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Square One Books
Hours:
Monday - Friday 10-6 Saturday 10-5:30
Sunday 12-5
Phone:
206 935-5764
Fax:
206 932-9937
Address:
4724 - 42nd Avenue SW Seattle, WA 98116-4552 |
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The Square One Book Club meets monthly, usually on the first
Thursday of the month. We meet for about an hour at
7 p.m. to discuss the monthly selection and choose books for
future meetings. There is no need to sign-up or reserve; you may
join us whenever it's convenient.
We would be
happy to send you an e-mail reminder of meetings. Your e-mail
address will not be visible to others when we send a meeting
reminder. Just leave your e-mail address with us at the store or
send it to us with this link:
bookclub.
Square One Book
Club meets at
Coffee To a Tea, with Sugar in the West Seattle Junction at 4541 California Ave. SW Seattle, WA
98116. Phone: (206) 937-1495.
Even
if you are unable to meet with us in person, you can still be a
part of the discussion. Please join us at the
Square 1 Books
Online Book Club.
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FUTURE SELECTIONS AND PAST READS:
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Thursday, December 4
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but
disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd.
From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his
old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of
becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of
finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to
the Fuku-the curse that has haunted the Oscar's family for
generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic
accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still
waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim.
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Thursday, November 6
My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
On Jan. 17, 1946, a psychiatrist named Walter Freeman
launched a radical new era in the treatment of mental
illness in this country. On that day, he performed the
first-ever transorbital or "ice-pick" lobotomy in his
Washington, D.C., office. Freeman believed that mental
illness was related to overactive emotions, and that by
cutting the brain he cut away these feelings.
Freeman, equal parts physician and showman, became a
barnstorming crusader for the procedure. Before his death in
1972, he performed transorbital lobotomies on some 2,500
patients in 23 states.
One of Freeman's youngest patients is today a 56-year-old
bus driver living in California. Over the past two years,
Howard Dully has embarked on a quest to discover the story
behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy
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Link
to Howard's story
on NPR
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Thursday, October 2
The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
Following her National Book Award finalist, Evidence of
Things Unseen, Marianne Wiggins turns her extraordinary
literary imagination to the American West, where the life of
legendary photographer Edward S. Curtis is the basis for a
resonant exploration of history and family, landscape and
legacy.
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