Book Club
ECW Readers and Friends met recently to review and discuss (with both laughter and tears) Randy Pausch’s best-selling book The Last Lecture. A highly respected and popular computer science professor at Carnegie- Mellon, Dr. Pausch is married and the father of three young children.
On almost the same day that he was invited to give the college’s annual last lecture, Dr. Pausch was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given 3 to 6 months to live. He decided to use The Last Lecture podium to describe the goals he had set himself to live life fully and well. It was a lecture focusing on life rather than death, and it then evolved into book-form with the aid of Jeffrey Zaslow, a columnist who had attended the lecture.
At it’s next meeting, on August 26th 6:30 pm, at the Wimberly House the Readers will discuss The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood, an autobiographical novel about a mother coping with the loss of her only child. All interested readers are surely welcome.
Alice Mann
