Parent Resource Center - Watering the seeds of our community
Book Club
Welcome to the PRC bookclub. The bookclub meetings are held the 3rd Week of each month. This page has been set up as a reference for club members.
The meeting place is the Mi Ranchito restaurant on Manorhaven
Blvd, in Port Washington, at 8pm, unless otherwise noted.
Below is the schedule for the Spring of 2011.
Feb. 16th - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
Mar. 16th - The Cookbook Collector by
Allegra Goodman
Apr. 27th - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (note later date - 4th Wed. b/c of school break)
May 18th - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (w/ movie version to be screened at Marlene's home)
Jun. 15th - This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
We will meet at Mi Ranchito restaurant on Manorhaven Blvd. at 8:00 pm.
For more information, contact group leaders Marlene Munnelly or Marion Rosenbaum
Next Book
Wednesday, March 16, 2011The book will be The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman
In 1999, in the midst of the dot-com boom, two sisters take divergent paths to happiness. The pragmatic Emily, 28, is the CEO of Veritech, a data-storage startup in Silicon Valley; 23-year-old Jessamine, by contrast, is a whimsical Berkeley philosophy grad student who enjoys saving trees and working at an antiquarian bookstore owned by a retired Microsoft millionaire. Then Emily entrusts her boyfriend, the founder of a Boston-based tech firm, with a company secret as proof of her long-distance love. Soon, questions about social values, money, trust, and loyalty arise as the two sisters navigate their relationships and decide how they want to live their lives.
Books used for Past Meetings
Wednesday, March 16, 2011The book will be A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn is a novel by Betty Smith first published in 1943. It relates the coming-of-age story of its main character, Francie Nolan, and her Austrian/Irish-American family in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City. The novel is set in the first and second decades of the 20th century. The book was an immense success, a nationwide best-seller that was distributed to servicemen overseas.
