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BookBalloon Announcing the November Reading Club selection:


The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver. Join
us -- Registration is free.
Discussion begins November 11.

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BookBalloon October Reading Club




The Aztec Treasure House by Evan S. Connell


The BookBalloon Reading club will follow its discussion of Mrs. Bridge
with a close look at Connell's masterful collection of essays, The Aztec
Treasure House. Join
us in October. Registration is free.

Discussion begins October 11.

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BookBalloon The Reading Club discussion of Mrs. Bridge has begun. Come join us!

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BookBalloon September is a month of celebration here at BookBalloon, with the publication of two new books from Forum members! Find out who and what at BookBalloon.

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BookBalloon September Reading Club

Mrs. Bridge: A Novel by Evan S. Connell

Mrs. Bridge was Connell's first novel. Gerald Shapiro writes of his encounter with this classic in Ploughshares:

While I was still in high school, I read Mrs. Bridge. It was Connell's first novel, still his most famous, and probably the one work against which his subsequent books have been measured....

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BookBalloon August Reading Club

Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen

From Amazon: "Atmospheric Disturbances is at once a moving love story, a dark comedy, a psychological thriller, and a deeply disturbing portrait of a fracturing mind. With tremendous compassion and dazzling literary sophistication, Rivka Galchen investigates the moment of crisis when you suddenly realize that t

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Sharon Harrigan
Sharon Harrigan
very interesting (weird, funny, clever) book my husband James and I just read; it's gotten glowing reviews
July 23 at 9:15am
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BookBalloon July Reading Club

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jonathan Yardley says, "It seems to me, though, that no American novel comes closer than Gatsby to surpassing literary artistry, and none tells us more about ourselves." Come learn about yourself with us at BookBalloon. Registration is free. Discussion starts July 11.

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