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Welcome to Our New Reviewers

Bookin’ with Sunny  is pleased to introduce two of our newest book reviewers: Dan Erwine: Dan holds a BS in Telecommunications, San Diego State University and recently

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Bell Ringers

Henry Porter’s The Bell Ringers is set in England’s future, the very immediate future. Next week? Next month? Next year? It isn’t science fiction; rather,

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Book Club
Sunny Solomon

MAY

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Author: David Mitchell Meeting Date: May 13th  –  7:00 p.m.  – Clayton Community Library

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Book Club Discussions – Wow

Last night’s discussion of Stephanie Cowell’s Claude & Camille is exactly why it’s worth the monthly drive down from  Reno, Nevada to Clayton, California  in order  to

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Fun and Games
This 'N That
Sunny Solomon

Book Launch for Fun and Games

David Michael Slater Local author and teacher at Pine Middle School is launching his new book, Fun and Games today at Barnes & Noble at 4:00 p.m.

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Fiction
Neal Ferguson

Chronicle in Stone

Kadare’s intriguing novel is the first I’ve read by an Albanian. It is set in World War II and narrated by (I’m guessing) a ten

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Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Expatriates

The Expatriates I would love to overhear a book club conversation about Janice Y. K. Lee’s novel, The Expatriates. Let me picture the composition of

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Film
Dan Erwine

High Noon

HIGH NOON, THE HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST AND THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN CLASSIC Subtitled The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic, High Noon

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Book Club
Sunny Solomon

MARCH

The Girl With the Seven Names — Hyeorsio Less and David John, Monday, March 11, 2019, 7:00 pm, Clayton Community Library

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The Best Land Under Heaven
Nonfiction
Neal Ferguson

Reflections on the Donner Party

MICHAEL WALLIS AND BERNARD DEVOTO ENLIVEN THE DONNER PARTY AND MANIFEST DESTINY In The Best Land Under Heaven, Wallis recounts the history of the Donner

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El Deafo
Children's graphic novels
Sunny Solomon

El Deafo

El Deafo – Cece Bell’s superhero, airborne with a red cape and, do our eyes deceive us, wearing a hearing aid? This is a graphic

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The Weight of Snow
Fiction
Ann Ronald

The Weight of Snow

The Weight of Snow – Christian Guay-Poliquin’s novel: an existential story whose antihero protagonist is, as this reviewer puts it, “a man in a hell

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Book Club
Sunny Solomon

MARCH

The Snow Child Author: Eowyn Ivey Meeting Date: Monday, March 11, 2013

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