Category Archives: Around the World Virtual Book Club
Eat, Pray, Love Virtual Book Discussion
Eat, Pray, Love: One Women’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert. Published in 2006. Synopsis: In her mid-thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert finds herself recently divorced, severely depressed, and not getting what she wants out of life. A … Continue reading
The Almost Moon Virtual Book Discussion
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold. Published in 2007. Synopsis: While caring for her aging mother, Helen Knightly impulsively decides to smother her to death. The novel is played out over the next 24 hours following the murder, while at … Continue reading
A Thousand Splendid Suns Virtual Book Discussion
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2007. Synopsis: This novel is the epic story of Mariam, an uneducated woman born out of wedlock in 1960s Afghanistan, and Laila, a well-educated woman from a progressive family born on the eve … Continue reading
Silent Spring Virtual Book Discussion
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Published in 1962. Synopsis: Written nearly 50 years ago, Rachel Carson’s well-researched thesis on the mortal dangers of DDT and other pesticides in large-part spawned the modern-day environmental movement. In this book, Carson elaborately explains the … Continue reading
Some Girls Virtual Book Discussion
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren. Published in 2010. Synopsis: Jillian Lauren was barely eighteen and an NYU dropout with a not-as-glamorous-as-planned semi-career blooming as an actress/stripper/call girl. At a ‘casting call’ she is offered the opportunity to … Continue reading
Becky A. Johnson 