Lauren John's Blog

• What I Got At Keplers That You Might Like--A Report from Book Group Night

  November 10, 2008

  • On Monday, November 3d, three Menlo Park Library book group members and I attended Book Group Night at Keplers independent bookstore in

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• Reading Obama

  November 6, 2008

  • Before he won the American presidency Barack Obama won a Grammy.

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• Reading Thanksgiving

  October 22, 2008

  • "Remember that as much has been given us, much will be expected from us...

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• Minding the Store: Reading for Fluctuating Markets

  September 18, 2008

  • Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe appeared in 1990.

    Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller was written in 1949      

    Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis came out in 1922 .

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• All Seasons Travel Books/What I Did Last Summer

  August 14, 2008

  • Come September, you will find yourself in a gathering where someone describes their summer vacation.

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• The elements of summer reading--blue skies, charmed lives, and location, location, location

  June 19, 2008

  • About ten years ago my father, Ed Fleishman, a professional New York club date musician, was in the Intensive Care unit of North Shore Hospital on Long Island following emergency heart surgery.

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• Must reading for the new graduate and the old parent

  May 22, 2008

  • In 2007, a lecture was given at Carnegie Mellon University by Randy Pausch, a 46-year-old professor, entrepreneur and family-man diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.

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• Reading for Voters

  March 23, 2008

  • If your book groups are like mine--you may find politics creeping into your discussions.

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• Reading While Biking

  January 16, 2008

  •  I get the most inquiries about book groups during the first week in January--a time of  resolutions for better minds and bodies. In the interest of improving both, here's what you can absorb

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• The All Seasons Book Group : reading for the times of your life

  January 11, 2008

  •  All Seasons Readers drive through the snow to get to book group, brush beach sand off  summer chick-lit and read paperbacks at the movies waiting for the film to start.

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