The Modern Voices Reading and Discussion Group was created by popular demand from readers who want to participate in a daytime group. Modern Voices meets monthly on the third Tuesday at noon in the meeting room of the main library. The group reads and discusses books of all kinds, including fiction and nonfiction. Everyone is welcome to join the discussion. Bring your lunch or indulge in one of the treats provided by the Friends of the Albany Library.
Book Summary
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of
Two Society Girls in the West
by, Dorothy Wickenden
In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead Mountains and rode to school on horseback, often in blinding blizzards. Their students walked or skied, in tattered clothes and shoes tied together with string. The young cattle rancher who had lured them west, Ferry Carpenter, had promised them the adventure of a lifetime. He hadn’t let on that they would be considered dazzling prospective brides for the locals.
Modern Voices Reading and Discussion Group
Tuesday, June 18th, 2013, 12:00 p.m.
Albany Public Library
2450 14th Avenue SE
Albany OR 97322
About the Author
Dorothy Wickendenhas been the executive editor of The New Yorker since 1996. She also writes for the magazine and is the moderator of its weekly podcast “The Political Scene.” She is on the faculty of The Writers’ Institute at CUNY’s Graduate Center, where she teaches a course on narrative nonfiction.
She was national affairs editor at Newsweek from 1993-1995. Before that, she spent fifteen years at The New Republic, as managing editor and later as executive editor. She edited The New Republic Reader: 80 Years of Opinion and Debate (Basic Books, 1994). She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 1988-1989.She lives with her husband and her two daughters in Westchester, New York.
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Modern Voices Book Title List ( * Unavailable for book club kit checkout.)
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl, by Timothy Egan
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo
When the Emperor was Devine, by Julie Otsuka
Isaac's Storm: a man, a storm, and the deadliest hurricane in history by Erik Larson
Work Song by Ivan Doig
The Big Burn, by Timothy Egan
The Samurai's Garden, by Gail Tsukiyama *
Manhunt: the 12-day chase for Lincoln's killer, by James L. Swanson *
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The Bookseller of Kabul, by Asne Seierstad *
Church of the Dog, by Kaya McLaren
The Sisters Antipodes, by Jane Alison *
Shanghai Girls, by Lisa See *
Rising From the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class, by Larry Tye
Angle of Repose, By Wallace Stegner
Nothing Like it in the World, By Stephen E Ambrose
The Whistling Season, By Ivan Doig
A Moveable Feast, The Restored Edition, By Ernest Hemingway
The Great Gatsby, By F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Reading Lolita In Tehran by Azar Nafisi
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky by Heidi Durrow
Gracefully Insane by Alex Beam
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace...One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Crossing the Gates of Alaska: One man two dogs 600 miles off the map by Dave Metz
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Isaac's Storm: a man, a time, and the deadliest hurricane in history by Erik Larson
They Forged the Signature of God by Viriato Sencion
