November Book Club Selection

Same Kind of Different As Me

by Ron Hall and Denver Moore


Our November selection is the true, inspirational story
of how two men from very different backgrounds
learn how to overcome judging other people.

The nonfiction story of Same Kind of Different As Me is a tale of deep pain and difficult circumstances but has the element of nearly-unbelievable redemption.

A poor, black man who is bitter and penniless ends up graciously loving those who hate him and closing a few high-level art deals, while a self-absorbed aristocrat ends up serving at a local homeless shelter and inviting the poor into his home. This simple story of friendship calls you to evaluate your life in light of the greatest love and compassion.

Learn more about the awesome work this book has inspired by going to the website:

Same Kind of Different As Me Website

Movie in the Making

Interview with the Authors

Our meeting will be held on December 11 at Jonnie's house in Riverview.
More details to come via email.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

This book, published in 2005, is an additional reading suggestion for the month of November. It was on the NY Times Bestseller List for 100 weeks and is under development as a movie.
It is a biographical story told by Jeannette Walls and aside from her Southern accent, she bears no outward traces of the extremely poor, nomadic childhood she chronicles in her brilliant new memoir, The Glass Castle. The tall, elegant MSNBC columnist bravely bares her lifelong secret of growing up with her three siblings and having to eat butter for dinner, make her own braces, and suffer the whims of her artistic, intelligent and utterly selfish parents, one she thought would get her kicked out of polite society and leave her socially ostracized once it was revealed. Walls’ greatest strength is her ability to tell her story with compassion and empathy rather than bitterness, letting the story unfold from her childhood perspective, from cooking hot dogs at age three and catching on fire, to growing up faster than most of us can probably imagine having to ever do. (gothamist.com)


For more information and interviews with the author check out these links:

Gothamist interview
2006 MSNBC

October Book Discussion and Luncheon "The Madonnas of Leningrad"

Thank you Adrienne for hosting!!!