Manderino Library Book Club--November Selection

"He looked at her [Mma Ramotswe] in the darkness, at this woman who was everything to him--mother, Africa, wisdom, understanding, good things to eat, pumpkins, chicken, the smell of sweet cattle breath, the white sky across the endless, endless bush, and the giraffe that cried, giving its tears for women to daub on their baskets; O Botswana, my country, my place. Those were his thoughts. But how could he say any of that to her? Any time he tried to tell her what was in his heart, the words which came to him seemed so inadequate." Alexander McCall Smith's The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, p. 234.

The next meeting of the Manderino Library Book Club will be on Tuesday, November 15, 2005. The afternoon group will meet in library classroom #208 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., and the evening group will meet in the Curriculum Collection area from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Marsha Nolf, Public Services Coordinator, will be the discussion leader for both groups. We will be discussing Alexander McCall Smith's The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

Questions? Give Marsha a call or send her an e-mail message.

Marsha L. Nolf
Public Services Coordinator/Associate Professor
Louis L. Manderino Library
California University of Pennsylvania
250 University Avenue
California, PA 15419
724.938.4048
nolf@cup.edu

Manderino Library Book Club--October Selection

"No question about it, writing a history of the universe is a daunting task. Even in a thick book like this one, 478 pages long (not counting the endnotes), cramming in the 14 billion or so years since the Big Bang means that you have to cover, on average, nearly 30 million years per page. Bill Bryson, who brings considerable writing skills to the enterprise, has produced an intriguingly written book that shows both a sense of humor and a sense of adventure. A Short History of Nearly Everything is just a plain good read." Review by James S. Trefil, American Scientist, Jan.-Feb. 2004, v.92, p.81.
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Attention Fellow Readers:
The next meeting of the Manderino Library Book Club will be on Tuesday, October 18, 2005. The afternoon group will meet in library classroom #208 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., and the evening group will meet in the Curriculum Collection area from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Gregg Gould, Cal U Professor of Chemistry and Physics, will be the discussion leader for both groups.
We will be discussing Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Questions? Please contact Marsha Nolf.

Marsha L. Nolf
Public Services Coordinator/Associate Professor
Louis L. Manderino Library
California University of Pennsylvania
250 University Avenue
California, PA 15419
724.938.4048
nolf@cup.edu