PRESS RELEASES
"LITERALLY SPEAKING" BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
ANNOUNCES 2008 SCHEDULE
~ First Program Features PEN/Faulkner Award Winner Bel Canto on Jan. 15th ~
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Buffalo, NY -- The Central Library's lunchtime book discussion group, "Literally Speaking," has released its 2008 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 15th and will feature BEL Canto, a 2001 fiction book written by Ann Patchett. This PEN/Faulkner award-winning work, based on the Lima Crisis, is about a group of terrorists who hold high executives and people of high political standing hostage. It explores how the terrorists and hostages cope with living in a house together for several months.
Future selected titles include: To Kill A Mockingbird (fiction, 1960) by Harper Lee on February 19th; Self-Made Man: One Woman's Journey Into Manhood and Back Again (nonfiction, 2006) by Norah Vincent on March 18th; Yiddish Policemen's Union (fiction, 2007) by Michael Chabon on April 15th; Maus: A Survivor's Tale (nonfiction, 1986) by Art Spiegelman on May 20th; Poisonwood Bible (fiction, 1998) by Barbara Kingsolver on June 17th; Book Thief (young adult fiction, 2006) by Markus Zusak on July 15th; Rebecca (fiction, 1938) by Daphne Du Maurier on August 19th; A Thousand Splendid Suns (fiction, 2007) by Khaled Hosseini on September 16th; World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (fiction, 2006) by Max Brooks on October 21st; and The Road (fiction, 2006) by Cormac McCarthy on November 18th.
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