The El Retiro Library Book Group

Talks About Great Books!

Meets first Tuesday of the month at 10:00a.m. begining in August 2010.

Just read the book prior to the meeting! 

	The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery September 7, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. The lives of fifty-four-year-old concierge Rene Michel and extremely bright, suicidal twelve-year-old Paloma Josse are transformed by the arrival of a new tenant, Kakuro Ozu.
	English Creek by Ivan Doig October 5, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. The events of summer, 1939, in Two Counties, Montana--the herding of sheep onto the summer range and the rodeo, picnic, and square dance on the Fourth of July counterpoint the coming of age of Jick McCaskell.
	Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland November 2, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. Chronicles the history of a painting and the lives with which it intersects, from the artist's inspiration to its admiration by two art scholars three hundred years later.
	The Ginger Tree by Osald Wynd December 7, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. Over a period of forty years, beginning in 1903, a Scottish woman marries a British military attache in Peking, becomes passionately involved with a Japanese military aristocrat, and proves herself to be an extremely successful businesswoman.