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DISCUSSION GROUPS<br />
The Thursday Morning Book Club<br />
We’ll read and discuss these books selected by the club members.<br />
Some questions to consider might be: How well has the author<br />
made his/her point? What surprised you about a character or the<br />
ending? How does the story relate to today’s ideas and lifestyles?<br />
Bring you own beverage; members provide snacks.<br />
September 7<br />
Two for the Dough, by Janet Evanovich<br />
Stephanie Plum, bounty hunter, has been assigned to capture<br />
Kenny Mancuso. Missing caskets from a funeral home are<br />
connected with ammo Kenny is suspected of stealing from the<br />
army. The plot escalates when Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur is<br />
kidnapped. Stephanie tracks him down, a fight ensues.<br />
October 5<br />
In This Grave Hour, by Jaqueline Winspear<br />
As Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts Britain’s<br />
declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent<br />
breaks into Maisie Dobbs’ flat with an urgent assignment: find the<br />
killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium during the Great<br />
War. Within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered.<br />
As Maisie delves deeper into the killings, a new kind of refugee<br />
appears in her life: a little girl who does not, or cannot, speak.<br />
November 2<br />
Southland, by Nina Revoyr<br />
Jackie Ishida is in her last semester of law school when her<br />
grandfather dies. Frank Sakai was a WW II veteran who many years<br />
before had owned a grocery store in the Crenshaw District, now<br />
the heart of L.A.’s black community. While trying to fulfill a request<br />
from his will, Jackie discovers that four black teenagers were killed<br />
in the store during the Watts Riots of 1965, and that the murders<br />
were never reported or solved. With the cousin of one of the boys,<br />
they try to solve the boys’ deaths.<br />
December 7<br />
The Grass is Always Greener Over The Septic Tank,<br />
by Erma Bombeck<br />
It is the exposé to end all exposés, the truth about the suburbs:<br />
where they planted trees and crabgrass came up; where they<br />
planted the schools and taxes came up; where they died of old age<br />
trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex<br />
out of the schools and back into the gutters.<br />
Facilitators: <strong>OLLI</strong> Members<br />
4 Thursdays<br />
September 7, October 5<br />
November 2, December 7<br />
10:00am – 12:00pm<br />
Extended Education Building,<br />
EE-1205<br />
Fee: Free to <strong>OLLI</strong> Members<br />
NLLL 154 Section 01<br />
Course No. 43794<br />
<strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2017</strong> | www.csudh.edu/olli | (310) 243-3208 19
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