May Meeting: I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson

May Meeting info:
Date: Mon., May 17th
Time: 8pm
Place:Algiers Coffee House, 40 Brattle St. Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 492-1557

Book: I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson

Barnes & Noble Synopsis:
After two decades spent living in England, popular humorist Bill Bryson returned to the United States, his English wife and four children in tow. Much has changed here in the ol' U.S. of A. since Bryson left, and in I'm A Stranger Here Myself, he recounts, in hilarious fashion, his struggles to successfully repatriate himself. In this excerpt, Bryson compares and contrasts the U.S. Postal Service with Britain's Royal Mail.

Click HERE to read the New Rork Times Review

Mon. April 19, 2010; The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Date: Mon., April 19
(Presidents Day & date of the Boston Marathon.
However, traffic should be cleared by the time we meet.)
Time: 8pm
Place: Diesel Cafe, Davis Square, 257 Elm St., Somerville, MA 02144,
(617) 629-8717 www.diesel-cafe.com
Book: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Interesting articles:

"How one book ignited a culture war"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jan/11/salman-rushdie-satanic-verses

"Healthy Blasphemy: Dissenting Discourses in Rushdie and Bulgakov"
http://grlucas.net/1997/10/06/healthy-blasphemy-dissenting-discourses-in-rushdie-and-bulgakov/

Online study guides:

by Washington State U.:
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/anglophone/satanic_verses/

by eNotes:
http://www.enotes.com/satanic-verses