Everybody at the Imaging Short Course?

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There weren't a lot of suggestions for our next read. Sometimes that works out really well.

Our suggestions are:

Corduroy Mansions - an online novel Alexander McCall Smith

Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas

Vote for the book by Wednesday 5pm and don't forget to vote for the date:

book or e-book?
	Corduroy Mansions
	Funny in Farsi
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When shall we meet again?

So, we have two tasks: pick a date and pick a book.

E-mail WOVFAB-Book-Club@googlegroups.com with your suggestions by Friday, 5pm.

While you're at it, vote on our next meeting date:

Pick a date
	February 25
	March 11
	March 18
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Thoughts on Rebecca

Insert your review here!

WOVFAB goes to the movies

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We've talked about it for years, now let's give it a try, WOVFAB at the movies. Let's meet January 14 to watch one of these:

The Closet
Hotel Rwanda
Casablanca
Rebecca

Movie Night
	Closet
	Hotel Rwanda
	Casablanca
	Rebecca
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Polls close Monday at 5

Where Rainbows End aka Rosie Dunne

Chick Lit, pure and simple. The pink cover should be a sign....or a warning.


Alex and Rosie have been best friends, writing and e-mailing since childhood. For 40 years they write and e-mail, through med school, multiple bad marriages, kids, and divorces, always hinting at but never stating one's love of the other. Written in an interesting format, it grows old before the characters do. The plot drags on too long by far. But, all in all, a decent, light, escapist read for the holidays.

Voting for the disenfranchised

Here's an election even us foreigners can vote in! Polls close Monday 5pm. Next meeting Wednesday, December 3.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

Where Rainbows End by Cecelia Ahern

Saving Fish from Drowing by Amy Tan

The only poll that matters:
	Kavalier and Clay
	Rainbows End
	Saving Fish
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Under the Banner of Heaven

As we were reading this book, California was struggling with Prop. 8 which would ban same sex marriage. The arguement ran than it would be the death knell for traditional marriage, the union between a man and a woman. One man and one woman.

Meanwhile, the polygamous Mormon fundamentalist compound in Texas had just been raided. Hundreds of children were taken into custody and stories of abuse ran rampant in the media. How can the same book of scripture be used to justify monogamous and polygamous marriage?

Under the Banner of Heaven by John Krakauer tells the history of the Mormon church in America and now rapid world-wide spread. Essentially a get rich quick scheme and companion to the Bible, the Book of Mormon was written by Joseph Smith in the 1830s. Believers quickly came to trust Smith as the One True Prophet, with the power to control their lives down to the smallest detail, including who could marry whom. And how many wives one should have.

The death of Smith brought segmentation to the church. Believers who spoke directly with God felt they were best interpreters of the Lord's will and set up break-away sects. Krakauer tells in detail of their tenets of tax evasion, welfare fraud, plural marriage, incest, and murder.

A thoroughly researched, well-written and horrifying book.