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Introduction

About the DePaul Emeritus Society

DePaul University values its ongoing connections with its faculty and staff retirees, as it values their past contributions to the university’s mission. The DePaul University Emeritus Society was founded in 2008 with the merger of the Staff Emeritus Society and the Emeritus Professors Association. The Society is sponsored by the University’s Office of Mission and Values.

The purpose of the DePaul Emeritus Society is to provide a means for ongoing connection, communication, and socialization between the university and its emeritus faculty and staff, and between individual retirees whose professional lives were for so many years dedicated to university service.

Photos, events, and information of interest to members of the DePaul Emeritus Society will be posted to this blog. Please take a look, add your comment, offer to be an "author" or just enjoy.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Book Club selects The Goldfinch

  • The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  • June 4th
  • Discussion starts at 1:30 pm
  • Richardson Library, Room 115
We are excited to announce our first book for discussion, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt.
At the meeting on April 1 we discussed the schedule and what we would choose for the first book.  After sharing some of our current reading as well our experiences (or not) with book clubs, we selected this title.  The Goldfinch is on several Best Books of 2013 lists.  For those not familiar with the book, you might want to read this review in the New York Times.
It is available in hardcover or electronically, but not yet as a paperback.

We decided to meet the first Wednesday of every other month, with the next meeting on June 4. Discussion will begin at 1:30 pm.  For anyone who would like to brown bag lunch prior to the discussion, the room will be available so we can eat and socialize before our book conversation.  The Richardson Library, Room 115, has been scheduled for all remaining meetings in 2014.

Those of us who met on April 1 considered other titles, among them Sue Monk Kidd's The Invention of Wings and Anna Quindlen's Still Life with Breadcrumbs as possible future books.  You may be interested
in reading those books, or have other suggestions.  Join us whenever your schedule permits for conversations about books and reading.  If you have any questions, please get in touch with Helen Marlborough or Kathryn DeGraff.

1 comment:

  1. I am about 160 pages into the book. I love how Donna Tartt "paints" the scenes with words like an artist paints the canvas with oils. Good selection.

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