Western Wayne Washtenaw Alumnae
2011 Sigma Sigma Sigma Alumnae Chapter of the Year
Book Club
September Book
Book: “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker
Meeting Date: Friday, September 10, 2010
Meeting Place: Holton Home: 14389 Bassett, Livonia, MI
Book Summary: Celie is a poor black woman whose letter tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to project her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to “Mister”, a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister’s letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love and independence provided by her close friend Shug, pushes her finally toward an awakening of her creative and loving self.
November Book
Book: “The Sigma Protocol” by Robert Ludlum
Meeting Date: Friday, November 12, 2010
Meeting Place: TBD
Book Summary: Ben Hartman is vacationing in Zurich, Switzerland when he chances upon his old friend Jimmy Cavanaugh—a madman who’s armed and programmed to assassinate. In a matter of minutes, six innocent bystanders are dead. So is Cavanaugh. But when his body vanishes, and his weapon mysteriously appears in Hartman’s luggage, Hartman is plunged into an unfathomable nightmare...
January Book
Book: “Three Cups of Tea” by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin/Adapted by Sarah Thomson
Meeting Date: Friday, January 14, 2011
Meeting Place: TBD
Book Summary: Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin is the true story of Mortenson's work building schools in remote villages in Pakistan. Mortenson moves from a lost climber who promises a school to one small village to a major player in promoting peace through education in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
March Book
Book: “Triangle” by Katharine Weber
Meeting Date: Friday, March 11, 2011
Meeting Place: TBD
Book Summary: The last living survivor of a 1911 sweatshop fire, 106-year-old Esther Gottesfeld passes away leaving numerous questions about the fire, the truth of which is investigated by her granddaughter Rebecca, Rebecca's composer partner, and a zealous feminist historian with a personal agenda.
May Book
Book: “WWW Club” by Anita Notaro
Meeting Date: Friday, May 13, 2011
Meeting Place: TBD
Book Summary: In their quest for cellulite reduction and a sexy self-image, Ellie Simpson, a Dublin nanny, and her three best friends -- Maggie, a secretary; Pam, a divorced mother of two; and Toni, a nurse -- have tried them all, but thus far they've had no better luck losing five pounds than they have had finding lasting love.
To cope with their middle-aged cottage-cheese thighs and date nights spent more often than not at home on the couch, they decide to form the WWW -- Women Watching Weight -- Club, meeting weekly to talk sex, spider veins, and the grim digestive realities of their latest diet -- all while indulging in calorie-packed takeout and drinking wine and beer without the slightest trace of guilt (followed by their weekly weigh-in and a group vow to definitely start their diets again tomorrow!).
With one another's unwavering support, the WWW girls face the ups and downs of their love lives, careers, and waistlines. But when they make a bet that the first WWW member to lose seven pounds will be entitled to be set up on a date by the other three, Ellie finds herself torn between her loyalty to her best friends in the WWW and her own deepening feelings for the one man who just might be everything she's ever wanted.
