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Spring Bulldog Book Club selections

If you like to read a book for pleasure and talk about it with others . . .
If you like to enjoy a blue card event with little fuss or bother . . .
If you just like visiting libraries . . .

here are the Spring 2007 Bulldog Bookclub Selections:

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe, Douglas Adams
January 16, Tuesday, 3:30-4:30, Jittery Joe’s, Student Learning Center
January 24, Wednesday, 1:25-2:25, Student Lounge Main Library

Join Douglas Adams’s hapless hero Arthur Dent as he travels the galaxy with his intrepid pal Ford Prefect, getting into horrible messes and generally wreaking hilarious havoc.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
January 30, Tuesday, 3:30-4:30, Jittery Joe’s, SLC
February 7, Wednesday, 1:25-2:25, Student Lounge Main Library

Holly Golightly, charming and attractive, abandons the people who love her. But what of her new relationship, with the novel’s narrator?

Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
February 13, 3:30-4:30, Jittery Joe’s, SLC
February 21, Wednesday, 1:25-2:25, Student Lounge Main Library

When a scatterbrained Satanist nun goofs up a baby-switching scheme and delivers the infant Antichrist to the wrong couple, it’s just the beginning of the comic errors in the divine plan for Armageddon.

The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
February 27, 3:30-4:30, Jittery Joe’s, SLC
March 7, Wednesday, 1:25-2:25, Student Lounge Main Library

“Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do,” writes Malcolm Gladwell. Hushpuppies, teen suicide, and Paul Revere all get covered!

Dracula, Bram Stoker
March 20, 3:30-4:30, Jittery Joe’s, SLC
March 28, Wednesday, 1:25-2:25, Student Lounge Main Library

From Transylvania comes Count Dracula in search of new, fresh blood. Unexplained disasters begin to occur in the streets of London before the mystery and the evil doer are finally put to rest.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J.K. Rowling
April 3, 3:30-4:30, Jittery Joe’s, SLC
April 11, Wednesday, 1:25-2:25, Student Lounge Main Library

Harry’s fifth year brings romance, an unexpected death, and equally unexpected allies in the battle against Voldemort.

All Bulldog Book Club meetings are blue card events.