This is the 2006 RIF RAFF BOOK CLUB list.

We will try to meet the last Sunday of each month unless there is a conflict. Check the web site at http://condor.depaul.edu/~rstuba for meeting details or e-mail comments prior to the meeting date to: rifraffbc@hotmail.com And you could always give us a call for details.


SUNDAY January 29, 2006

Rumble Young Man Rumble

by Benjamin Cavell

Nine short stories that deal with man's troubles of being a man.


SUNDAY February 26, 2006

Shaking the Tree: A Collection of New Fiction and Memoir by Black Women

edited by Meri Nana Ama Danguah

A collection of 23 writers from a new era of Black women authors published after 1990.


SUNDAY March 26, 2006

Breakfast on Pluto

by Patrick McCabe

Transvestite prostitute tries to find love in 1970's London.


SUNDAY April 30, 2006

Strand of a Thousand Pearls

by Dorit Rabinyan

Bittersweet fable about desires fulfilled and denied.


SUNDAY May 28, 2006

The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion

A book about the ways people do not deal with the fact that life ends.


SUNDAY June 25, 2006

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Three children at a bizarre English boarding school who are preparing for a mysterious and terrrible future.


SUNDAY July 30, 2006

I'm With the Band

by Pamela Des Barres

1987 classic slutty mother of a rock-groupie memoirs.


SUNDAY August 27, 2006

The Maltese Falcon

by Dashiell Hammett

Classic, well-known Sam Spade novel. Read the book and then watch the movie.


SUNDAY September 24, 2006

Our Endangered Values:Americas Moral Crisis

by Jimmy Carter

Description of disturbing current social trends in the good ol' USA.


SUNDAY October 29, 2006

The Screwtape Letters

by C.S. Lewis

A classic masterpeice of satirical coorespondence of the old devil to his young nephew on earth.


SUNDAY November 26, 2006

Ten Little Indians

by Sherman Alexie

A collection of Native American short stories.


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