The WEKU Book Club


This Month's Book O the Clear Moment

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Previous Selections

Push by Sapphire (February 2010)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson (January 2010)
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano (November 2009)
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin(October2009)
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
Indecent Exposure by Tom Sharpe (August 2009)
The Forger's Spell by Edward Dolnick (July 2009)
I, Claudius by Robert Graves (June 2009)
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (May 2009)
Rumpole Misbehaves by John Mortimer (April 2009)
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (March 2009)
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman (Feb. 2009)
Piero Ferrucci's The Power of Kindness (Jan. 2009)
Cormac McCarthy's The Road (Nov. 2008)
W. Somerset Maugham The Razor's Edge (Sept. 2008)
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore (August 2008)
The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong (July 2008)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Husseini (June 2008)
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (May 2008)
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund (April 2008)
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin(March 2008)
Atonement by Ian McEwan (February 2008)

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O the Clear Moment

By Ed McClanahan

Mention the WEKU Book Club
and receive a 10% discount on this book at Joseph-Beth Booksellers

About the Book...

(from the author's website)

"Playful, self-deprecating and wickedly sharp, McClanahan's nine autobiographical short stories delve into youthful shenanigans and poignant first love in the late 1940s in Bracken County, Kentucky.
McClanahan has an enormously personable style, ambling back in time to his junior year at Maysville High School in Great Moments in Sports, when, mooning about the four Stonebreaker sisters like every other horny goat in town, he experienced his greatest moment of coolness and his greatest humiliation. In Dog Loves Ellie, a high- school reunion of his Class of '51 prompts the author to revisit magnificent, painful memories of his first major crush, Ellie Chadwick, who invited the gangly youth to the Sadie Hawkins dance and then dumped him for a less worthy suitor named Dog. Fondelle, or: The Whore with a Heart of God, the most sparkling of the collection, chronicles the author's early hitchhiking adventure the summer before his senior year in college. A former Merry Prankster, McClanahan muses on the writing life and classic Americana with giddy nostalgia and gently barbed humor.
--Starred Review in Publishers Weekly"

More about the author

.Join us for what's sure to be an engaging discussion on Tuesday, March 9th, at 6:30pm at Joseph-Beth Booksellers.

Tuesday, March 9th at 6:30pm in the Bronte Bistro of Joseph-Beth Booksellers at Lexington Green.

There are no tickets to purchase, no set menu price and reservations are not required. You may order whatever you like from the Bronte Bistro menu and pay your tab at the end of the evening.

Imagine an eclectic mix of people coming together for good food and stimulating conversation about a recently published book.

That's The WEKU Book Club experience. Each month, we'll announce the next Book Club selection. Then you can purchase a copy at Joseph-Beth and receive a 10% discount just by mentioning WEKU. Simply read the book and come to the next Book Club meeting.

After enjoying delicious food, we'll settle in for an hour of discussion about the story, its characters, the author and more. The Club will be led by members of the WEKU staff, invited guests and, occasionally, by the author of the selected book.

It's a wonderful evening of food, companionship and conversation you won't want to miss!

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