The Fairfax Library Book Discussion Group will meet this Thursday, October 13th at 7 p.m. in the meeting room of the Fairfax Library to discuss our October book: The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien.
Here are some links for additional background and information:
Video of TV reporting of the Vietnam war Check out some of the other video links
Analysis of The Things They Carried
A discussion of meta-fiction in the book
Interesting paper about Urban Legends and Folklore in The Things They Carried
Video interview with Tim O’Brien: 20 Years Later
Good website with lots of links for more information about the history of the Vietnam war
Coming up, we have the following titles to look forward to reading:
Thursday, November 10th – The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
Thursday, December 8th – The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Thursday, January 12th – The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Thursday, February 9th – Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
Thursday, March 8th – Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Thanks for reading with us. I look forward to seeing you at the Fairfax Library.
Beth Bailey-Gates
Friends of the Fairfax Library
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