Brothas Well Read Book Club

BWR Chat Schedule

Monday, November 23, 2009

The Torturer's Wife by Thomas Glave

8:00 P.M. Eastern


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Brothas Well Read Book Club is for like-minded African American men to come together to discuss a variety of stimulating literary pieces.

Events

2008 BWR Reading List

BWR Reading List.doc
January 2008, Them, Nathan McCall

February 2008, Gentleman Jigger, Richard Bruce Nugent

March 2008, The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd

April 2008, Right Side of the Wrong Bed, Frederick Smith

May 2008, Seen It All and Done the Rest, Pearl Cleage

June 2008, No Disrespect, Sistah Souljah

July 2008, They Tell Me of a Home , Daniel Black

August 2008, Just Too Good to Be True, E. Lynn Harris

September 2008, Letters to a Young Brother by Hill Harper

October 2008, The Beautiful Struggle by Ta-Nehisi Coates

November, So You Call Yourself A Man by Carl Weber

December-Holiday Break

January 2009, The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

February 2009, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

March 2009, Basketball Jones by E. Lynn Harris

April 2009, Action Plan by Suze Orman

May 2009, Push by Sapphire

June 2009, The Messiah by Lee Hayes

July 2009, Too Much of a Good Thing Ain't Bad by Clarence Nero

August 2009, The Lie by O.H. Bennett

September 2009, Dark Child by Travis Hunter

October 2009, Mama Dearest by E. Lynn Harris
 

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Online Membership
It is FREE. We just require you to read the book prior to the online discussion.

Atlanta Chapter Membership
In order to keep the meetings more personal, the group has decided that membership will not exceed more than twenty members.
To be a successful group member one must be COMMITTED.

• Committed to attending the monthly meetings
• Committed to reading the book selected each month
• Committed to participating in the discussion
• Committed to supporting the group


BWR Meetings
The meetings are held once a month. The group decides upon the location, date, and time of each meeting. Each member is encouraged to host at least one meeting. He has the option to sponsor the refreshments or suggest that the group participate in potluck. Each meeting is designed to bring forth a new experience.

Book Selection
Each month members are encouraged to bring suggested readings for the upcoming month. Suggested readings should be no more than 300 pages.

A synopsis should be included when suggesting a book.
The suggested books are placed in a pool and randomly selected for reading. In some cases the group may strongly suggest a title and unanimously vote on reading that particular book for the month.
The member who recommends the book selected would facilitate the book discussion using his own creative style.

BWR Membership Dues
Monthly dues are $5.00, or $60.00 per year. The money is used to cover all administrative expenses.

New Ideas and Suggestions
If you have any questions, concerns and ideas please contact us:
email: info@brothaswellread.com

BWR Book Of The Month




Glave's second collection is a disquieting, graphic, semiexperimental compendium examining violence and ignorance in and out of wartime. After opening with a contemporary relationship drama, Glave makes the jarring transition to armed conflicts, invasion and genocide. What most unifies these works is what's left unsaid—secrets are a constant, and there are virtually no names. Glave's style, full of interruptions, ellipses, unconventional text treatments and poemlike breaks, sends each story whirling thickly toward its end: in the title story, a woman called She is haunted by grotesque nightmares of dismembered body parts raining on her house and garden, after discovering her high-ranking husband's wartime atrocities. In the allegorical Milk/Sea; Sentience, the dreams of a sleeping village of women heal war's wounds. Between takes a step back to focus on a couple, telling the story of two racist gay men in an interracial relationship; cleverly, Glave refers to both as one of them. Laced with grisly details, this daring but uneven collection may not find a wide audience, but makes an intriguing experiment in post-postmodern war fiction.


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BWR Outreach

BWR In The Community

Brothas Well Read has partnered with "Boys Who D.A.R.E" to volunteer with them each month with their monthly reading program.

The Boys Who Dream, Achieve, Read and Empower and (D.A.R.E) reading program is a non-profit organization designed to promote literacy in young males residing in Metro Atlanta.

www.boyswhodare.org

BWR Sponsored Links

BookingMatters.com

BoysWhoDare.org

KeithKnows.net

OutWriteBooks.com

BWR History


Founded in September 2000 in Atlanta, Georgia by Roderick Tate, Brothas Well Read was started to share his passion for reading amongst his friends. He invited several friends to the first meeting, not knowing what to expect. As a result of the strong interest and support, Brothas Well Read was created.

The group consists of African-American men with diverse backgrounds. Each member’s uniqueness and creative energy adds to the group’s success.

Brothas Well Read Book Club is for like-minded African American men to come together to discuss a variety of fiction and non-fiction books. It provides a warm comfortable atmosphere in which we can fellowship, engage in intellectual discussion, and enrich each other’s lives.

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