Books We've Read

Mountain Communities Reading Group

Nonfiction:

• Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen. Great book, an "exposé" of the weaknesses and mendacity of high school history textbooks, and how they got that way.
• Civil Disobedience, by Henry Thoreau. The familiar essay provoked a lively discussion.

Fiction:

• When I am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple. A collection of stories and poems written by and about old women. Good stuff.
• Tortilla Curtain, by T. Coraghessan Boyle. An excellent look at the life of Mexican immigrants in Southern California, and the "Liberals" who come to hate them.
• Middlemarch, by George Eliot. The current selection, to be discussed 4/7/04.

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