Books We've Read
Mountain Communities Reading Group
Nonfiction:
- Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen. Great book, an "exposé" of the weaknesses and mendacity of high school history textbooks, and how they got that way.
- Civil Disobedience, by Henry Thoreau. The familiar essay provoked a lively discussion.
Fiction:
- When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple. A collection of stories and poems written by and about old women. Good stuff.
- Tortilla Curtain, by T. Coraghessan Boyle. An excellent look at the life of Mexican immigrants in Southern California, and the "Liberals" who come to hate them.
- Middlemarch, by George Eliot. The current selection, to be discussed 4/7/04.
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