Alumni Book Group: THE GREATER JOURNEY: AMERICANS IN PARIS

January 19, 2012: The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (2011), by David McCullough
moderator: Ellie Heginbotham

February 16, 2012: Madame Bovary (1855), by Gustave Flaubert (recommended edition: Penguin, translated by Geoffrey Wall. ISBN: 978-0-14-044912-9) and film versions
moderator: Joe Couch

March 15, 2012: Julius Caesar (1599), by William Shakespeare
moderators: Karen Nelson & Ted Simpson

April 19, 2012: Emily Dickinson, poetry & recent books about
moderator: to be determined

May 17, 2012: F. Scott Fitzgerald, short stories
moderator: Ted Simpson

June 21, 2012: mysteries (academic, Maryland)
(the group seems able to discuss this topic without an assigned moderator)

July: possibly, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century (2010) by George Friedman

August: "planning", or "argue about books"

Also suggested: Reading aloud from Moby Dick or any poet; Frederick Douglass; Proust; 100 Years of Solitude; Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years