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Tuesday
Oct182011

Love to read? We're starting a book club!

That's right, we're starting a book club!

Beginning in January (because spare time can be so difficult to find during the winter holidays), we will have a book club that meets at Books Inc in Alameda!

Right now we are in the process of picking the first book so please cast your vote! The choices are:

 

Turn of Mind, by Alice LaPlante

According to The New York Times Book Review: "To call Turn of Mind a thriller - or a chronicle of illness, or a saga of friendship for that matter - would confine it to a genre it transcends. This is a portrait of an unstable mind, an expansive, expertly wrought imaging of memory's failures and potential...In LaPlante's vivid prose, [Dr. White's] waning mind proves a prism instead of a prison, her memory refracted to rich, sensual effect. There are moments of steely, surgical calm, the language tight and fractured...and there are moments of blooming, antic poetry...LaPlante has imagined a lunatic landscape well. The twists and turns of mind this novel charts are haunting and original." 

 

 

 OR

What Color is Your Parachute? For Retirement Planning a Prosperous, Healthy and Happy Future, by John E. Nelson & Richard N. Bolles

Mark Miller, at RetirementRevised.com says "It's one of the most thoughtful, engaging retirement planning books available because it lays out a specific, valuable planning model called the Retirement Well-Being Model."

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you would like to join the book club, have books you would like to recommend, or would consider volunteering to lead the book club please call Cheryl or Hannah at 510-217-8527.

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