The Bookclub Web Page Last updated 12/14/2008

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2009 Meetings
Date	Host(s)	Selector	Title	Author
01/10/2009	Leslie	Jana	Maltese Falcon	Dashiell Hammett
02/21/2009	Jackie & Dave	Jim	Interpreter of Maladies	Jhumpa Lahiri
03/xx/2009	Sue & Larry	Jackie
04/xx/2009	Susan C.	Leslie
05/xx/2009	Jana	Pat
06/xx/2009	Pat	Susan C.
07/xx/2009	Jan	Dave
08/xx/2009	Judy & Bob	Bob A.
09/xx/2009	Deanna	Larry
10/xx/2009	Maggie & Jim	Bob H.
11/xx/2009	Carol & Bob	Deanna
12/xx/2009	Jackie & Dave	Judy

• Larry's Blog

Maltese falcon was the dingus the book described. Clear moonlight lit the white hybrid at the keypad. It moved on, and we went to it's space, keyed the number, and drove through the gate. Talk was good, damn good, better have been good. Devilish v of lips parted and food moved in. Food on crackers, sweet, chypre, washed down with red and white wine, fruit too. Hard boiled detectives wore out shoe leather before Samuel Spade, but future generations of gumshoes nodded back to Mr. Spade. In the bookclub we have laid the paver to the foundation for future mysteries we read. Yeah, we'll read 'serious' fiction, and other stuff, but now we will be able to compare new reads to Hammett's book. There is a part which describes where the bird came from, which sounded like the best of Dan Brown's Templar history. Of course for this enthusiastic scholarly tale the teller of choice was Gutman, who searched for the falcon almost 2 decades before running upon SS in San Fran. After a bit of reminiscing about books discussed in the past we looked forward to new challenges: after next month we'll read Secret Knowledge of Water, by Craig Childs, selected by Pat at Larry and Sue's 3/28. And I picked Robert Crais' LA Requiem for September, since Leslie, and Jana agree it's a good read.(I copied Bob's web page because he said the website might go away. If it does I'll carry on here to keep a webpresence for us until something else develops.) One thing I was curious about was if Spade put the guns into the hall closet, why didn't the kid try to get them when he left?....