INTRODUCTION

The Chancellor's Reading Club gives members of the FSU community a variety of venues to discuss, question, debate, and share their perspectives of texts (through the spoken and written word) among each other. More...

UPCOMING EVENTS

	Monday, August 18, 2:30 p.m.: Reading Circles. FSU freshmen will discuss this year's selection, The Secret Life of Bees, with faculty. First-year students, make sure you have your copy before Orientation begins on August 16. More...
	Reading the Secret Life of Bees: This presentation, developed by FSU faculty and students, will help introduce you to the text.

"Lily Imagining Her Mother Deborah," by FSU art student G. Robert Bohanon III (click to enlarge).

CURRENT SELECTION

The Chancellor's Book Club selection for 2008 is The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd. Experience the story of a fourteen-year-old girl who leaves her abusive father to travel with her caregiver in search of links to her dead mother. While living with a family of beekeeping sisters, she experiences "family" for the first time and makes peace with her past. More...

PAST SELECTIONS

• 2007: Fast Food Nation, by Eric Schlosser.
• 2006: "The Conjure Woman and Other Tales," by Charles W. Chesnutt. More...
• 2005: "The Lion and the Jewel," by Wole Soyinka. More...
• 2004: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.   More...

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