This is the 2008 RIF RAFF BOOK CLUB list.

We will try to meet the last Sunday of each month unless there is a conflict. Please call to set up the meeting if your selection is being read. 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 of the meeting if you are interested in discussing any of the books.


SUNDAY January 27, 2008

Factotum

by Charles Bukowski

The wanderings of an aspiring writer who crosses the U.S. during the World War II era.


Sunday February 24, 2008

I, Titumba, Black Witch of Salem

by Maryse Conde

Based on the true story of a Black woman slave who was one of the first women accused of and prosecuted for being a witch in America.


SUNDAY March 30, 2008

Balzac abd the Little Chinese Seamstress

by Dai Sijie

Two city youths in China are sent off to a remote village to be "re-educated".


SUNDAY April 27, 2008

The Street of Crocodiles

by Bruno Schultz

Bizarre boyhood memories in the Polish city of Drogobych.


SUNDAY May 25, 2008

The Ruins

by Scott Smith

Maya-Mexican fiction.


SUNDAY June 29, 2008

Water for Elephants

by Sara Gruen

Experiences in a traveling circus, including Rosie the elephant who only understands Polish commands.


SUNDAY July 27, 2008

Vintners's Luck

by Elizabeth Knox

In 1808, a man stumbles on an angel in the family vineyard.


SUNDAY August 31, 2008

Kitchen Confidential Updated Version: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

Honest confessions of the lusty and larcenous real lives of cooks and restaurateurs.


SUNDAY September 28, 2008

Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

Bawdy adventures of a young writer in Paris.


SUNDAY October 26, 2008

Killer on the Road

by James Ellroy

A shocking, terrifying look inside the twisted mind of a serial killer.


SUNDAY November 30, 2008

A Christmas Story

by Jean Shepherd

Five short stories that inspired the hilarious classic movie.


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