Who can come to Bulldog Book Club?
Anyone. We include students, faculty,
staff, and
local residents. If you want to talk with other people about
books,
please come. We meet in the Student Learning Center four times a month during the term.
For
specific times and days, look at the University
Library's News and Events page. Or email me for info, fteague@uga.edu
, and I'll
be glad to respond.
How formal
are you? Is there a
test on the
reading?
We are very informal, and you’re welcome whether you’ve finished
the book or not. You should signal others to avoid discussing the
ending
if you don’t want to have it spoiled. The discussion starts with
the question, “What did you think most interesting about the Book?”
and ends with the question, “What did we forget to talk about?”
What
do you read at Bulldog Book Club?
Here's what we have planned for Spring Term 2012, at Jittery
Joe’s in
the Miller Student Learning Center.
Each meeting is a blue card event.
Fran Teague leads two sessions on each book to fit varying class
schedules.
Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express. A millionaire lies dead, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.
One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer. 24 January or 1 February, 3:30 pm in Jittery Joe�s at the Miller Learning Center.
C. Chabris and D. Simons, The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us.
Six everyday illusions of perception and thought. 7 February and 15 February, 3:30 pm in Jittery Joe�s at the Miller Learning Center.h
Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth.
Milo comes home to enter a large tollbooth sitting in his room.
Joining forces with a watchdog named Tock, Milo begins a memorable journey.
21 February and 29 February, 3:30 pm in Jittery Joe�s at the Miller Learning Center.
Deborah Blum, Poisoners� Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York.
Solving murders changed with the first NY medical examiner. Gripping true story.
6 March and 21 March, 3:30 pm in Jittery Joe�s at the Miller Learning Center.
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides. In Detroit the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year.
27 March and 4 April, 3:30 pm in Jittery Joe�s at the Miller Learning Center.
Bram Stoker, Dracula The first great vampire novel. Jonathan Harker battles Count Dracula, who never sparkles.
10 April and 18 April, 3:30 pm in Jittery Joe�s at the Miller Learning Center.
Here’s the list for past
terms. And we
repeat title if folks asked us to do that.
Fall 2006
The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisburger
Lucky You, Carl Hiassen
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling
Pelican Brief, John Grisham
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
The Amulet of Samarkand,
Jonathan Stroud
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, Chuck Klosterman
Equal Rites, Terry Pratchett
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Spring 2007
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Universe, Douglas Adams
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
Good Omens, Terry Pratchett
and
Neil Gaiman
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,
J. K. Rowling
Fall
2007
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman
Treasure Island, Robert
Louis
Stevenson
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling
Spring
Term 2008
The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia
Marquez
The
Devil
in the White City:
Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America,
Erik Larson
Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers, Mary
Roach
Wise
Blood, Flannery O’Connor
Things Fall
Apart, Chinua
Achebe
Fall 2008
Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
E.
M. Forster, A Passage to India
Hunter
S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Stephen
Colbert I Am America—and So
Can You .
Charlotte Brontë,
Jane Eyre
Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima
Spring 2009
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
Edward Jones, The Known World
Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates
Allen Moore and Dave Gibbons,
Watchmen
J. K. Rowling, Tales of Beadle the
Bard
Fall 2009
Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
Junot
Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of
Oscar Wao
Jane
Austen, Pride and Prejudice with
Zombies
Neil Gaiman Graveyard Book
Oscar
Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture
Spring 2010
Neil Gaiman,
Coraline
Malcolm Gladwell,
Outliers
Douglas Adams,
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Arthur Conan Doyle, Hound
of the Baskervilles
Laurie King The
Beekeeper's Apprentice
Yann Martel The Life
of Pi
Fall 2010
Alice Walker, The Color Purple.
Homer Hickam, Rocket
Boys.
Mary Roach, Bonk.
Louis Sachar, Holes.
Stephanie Meyer, Twilight.
Khaled Hussein, The
Kite Runner
Who picks
these books?
Anyone who has attended a meeting is welcome to vote on the list of
suggested
titles at the end of each term. Then Dr. Teague counts the votes;
if
several are in a tie, she’ll choose the one that offers some balance
and
the most variety. But the top four or five titles are usually
clear
winners.
Where can I
find more info?
Here’s a
story
that appeared in Columns.
Here’s a piece
in Georgia magazine.
The Red
and Black has had a story as well.
And here's some more information courtesy of
the Red and Black.
Here’s how we began.