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Readers of the Week: The ABCs

One thing to know about us

The ABCs (Arbor 40 Book Club) started as a way to know other women in our condominium community in Oakbrook Terrace.


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Our meetings

We meet monthly in each other's homes. After a light dinner, we spend at least an hour discussing the book.

We liked

"Upstairs at the White House" by J.B. West with Mary Lynn Kotz, "Lincoln's Greatest Speech" by Ronald C. White Jr., "FDR and Lucy: Lovers and Friends" by Resa Willis.

We loved

We all like history, and "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini introduced us to a new culture.

We didn't like

"Diana: Story of a Princess" by Tim Clayton and Phil Craig. It didn't tell us anything we hadn't already read in general publications.

Author we'd like to meet

Two authors were mentioned: John Berendt, author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," and Donna Woolfolk Cross, author of "Pope Joan." The question for Berendt is how did he get so integrated into the lives of the people he wrote about? The question for Cross is how did she do the detailed research on life in the 800s?

Up next

"Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay, "A Father's Love" by David Goldman, and "Private: #1 Suspect" by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro.

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