Events

Tauxemont Book Club

We have a book club that meets once a month to discuss a variety of books. The group meets on the last Wednesday of each month at 7:30pm. We have selected the following books for the 2008-2009 school year.

• August 2008: "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life" by Barbara Kingsolver
• September 2008: "The History of Love" by Nicole Krauss
• November 2008: "Twilight" by Stephanie Meyer
• Decebmer 2008: no book, stay tuned for details on our holiday dinner plans.
• January 2009: "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
• February: "A Spot of Bother" by Mark Haddon
• March: "Infidel" by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• April: "A Very Long Engagement" by Sebastien Japrisot
• May: "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga

The book club is open to all past and present members of Tauxemont Preschool. A love of reading and conversation is the only additional requirement. If you would like to be placed on our mailing list, please contact our Book Club Coordinator.

Previous books read by the Tauxemont Book Club...

1999
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 11/99
Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons 12/99

2000
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 01/00
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 02/00
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester 03/00
Ruby by Ann Hood 04/00
Somewhere Off the Coast of Maine by Ann Hood 04/00
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marqeuz 05/00
Midwives by Chris Bohjalian 06/00
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott 07/00
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 08/00
The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastain Faulks 09/00
10/00
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 12/00

2001
Trap for Cinderella by Sebastien Japrisot 01/01
Waiting by Ha Jin 01/01
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 02/01
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alverez 03/01
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Bubus III 04/01
Daughter of Fortune by Isabele Allende 05/01
Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier 06/01
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 07/01
Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter 08/01
The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama 09/01
The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde 10/01
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver 11/01

2002
Chocolat by Janne Harris 01/02
Bridget Jones Diary: A Novel by Helen Fielding 02/02
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 03/02
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck 04/02
Shopgirl by Steve Martin 06/02
Eleanor Rooselvelt Biography (Your Choice) 07/02
Ladies Auxilliary by Tova 08/02
One Hundred Years of Solitude by G G Marquez 09/02
Frankenstein by M. Shelly 10/02
A Widow for One Year by John Irving 11/02

2003
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod 01/03
Barefoot Heart by Elva Trevino Hart 02/03
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 03/03
The Hours by Michael Cunningham 04/03
A Walk in the Wood by Bill Bryson 05/03
Atonement by Ian McEwan 06/03
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund 07/03
08/03
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel 09/03
Life of Pi by Yann Martel 10/03
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 11/03

2004
Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo 01/04
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C.S. Lewis 02/04
The Last Girls by Lee Smith 03/04
The Gypsy Man by Robert Bausch 04/04
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi 05/04
Any book about Ben Franklin 06/04
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 07/04
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 08/04
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 09/04
Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov 10/04
Tender is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald 11/04

2005