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Sonoma County Book Festival, Saturday, September 20
the Literary Arts Guild will present another wonderful Book Festival and once again raise our flags on Courthouse Square to celebrate the literary arts.
For the past decade, the Sonoma County Book Festival has provided a free day of locally treasured and nationally recognized poets, novelists, essayists, reporters, children’s writers, aspiring writers, book group experts, publishers, bookstores, and other delightful and instructive displays on Old Courthouse Square in Santa Rosa. This year we are proud to continue this tradition of bringing the literary arts to the public connecting authors, readers, and publishers. Come and join us for a day of fun and inspiration.
For complete information, go to SoCo Book Festival website.
SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2 to 5 AT J.J. WILSON’S HOUSE
Our annual big party is over. We celebrated the Sitting Room’s 28th birthday and also of our 2009 publication, “Far From Home: Lessons Learned,” edited by that indefatigable traveler AND editor, Rosemary Manchester. Our entertainment was be readings by the authors in our new book. Refreshments included Barbara Shatto’s world class cakes and the innocuous but traditional Sitting Room punch.
Next year's theme was announded: Surprise! For information on submitting to this publication, go to 2010 publication specifics.
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BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
We meet 2-4 on the third Wednesday of every month, skipping December.
Here are the next books scheduled:
August 19: Magda Szabo The Good Earth, The Door. This is not in the County Library system, but multiple copies will be in the Sitting Room. Szabo is considered among the greatest Hungarian writers of the twentieth century, and widely translated, though not in English, alas. Learn about her at this
UK Guardian obituary.
September 16: Helene Cooper, The House at Sugar Beach. NYT journalist Cooper grew up in Liberia, daughter of an elite family that fled during the revolution. This non-fiction work has been praised for its blend of historical reporting and journalistic reporting within the framework of personal experience.
October 21: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun. We return to Africa, this time to a novel concerning Biafra's attempts for independence. It is an epic tale, about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race—and the ways in which love can complicate them all. Adichie has received key awards for her books, and divides her time between Nigeria and the U.S.
To receive reminders and updates of our meetings, please e-mail Joanne.
To see what the group has read to date, check our Book Club
Reading List.
MORE PARTY PHOTOGRAPHS!
Look at our wonderful food and guests at our 2008 Birthday Party.
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