We met on Wednesday night to discuss The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Toobin. Everyone enjoyed this book and I hope you all got a chance to read it.
For April, we are reading Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time, by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin. The book gets excellent customer reviews on Amazon. Here's an excerpt from Publishers Weekly. We are going to meet at Panera Bread on Wednesday evening, April 2nd at 6:30 PM. I hope you can join us.
Linda
From Publishers WeeklySome failures lead to phenomenal successes, and this American nurse's unsuccessful attempt to climb K2, the world's second tallest mountain, is one of them. Dangerously ill when he finished his climb in 1993, Mortenson was sheltered for seven weeks by the small Pakistani village of Korphe; in return, he promised to build the impoverished town's first school, a project that grew into the Central Asia Institute, which has since constructed more than 50 schools across rural Pakistan and Afghanistan. Coauthor Relin recounts Mortenson's efforts in fascinating detail, presenting compelling portraits of the village elders, con artists, philanthropists, mujahideen, Taliban officials, ambitious school girls and upright Muslims Mortenson met along the way. As the book moves into the post-9/11 world, Mortenson and Relin argue that the United States must fight Islamic extremism in the region through collaborative efforts to alleviate poverty and improve access to education, especially for girls. Captivating and suspenseful, with engrossing accounts of both hostilities and unlikely friendships, this book will win many readers' hearts.
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