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Neighborhood A/B
Contact Persons:
Kathy Censky and Patricia McKenna
Phone:
703-312-0683 (Kathy) or
703-528-4899 (Patricia)
Email:
kcensky@asaenet.org (Kathy) or
patricia.mckenna@usdoj.gov (Patricia)
2003-2004 Neighborhood A/B Book Club
Pictures from past events and other archived content (the Neighborhood A/B Archive)
St. Charles Borromeo Parish Neighborhood A/B represents the area bounded by the George Washington Parkway to the east, Barton, Clarendon and Veitch Streets to the west, Lee Highway to the north and Pershing and Route 50 to the south; plus, it includes Neighborhood a around Iwo Jima.
There are over 300 St. Charles households in Neighborhood A/B, and the vast majority of Neighborhood A/B residents live in low-, mid- or high-rise condominium and apartment complexes.
The greatest concentration of Neighborhood A/B parishioners is found in the Colonial Village complex, followed by River Place, The Williamsburg, Woodbury Park and Courtland Towers.
During the coming year, the Neighborhood A/B Book Club has selected a diverse list of books to discuss. Our authors come from the Philippines, Turkey, India, Britain, and America. They have written fiction, poetry, biography and history. Please feel free to come join us even if it is only to discuss one of these fascinating reads. Contact Mike McDonald at 703-522-1078 or mmcdd@comcast.net.
| Reading List | |
|---|---|
| July 31 | John Adams by David McCullough (Part 1, pp. 17-332) |
| August 21 | John Adams by David McCullough (Part 2, pp. 333-651) |
| (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and several other awards.) | |
| September 25 | Ironweed by William J. Kennedy. Making peace with the past in Depression-era Albany. |
| October 30 | My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk. Murder mystery in Sixteenth Century Istanbul – Compared to The Name of the Rose. |
| November 20 | The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester. |
| December 13 | Annual Christmas Party in lieu of meeting. |
| January 29 | When the Rainbow Goddess Wept by Cecilia Manguerra Brainard. A young child in the Philippines during WWII uses the stories and myths of her people to try to make sense of the death, destruction, love and hope about her. |
| February 26 | Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins. Poems by America's Poet Laureate. |
| March 25 | Excellent Women by Barbara Pym. The foibles of British Anthropologists are observed by English villagers. |
| April 29 | In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh. The foibles of an Indian anthropologist are observed by Egyptian villagers. |
| May 27 | Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade by James Reston. |
| June 24 | Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brien. England fights Napoleon at sea. |
Revised/reviewed August 7, 2003