February+2010

**Welcome to February's Book Club Page!**

By: Anita Shreve**
 * __The Weight of Water__

Paperback: 288 pages
 * Book Info:**

//Amazon.com Review//
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. (Can you guess which one?) She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness. The plot weaves between the narrative of the eyewitness and Jean's private struggle with jealousies and suspicions as her marriage teeters. A rich, textured novel. //--This text refers to the [|**Hardcover**] edition.//

//From Publishers Weekly//
In 1873, two women living on the Isles of Shoals, a lonely, windswept group of islands off the coast of New Hampshire, were brutally murdered. A third woman survived, cowering in a sea cave until dawn. More than a century later, Jean, a magazine photographer working on a photoessay about the murders, returns to the Isles with her husband, Thomas, and their five-year-old daughter, Billie, aboard a boat skippered by her brother-in-law, Rich, who has brought along his girlfriend, Adaline. As Jean becomes immersed in the details of the 19th-century murders, Thomas and Adaline find themselves drawn together-with potentially ruinous consequences. Shreve (Where or When; Resistance) perfectly captures the ubiquitous dampness of life on a sailboat, deftly evoking the way in which the weather comes to dictate all actions for those at sea. With the skill of a master shipbuilder, Shreve carefully fits her two stories together, tacking back and forth between the increasingly twisted murder mystery and the escalating tensions unleashed by the threat of a dangerous shipboard romance. Written with assurance and grace, plangent with foreboding and a taut sense of inexorability, The Weight of Water is a powerfully compelling tale of passion, a provocative and disturbing meditation on the nature of love. Author tour. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. //--This text refers to the [|**Hardcover**] edition.//

__Barnes and Noble:__ ($13.99 List price) They can order the novel for you in the store and have it within 5 business days (plus you get 20% off the cover price with your educator discount card which is free to have) or you can order online (Follow the link) [] __Amazon:__ ($10.07 New or $0.01 Used) (Follow the link to buy the novel) [] checked the book out from the library today! if already sent, i will give the second copy to bonnie kp
 * How to Buy:**


 * Location:** LVL's Apartment in Raleigh

__From Durham-__ http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl __From Butner/Oxford-__ http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
 * Directions:**


 * FROM DURHAM:**
 * Take US-70 East to Raleigh
 * When you get to Brier Creek, you will come to the I-540 interchange... you want to be in the "2nd furthest from the right" lane
 * At the I-540 interchange, get on I-540 East (the exit numbers should be increasing)
 * Take I-540 East to EXIT 16, Capital Blvd.
 * Take a RIGHT off the exit onto Capital Blvd/US-1 South (going towards Raleigh-Downtown)
 * At the first light (almost immediately), take a RIGHT onto Old Wake Forest rd.
 * At the first light (almost immediately), take a RIGHT onto Ruritania rd./st.
 * Eventually Perry Point apartment complex comes up on your Right hand side. DO NOT TURN INTO THE COMPLEX! Keep going until you get to the last apartment building on the right side (you are still on Ruritania!).
 * I will have a posterboard sign hanging off the balcony. I live on the 3rd floor, apartment 302. The apartment balcony and stairwell faces the street.

LVL's CELL #: (404) 444-4147
 * FROM BUTNER:**
 * Take a RIGHT onto D Street out of the school
 * Take a LEFT onto Main street/Cash rd.
 * Cross over I-85, and continue until the street dead ends at a stop sign
 * Take a LEFT onto Old Weaver Trail
 * At the stop sign, take a RIGHT onto Creedmoor rd/US-50 going towards Raleigh
 * At the I-540 interchange, get on I-540 East (the exit numbers should be increasing)
 * Take I-540 East to EXIT 16, Capital Blvd.
 * Take a RIGHT off the exit onto Capital Blvd/US-1 South (going towards Raleigh-Downtown)
 * At the first light (almost immediately), take a RIGHT onto Old Wake Forest rd.
 * At the first light (almost immediately), take a RIGHT onto Ruritania rd./st.
 * Eventually Perry Point apartment complex comes up on your Right hand side. DO NOT TURN INTO THE COMPLEX! Keep going until you get to the last apartment building on the right side (you are still on Ruritania!).
 * I will have a posterboard sign hanging off the balcony. I live on the 3rd floor, apartment 302. The apartment balcony and stairwell faces the street.

__Address-__ 3210 Trimblestone Lane Apt. #302, Raleigh, NC 27616

LVL- Chocolate cake balls, Corn Casserole, and Pulled-Brown Sugar- BBQ- Chicken (Jason's requesting it... odd, but it's good) Colleen- chili-spiced nuts Raisse-Chocolate Hazelnut cake (if I can find hazelnuts). My aunt has a hazelnut tree in Oregon but little help that gives me! Kristen- Antipasti Skewers Matt-veggies and dip. Not very creative, but I need some green. Beth- chocolate/peanut butter cookies Mary- 3 cheese Spagetti bake Shawn - Apple Walnut cake Jill-- I'll bring rolls to go w/ the chicken and corn and chips and salsa appetizer---I KNOW IT"S LAME!! been a busy week! Meg- no idea...just hope i am well enough to come! (Meg, I hope you're well enough to come too!!! -LVL)
 * Food To Be Eaten:**