Join us for our next Book Club meeting:  The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald When: Tuesday, May 20th @ 6:30 p.m. * * * * * * * According to Amazon.com: "In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.... And one fine morning--" Gatsby's rise to glory and eventual fall from grace becomes a kind of cautionary tale about the American Dream."

Here's a list of what we've already read in 2007-2008 and discussed:

April 2008: "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

March 2008: "People of the Book" by Geraldine Brooks

February 2008: "Escape" by Carolyn Jessop

January 2008: "The Glass Castle" by Jeanette Walls

November 2007: "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

October 2007: "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini 

September 2007: "The Nanny Diaries" by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus

August 2007: "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert