[NFBV-Potomac-Announce] FW: Cleaned up a bit

Thu Feb 27 16:47:30 UTC 2025

Hello,

Leroy has edited what he sent to me and I released yesterday. See below.

From: LeRoy Hansen <leroy.t.hansen at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 9:54 PM
To: John Halverson <jwh100 at outlook.com>
Subject: Cleaned up a bit

Hi John. I am sorry for having sent so much trash with my book suggestions. Below you will find your email with much of the trash I unintentionally had sent before deleted. I don't know whether this version is worth circulating but I thought I would send it to you to use as you see fit. LeRoy

The Potomac Chapter book club will meet on Wednesday March 5, 7:00 PM on Zoom.

As a reminder, the book to  be discussed is the Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez

We need to meet to discuss April, May, and June books. Let me know if you have additional book candidates.

I suggest a meeting at 4:00 PM March 2 if I can get our Zoom.

Some recommendations below.

John

Bonnie O'Day made two recommendations below.

Butcher's Crossing, by John Williams
1870s. After hearing Ralph Waldo Emerson speak, Will Andrews drops out of Harvard and heads west to "find himself." He funds a hunt that spirals into the slaughter of thousands of buffalo. Andrews returns from the expedition questioning both his actions and the value of his experience.
Comment: I would never have picked this book but someone in our book club wanted to read it. The subject was tough for me to get behind and I had to skip the "buffalo slaughter" parts, but the book was fast paced and pretty interesting. The myths about the west were dispelled in this book.

The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride
The book takes place in Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe.
Comment: I love all of James McBride's books. This one was particularly compelling to me because it describes the situation of a deaf child who is institutionalized against everyone in the community's will. It also depicts the lives of several members of the Chicken Hill community, the down and out as well as the prosperous. Lots of humor as well as pathos.

More recommendations from Leroy.

The first recommendation, the Kite Runner, was  discussed several years ago.

David Copperfield

Author: Charles Dickens<https://www.audiobooksnow.com/author/Charles%20Dickens/>

Narrator: Ralph Cosham<https://www.audiobooksnow.com/narrator/Ralph%20Cosham/>

Unabridged: 33 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.<https://www.audiobooksnow.com/publisher/Blackstone%20Audio,%20Inc./>

Published: 04/19/2012

Categories: Fiction<https://www.audiobooksnow.com/discover/fiction/>, Classic<https://www.audiobooksnow.com/browse/classic/>

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Synopsis
David Copperfieldis the timeless tale of a thoughtful orphan discovering how to live and love in a cutthroat, indifferent adult world. It firmly embraces all the eternal freshness, the comic delights, the tender warmth, and the ghastly horrors of childhood. Of all Charles Dickens novels, this is perhaps the most revealing, both of Dickens himself and of the society of his time. Certainly Copperfields experienceshis early rejection, child labor in a warehouse, experience as a journalist, and final success as a novelistare strikingly similar to Dickens own. It is little wonder that Dickens said of it, Of all my books I like this the bestLike many fond parents I have in my heart of hearts a favorite child. And his name is David Copperfield.

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Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Wally Lamb and the Women of York Correctional Institution.

n a stunning work of insight and hope, New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb once again reveals his unmatched talent for finding humanity in the lost and lonely and celebrates the transforming power of the written word.

For several years, Lamb has taught writing to a group of women prisoners at York Correctional Institution in Connecticut. In this unforgettable collection, the women of York describe in their own words how they were imprisoned by abuse, rejection, and their own self-destructive impulses long before they entered the criminal justice system. Yet these are powerful stories of hope and healing, told by writers who have left victimhood behind.
In his moving introduction, Lamb describes the incredible journey of expression and self-awareness the women took through their writing and shares how they challenged him as a teacher and as a fellow author. Couldn't Keep It to Myself is a true testament to the process of finding oneself and working toward a better day.
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