Have you always wanted to join a book club, but didn’t know how, or they all met at locations too far from your home?  Then this is for you!          

  Designed with an open format, the club will meet in the Community Room on the 2nd Thursday of every month at 1 p.m., and will include a variety of books—each one to be chosen by club members. Wanting the club to be more than simply reading and discussing, our hope is to invite authors, correlate crafts, and even compare a book’s movie if possible.  The February 9th book selection is The Reading Promise,  by Alice Ozma.  The March 8th book selection is How To Be An American Housewife, by Margaret Dilloway.  

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Check out the SD Public Library Foundation’s website   https://www.supportmylibrary.org/news/breakingnews/298 to see Holiday book recommendations for those on your Holiday gift list.  This list was compiled by San Diego’s Librarians.

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San Diego selects 2011 One Book Title:

Your online votes have been counted and the 2010 One Book, One San Diego selection is The Gangster We Are All Looking For by lê thi diem thúy.

Presented in partnership with KPBS, this program brings San Diego together to read and discuss the same book. Look for activities to start in early 2011.

This is a true-life novel about a Vietnamese refugee family in San Diego, told from the perspective of the family’s daughter, who is just six years old when they arrive. The narrator and her parents struggle to adapt to life in an unfamiliar land, while simultaneously dealing with a troubled marriage, a father’s mysterious past, and the loss of a brother, in this painful, magical, and poetic novel.

The author grew up in San Diego in the Linda Vista area and at one time wrote for the Union-Tribune.  “I look forward to taking the book back to the city where my life in America began,” she said. “It is especially meaningful to me that the San Diego Public libraries play such a large part in the One Book program.  It was in the public libraries of San Diego that I learned to love being in the company of books, and experienced both the consolation of words, and their power to challenge and transport.”

This article was reprinted from the San Diego Public Library Foundation website.  Go to  https://www.supportmylibrary.org  for more Foundation information and how you can support your local library.

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