The Ellis
Neighborhood Book Group meets the third Wednesday of each month at
7PM at the YWCA Residences at 40 Berkeley Street for an hour-long
discussion. Book selections range from literary and popular fiction
to biography, drama, short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Contact
Betsy Boveroux (617-426-0989) or Trudi Kondoff (617-482-4141) or send email to
Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence
368 pages. (The return of beautiful Countess Olenska attracts Newland Archer, about to announce his engagement to a pretty ingénue.)
October 17th ―
David Quammen, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, 253 pages. (A post “Beagle” bio written with clarity, brevity and colorful anecdotes.)
November 21st ―
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, 143 pages. (Imaginary author’s diary while in prison and his thoughts on existence, morality and society. Second fragment explores actual events in his life.)
December ―
No meeting in December. Have a Happy Holiday and join us in January!
January 16th ―
Mark Haddon, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, 240 pages. (Debut novel/who-done-it as told by an autistic 15 year old detective. Funny, too.)
February 20th ―
Cormac McCarthy, The Road, 241 pages. (A father and son fight their way through a post apocalyptic world reduced to ashes and ruin.)
March 19th ―
Irene Nemirovsky, Suite Francaise, 395 pages. (Two novellas: the second a factual account of the origins of the first. Materials recently found by the daughter of the author, who died in Auschwitz.)
April 16th ―
Poetry Month. Members are encouraged to bring a poem to share with the group.
May 21st ―
Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
June 18th ―
Allen Shawn, Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life, 288 pages. (Autobiography by the composer/professor son of legendary “The New Yorker” editor William Shawn and the brother of actor Wallace Shawn.)
