February: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

For February, we will be reading "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte. I remember the first time I became aware of this book was in ninth grade when my best friend read it for a book report. She was so angry at turn of events that she threw the book across the room! This book is filled with characters that we love to hate.

Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte. If you'd like, you can find an short and interesting biography of her here at The Victorian Web. Although she also published a book of poetry with her sisters, Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte's only novel. She died at the age of 30 from tuberculosis. However, some of her letters and papers have been published and if you're interested, you can access them here.

2011 Book Club selections

January - Night by Elie Wiesel (Margie Harton's house 1/20)

February - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Shannon Garofalo’s house 2/17)

March - Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Karen Rich's house 3/17)

April - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (Marisa Garofalo's house 4/21)

May - The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (5/19)

June - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (6/16)

July - These is My Words by Nancy Turner (7/21)

August - The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards (8/18)

September - Love, Lucy by Lucille Ball (9/15)

October - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (10/20)

November - The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck (11/)

December - skip month? book exchange?

January 2011: Night by Elie Wiesel

Book: Night by Elie Wiesel
When: Jan. 20, 2011
Where: Margie H.'s home



"Haunting in its graphic simplicity, Elie Wiesel's Night documents one of the most infamous crimes against humanity in a startlingly personal way. In this autobiographical account, Elie Wiesel tells of his deportation to the concentration camps at the age of 15 and his struggle to survive. In this new translation by his wife and new preface by the author, Wiesel seeks and successfully adds greater poignancy to his already deeply moving piece of history." -about.com

About the author...Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel was born in 1928 in Sighet, Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. He was fifteen years old when he and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perished, his two older sisters survived. Elie and his father were later transported to Buchenwald, where his father died shortly before the camp was liberated in April 1945. Click here for more.