The Alexandria Campus Book Club is open to all Alexandria Campus staff and faculty (full-time and adjunct). We meet off campus four times a year for discussions that are lively, collegial, and enlightening. Our discussions are held on Friday afternoons in the homes of members who live near the campus. Attendees bring snacks and beverages. The Book Club is an opportunity for all to shed the titles and roles of the workplace and explore new facets of the world around us as equal participants.

Dr. Tony Stanzo, Dean of Visual and Performing Arts and Public Services, provided the idea for a campus book club and it started in Fall 2003. Four books are selected each year by a group of volunteers who solicit suggestions, read reviews and develop the list for the year. We welcome suggestions and participation from all campus faculty and staff.

To learn more about the Alexandria Campus Book Club, contact Sylvia Rortvedt (srortvedt@nvcc.edu).

Books and Meeting Dates

2006-07

Friday, September 22, 2006               
Never Let Me Go, by Kauzo Ishiguro

Friday, November 3, 2006                
Untouchables: My Family’s Triumphant Journey Out of the Caste System in Modern India, by Narendra Jadhav

Friday, January 26, 2007
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan

Friday, March 30, 2007
The History Boys: A Play, by Alan Bennett


Past Books

2005-06

A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise by Ruth Reichl
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx

 
2004-05

A Hole in the Earth, by Robert Bausch
The Peaceable Classroom, by Mary Rose O’Reilley
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, by J. T. LeRoy
Conclave, by Robert Pazzi
 
2003-04
Atonement, by Ian McEwen
Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi
Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri

 

For more information on the Alexandria Campus Book Club, contact:

Sylvia Rortvedt
Alexandria Campus Library
Bisdorf 232
703.845.6020

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