May 16th; The Glass Castle: A Memoir (nonfiction, 2005) by Jeanette Walls on June 20 th ; Stuck in Neutral (fiction, 2000) by Terry Trueman on July 18th; The Kalahari Typing School for Men (fiction, 2002) by Alexander McCall Smith on August 15th; Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (fiction, 2005) by Jonathan Safran Foer on September 19th; Burned Alive: A Victim of the Law of Men (nonfiction, 2004) by Souad on October 17th; and The Plot Against America (fiction, 2004) by Philip Roth on November 21st .
For a more information on these titles, visit www.buffalolib.org.