Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (Today Show Book Club #11)
2 journalers for this copy...
Found this one for $1 at... you guessed it.. the dollar store! Picked it up because it has the "Today's Book Club" logo on it... Will release at our local Starbucks after I've finished it...
Book Description
With stories in The New Yorker's debut fiction issue and in The Best American Short Stories, 2000, and as the winner of a Whiting Writers' Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, ZZ Packer has already achieved what most writers only dream about-all prior to publication of her first book.
Now, in Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident. Packer dazzles with her command of language-surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. With penetrating insight that belies her youth-she was only nineteen years old when Seventeen magazine printed her first published story-Packer takes us to a Girl Scout camp, where a troupe of black girls are confronted with a group of white girls, whose defining feature turns out to be not their race but their disabilities; to the Million Man March on Washington, where a young man must decide where his allegiance to his father lies; to Japan, where an international group of drifters find themselves starving, unable to find work.
Book Description
With stories in The New Yorker's debut fiction issue and in The Best American Short Stories, 2000, and as the winner of a Whiting Writers' Award and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, ZZ Packer has already achieved what most writers only dream about-all prior to publication of her first book.
Now, in Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, her impressive range and talent are abundantly evident. Packer dazzles with her command of language-surprising and delighting us with unexpected turns and indelible images, as she takes us into the lives of characters on the periphery, unsure of where they belong. With penetrating insight that belies her youth-she was only nineteen years old when Seventeen magazine printed her first published story-Packer takes us to a Girl Scout camp, where a troupe of black girls are confronted with a group of white girls, whose defining feature turns out to be not their race but their disabilities; to the Million Man March on Washington, where a young man must decide where his allegiance to his father lies; to Japan, where an international group of drifters find themselves starving, unable to find work.
Journal Entry 2 by mississippimom at Starbucks - Goodman Rd in Southaven, Mississippi USA on Friday, January 8, 2010
Released 14 yrs ago (1/9/2010 UTC) at Starbucks - Goodman Rd in Southaven, Mississippi USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I love to release books with 'coffee' in the title at various coffee shops.
Our BookCrossing meetup group is meeting at Starbucks this morning...
I'll leave this book on one of the tables out front!
ENJOY!
This book is my gift to you....
Welcome to Book Crossing!
Won’t you please take a moment and make a brief journal entry
to let us know this book has made a new friend.
You may keep this book or read & release it as I have done.
You may remain anonymous; however, I hope you’ll consider joining Book Crossing.
It’s fun, free and quite secure.
If you do join, I would be pleased
if you would list my screen-name MississippiMom in the referred by space.
If you are in the Memphis area, we would love to have you come meetup with the MidSouth BookCrossers.
You can find out about our upcoming meetups by clicking on this link....
MidSouth BookCrossers
Our BookCrossing meetup group is meeting at Starbucks this morning...
I'll leave this book on one of the tables out front!
ENJOY!
This book is my gift to you....
Welcome to Book Crossing!
Won’t you please take a moment and make a brief journal entry
to let us know this book has made a new friend.
You may keep this book or read & release it as I have done.
You may remain anonymous; however, I hope you’ll consider joining Book Crossing.
It’s fun, free and quite secure.
If you do join, I would be pleased
if you would list my screen-name MississippiMom in the referred by space.
If you are in the Memphis area, we would love to have you come meetup with the MidSouth BookCrossers.
You can find out about our upcoming meetups by clicking on this link....
MidSouth BookCrossers
Picked up at today's Midsouth Bookcrossing meetup at Starbucks. Thanks, Mississippimom, for releasing this one!
I read a few chapters, and just couldn't get into this book. It just didn't grab me. I will release it.
