• The Dictionary of Lost Words

    3750 Book Club Meet for September 2022 The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams (goodreads.com) In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutters to…

  • Let the Great World Spin

    3750 Book Club Meet for May 2022 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (Goodreads Author) Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (goodreads.com) In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Let the Great World Spin is the critically acclaimed author’s most ambitious novel yet: a dazzlingly rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. Corrigan, a radical young Irish monk, struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A…

  • 3750’s Spring Break Party

    Why should college kids have all the fun? Come to 3750’s Spring Break Party! Come socialize, and enjoy beer, wine and pizza* with our neighbors at 3750. Flip flops optional. Who: 3750 Residents What: Spring Break Party and Mixer Where: Garden Court When: Thurs. March 31, 5 p.m. to whenever Why: Because we can. Please RSVP by March 25 by filling out the form below and clicking the submit button. We look forward to seeing you there! Volunteers welcome. * Gluten-free pizza available

  • Book Club Meet for March 2022

    3750 Book Club Meet for March Monday March 28th @ 7PM in the Hospitality Room. Please RSVP Todd Cannon 4B at toddcannon@comcast.net or 312-841-9795. Please note that you must be fully vaccinated to attend. Thank you. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi Keisha N. Blain Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi (goodreads.com) An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Souls is a chronological account of four hundred years of Black America as told by ninety of America’s leading Black writers. Curated by Ibram X. Kendi, author…

  • Healing Cambodia

    HEALING CAMBODIA: An insider’s look at the unprecedented tribunal bringing the Khmer Rouge to justice and a country to closure STEFFANIE GARRETT Former United Nations Legal Officer, The Khmer Rouge Tribunal Hospitality Room Sunday, 2pm, September 15th The Khmer Rouge governed Cambodia from 1974 until 1979, when the Vietnamese Army forced the regime out of power. In less than four years, the brutal regime under the Marxist dictator Pol Pot killed close to two million people, most of whom were its fellow Cambodians – approximately a quarter of the country’s population – by the execution, starvation, disease, and forced labor of the “killing fields.” After 20 years of civil war…