Book Discussion Groups
In category: Special Interest Groups.BIOGRAPHIES GROUP
Sue Rambow
BiographyBook@biwc.de
Wednesday, 1 February at 15.00
Join us to discuss Owen Matthews‘ Stalin‘s Children, the documentation of three generations in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, written by the son of a Russian woman and a Briton.
In April, we will discuss two of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia, and Leymah Gbowee, women‘s rights activist in Liberia. A copy of Sirleaf‘s book This Child Will be Great will be circulating in the group, and Gbowee‘s autobiography Mighty Be Our Powers may also be available.
New members are welcome.
►Venue: Sue‘s home
►Getting there: U2 Senefelder Platz, Tram M2 from Alexander Platz to Prenzlauer Allee/Metzer Straße
EVENING GROUP
Marion Marx
EveningBook@biwc.de
Monday, 6 February at 16.00
Our book for this month is In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson, the story of US Ambassador William Dodd and his family during their first year in Berlin. They arrived in 1933 when Hitler had just come into power. As Berliners, many are familiar with these events and this novel, based on real diaries of Larson‘s daughter and period research, gives a different perspective on the period.
New members are welcome to come join us for our discussion.
►Venue: Lois Mahsman‘s home
►Getting there: S1 to Sundgauerstraße and a short walk or Bus 124.
►Contact Lois for further information
Books for April and June will be determined by the group at this meeting
●Hold this date: Monday, 2 April
MORNING GROUP
Thora Hauswald
MorningBook@biwc.de
Wednesday, 7 March at 10.00
Our book for this month is The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver, which centers around the experiences of Harrison Shepherd, a character who records his story and observations in notebooks and diaries, starting as a teen in 1930‘s Mexico and continuing into the McCarthy era in the USA. New members are welcome to come join us for our discussion.
►Venue: Thora‘s home
►Getting there: S1 or S7 to Nikolassee and a 15 minute walk. Or Bus 118 and a short walk
Our book for May 2012 will be announced in the next NL.
●Hold this date: Wednesday, 2 May
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