Updated April 20, 2012
Posted March 9, 2005

Ohio Avenue Book Shelf

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Denizens from Ohio Avenue, Talmadge Street and Dunning Street, plus a couple of former Ohio neighbors, have been meeting monthly since at least 2002, to discuss a selected tome.

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Coming up in 2012

  • For May 1: Sing Them Home: A Novel by Stephanie Kallos
  • Tiger's Wife by Tea Obreht; added by KF while reading library copy
  • Maybe This Could be the Place, but Vicki has to finish it first before recommending it.
  • The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

"Read" in 2012

  • January: book club eats out on January 3. Meeting at Ol' Fashioned at 6 p.m. for the vodka, then somewhere else for dinner. School is not in session that week.
  • February: Bound by Sally Gunning
  • March: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
  • April: Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman

2011

  • Their Eye's Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston for July 2011
  • Book club family night July 23
  • The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender for August 2011
  • Room by Emma Donoghue for September 2011
  • Night Sisters by Sara Rath for October 2011
  • November: Andre Agassi's autobiography, Open
  • December: In Zanesville by Jo Ann Beard -- Delayed to January.

What they've read