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July 17, 2008

Reisterstown Readers book club

reisterstown%20readers%20edited.jpg This vibrant club, more than five years old, has a varied membership (including a nurse, social worker, teacher and accountant) and reading list. That includes classics, ethnic works and biographies, says Judith Anora, who organizes the book list in coordination with the local library. New members are embraced: They receive a welcoming brochure, bookmark and list of past books. Members also stay close by traveling together, to places such as Cape May.

Now reading: Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Liked a lot: The Known World by Edward P. Jones, The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, and Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.

Not so much: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Posted by Dave Rosenthal at 3:00 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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I have recently completed a book about my parents and siblings during the war and what happened after wards. Below is a brief summary:

Baby Boomers are getting older and our parents are slowly beginning to leave us. For many, issues of inheritance will be A fair and equitable event, but what would it be like if it wasn't? In Broken Birds, Channa, who was a Partisan fighter in World War II, and Nathan, a survivor of Dachau death camp meet, marry and have five children. When Channa dies, unexpectedly she doesn't leave the family house to husband of 54 years, but instead selects only one of our five children to give it to. The family is now led down the road to emotional destruction.
Broken Birds is a little Holocaust, a little sibling rivalry and a lot of family emotion.

If you are interested in seeing a sample chapter please see my blog:
http://jeannettesbrokenbirds.blogspot.com/2009/01/broken-birds-by-jeannette-katzir.html

Posted by: Jeannette | January 31, 2009 4:19 PM

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While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, Nancy Knight grew up reading nearly everything she could get her hands on, including a probably unhealthy amount of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, with the obligatory Jane Austen thrown in. She'll still read just about anything you put in front of her, especially the funny or weird. She lives in the city with her books, cat and drum set.

Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is an assistant managing editor and Sunday editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.