Book club news - at the last meeting we enjoyed socializing over homemade desert, wine and coffee, and had an engaging conversation about AS Byatt's Biographer's Tale, post-modern novels and gender perspective. We also learned good news and bad news - co-organizer Suzanne Lea has received an appointment to the faculty at ECU School of Medicine, where she will be in the Department of Public Health, so she will be leaving the club. We all wish Suzanne the best!

Our next meeting is at the home of Bill and Barb Dahl in Chapel Hill, when we'll be reading Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Richard Russo's most recent novel, "Bridge of Sighs."

Bridge of Sighs, member comment: "When I was reading Bridge of Sighs I got so emotionally involved with it I wanted to dash through and find out how everything was going to turn out, so I consciously decided to do that and then buy it later and read more slowly."

Sunday, September 21, 7pm, at the home of Bill ('69) and Barbara Dahl

Address: 800 South Columbia Street, Chapel Hill (see map here)

CONTACTS: Book Club co-chairs are Faith Herndon '80, attorney, and Cal Nordt '72, poetry editor for The Raleigh Quarterly.