Alumni Book Club Upcoming Schedule

The Alumni Book Club will meet monthly. An additional book will be chosen at each meeting to add to the schedule. All alumni are welcome to attend the meetings and are requested to share their ideas on future books to review. We are also looking for volunteer moderators. Each attendee will be asked to pay $1 at each meeting to help defray the cost of refreshments.

Schedule of Events:

June 16, 2011 6:30 p.m.GSU Hall of Honors 

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is a rich story about secrets, ghosts, winter, books and family. The Thirteenth Tale is a book lover's book, with much of the action taking place in libraries and book stores, and the line between fact and fiction constantly blurred. It is hard to believe this is Setterfield's debut novel, for she makes the words come to life with such skill that some passages even give chills.

July 28, 20116:30 p.m.Location to be determined 

The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown is a masterstroke of storytelling—a deadly race through a real-world labyrinth of codes, secrets, and unseen truths all under the watchful eye of Brown's most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol accelerates through a startling landscape toward an unthinkable finale. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon believes he is here to give a lecture. He is wrong. Within minutes of his arrival, a shocking object is discovered. It is a gruesome invitation into an ancient world of hidden wisdom. All that was familiar is changed into a shadowy, mythical world in which Masonic secrets and never-before-seen revelations seem to be leading him to a single impossible and inconceivable truth.

August 25, 20116:30 p.m.Location to be determined 

The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy is an exquisitely written book of murder and obsession that takes the true details of the unsolved 1947 Elizabeth Short murder and creates a fictional story of a police detective determined to solve the case. The Black Dahlia is a page turning mystery novel, but it is also much more. Ellroy uses the story to delve into the dark recesses of the human psyche and force the reader to deal with obsession, evil, right and wrong.