Follow up on our meeting

I'm still embarrassed about getting last night's location wrong!
Thanks for hosting a wonderful meeting Helen--it's going to be hard for anyone to top the sushi in a boat (not that we are into the competition thing!).
Here's a list of suggested books for the remainder of the year:

The Black Swan
One Thousand White Women (hmmmm--another book with One Thousand in the title--a theme ala Amy's bee thing?)
Packing for Mars
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
Born to Run
Peeping Culture

I don't know anything about these, so if someone wants to pipe in with a summary, please do!

On another note, I mentioned that Vancouver is hosting a readers and writers event--here's the link to the website. Looks pretty cool. http://www.writersfest.bc.ca/