Category:Book Club
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The Monday Night Book Club first met in September 1981 at the Georgetown home of Judith Green. The first members included: Tom Canby, Susan Fifer, Judith Green, Anna Wolgast, Betsy Blair, Susan McGrath, and Peter Tinsley. We selected our first book, Virginia’s Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own,” because it focussed on the importance of setting aside time for ourselves. Our first meeting was at Judith Green's N Street house, where we sipped wine and ate cookies while we discussed why having some discipline in our lives for good reading was essential to us all. Our pact was to read a good book each month – to impose a reading discipline on each other and to share our intellectual development.
As time went on, we developed the routine of meeting from 7-9:30 pm at each others houses to also share a light supper together. This informally set the size of the club to between 8-9 members at any one time – the number of people who could easily fit around most of our dinner tables.
The club evolved as lives changed and along the way we got to know Wendy Rogers, Jamie and Davis Cherington, Flip Nicklin, Guilia Adelfio, Rob Henry, Annie Griffiths Belt, Charlotte Sterling, Susan Munroe, and Ray Donnelly. We shared our tribulations and joys in dating, marriages, divorces, children, moving away, deaths and losses, job promotions, transfers and retirements, and always we shared our reading experiences.
More than twenty five years later, our Monday Night Book Club is composed of Tom Canby, Jenny Craig, Susan Fifer Canby, Doug Lapp, Kathy Moran, Ann Rosenthal, Bruce Mayor, Ron Meisberg, and Anna Wolgast. In October 2007, Tom Canby and Susan Fifer Canby resigned, encouraging the Book Club to recruit new members to take their places.
The following list represents a summary of that reading discipline during those years.
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