Chicago Chapter Book Club
About the Club
The Chicago Chapter of the IUAA has started a monthly book club. This is your chance to discuss a different fiction book each month and meet fellow IU alumni.
The club will meet at the end of each month to discuss each book selection. It will gather at the Bucktown/Wicker Park Branch Library, 1701 N. Milwaukee Ave., which is near the Damen Blue Line stop.
If you can’t meet for this month’s book club, you are welcome to join next time. Stay tuned for information about future books, but please contact Olivia Silver if you are interested so that we can get an idea of how big the club will be.
September 2008
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
This book will be turned into a major motion picture to come out this year.
According to Barnes & Noble, “It's the story of Frank and April Wheeler who mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not only each other, but their best selves, in the quest for something great.”
The club will meet at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 30.
June 2008
The Gathering by Anne Enright
According to Barnes & Noble, “As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, her distinctive intelligence
twists the world a fraction and gives it back to us in a new and unforgettable light.”
The club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 24.
May 2008
Then We Came To An End by Joshua Ferris
According to Barnes & Noble, every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is
family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent
coffee breaks.
The club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 27.
April 2008
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
According to Barnes & Noble, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, an adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course.
The club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 29.
March 2008
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
According to Barnes & Noble, this book is about a how a bond that grows among an unlikely trio is one of love and trust, and, ultimately, is their only hope for survival.
The club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 25.
February 2008
Bump by Diana Wagman
According to Barnes & Noble, this is a story of a trio of motorists and one policeman linked together by a tangled, life-altering web of
coincidence in the immediate aftermath of a three-car pile-up in Los Angeles.
January 2008
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Described by Barnes & Noble as "An impressive debut novel from a new voice in fiction, The Secret History tells of a small circle of
friends at an esteemed college in New England, whose studies in Classical Greek lead them to odd rituals, shocking behavior–and murder."