Mister Dickens

Our book group choice for The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. Here is the story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found.

Our book group choice for July 2003 is The Quiet American by Graham Greene. Narrated in the first person by journalist Thomas Fowler, the novel depicts the breakdown of French colonialism in Vietnam and early American involvement in the Vietnam War.