Meeting Reminder-July 19, 7 pm

Quick reminder of our meeting tomorrow night at Claire and Murray’s to discuss LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE MOSQUE. Remember to bring your book to return or turn it in to the book box in the BUF work room.

Laughing All the Way to the Mosque - July 19, 2018, 7 p.m.

 Laughing All the Way to the Mosque - July 19, 2018, 7 p.m.

WHERE: Claire and Murray's house - 3915 Cliffside Drive



Zarqa Nawaz has always straddled two cultures. She's just as likely to be agonizing over which sparkly earrings will "pimp out" her hijab as to be flirting with the Walmart meat manager in a futile attempt to secure halal chicken the day before Eid. 

Little Mosque on the Prairie brought Zarqa's own laugh-out-loud take on her everyday culture clash to viewers around the world. And now, in Laughing All the Way to the Mosque, she tells the sometimes absurd, sometimes challenging, always funny stories of being Zarqa in a western society. From explaining to the plumber why the toilet must be within sitting arm's reach of the water tap (hint: it involves a watering can and a Muslim obsession with cleanliness "down there") to urging the electrician to place an eye-height electrical socket for her father-in-law's epilepsy-inducing light-up picture of the Kaaba, Zarqa paints a hilarious portrait of growing up in a household where, according to her father, the Quran says it's okay to eat at McDonald's-but only if you order the McFish.


Books are available to group members in the BUF Work Room.  Please write your name and phone number in the log book when checking out a book and cross it out when returned.

6/21 Book Choosing Potluck at 6:00pm

We'll be having our book-choosing potluck on Thursday June 21st. Remember to bring a dish to share, and 2 book titles that you can recommend for the coming year. You need to have read the books, and preferably have a copy of each to bring with you.

WHERE: Claire and Murray's house - 3915 Cliffside Drive.

NO CURRENT BOOK TO READ

We are using this time between meetings for each of us to decide which 2 books, one fiction and one non-fiction, to bring to our June 21st meeting. That's when we will be choosing which books to read for the next year. 

We try to choose as many books as possible from the kits available at the library. To see the kits go to:  http://www.eventkeeper.com/kitkeeper/index.cfm?curOrg=BELLING

Of the books we choose one will be our donation to the library. We will buy 10 copies of that book for a new kit, paid for by our book group.

The End of Your Life Book Club, May 17, 2018, 7:00

A book that is expressly about books, about the purpose and pleasures of books, and the ways they connect us even as we read them as a solitary pursuit. . . . [It’s also] about, in part, the consolations we can find in art, books in particular, as we struggle to face the terrible awareness of our own mortality.” —The Plain Dealer

Where: Daria's home - 4127 Ridgewood Drive

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, April 19, 2018

How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them.

Where: Lauralee Carbone's home, 2212 40th St.
When: 7:00pm

March 15, 2018, 7:00pm - The Hate U Give

“In THE HATE U GIVE, by Angie Thomas, Starr Carter is a teen between two worlds: her school, which is rich, fancy, and white; and her neighborhood, which is poor and black. She navigates this differing terrain every day of her life until her worlds collide when she witnesses the fatal police shooting of her best friend, Khalil, an unarmed black teen. Khalil's death goes viral, and Starr is caught in the middle between the protesters in the street and her friends at school. With the eyes of the world on her, Starr has to decide: Will she say what happened that night? Will it matter?” —commonsensemedia.org

“This is tragically timely, hard-hitting, and an ultimate prayer for change. Don’t look away from this searing battle for justice. Rally with Starr.” —Adam Silvera, a New York Times bestselling author.

Where: Daria's home - 4127 Ridgewood Ave.