The Jane Austen Book club meets on February 13, at 6:00 pm in the MacIntyre Room in the Carnegie Building at 244 W. Michigan Ave.  We are reading Margaret Maron this year. She's a North Carolina native whose first novel, "Bootlegger's Daughter" won every major mystery award for best first novel. That book was the first to feature Deborah Knott, whose colorful Daddy was a bootlegger. Deborah is an attorney who decides to take a stand against "mean-minded judicial pettiness" and take on the Old Boy's Club by running for a retiring judge's seat.

The subtitle of the above book is Predators, Parasites and Partners That Shape Who We are Today and it proved irrestible to me.  The author is a professor in the biology department of North Carolina State University and has written extensively for magazines like National Geographic, Scientific American, Natural History, BBC Wildlife and Seed. 

The theme of the book is how we evolved in a world of parasites and predators that we have mostly eliminated in our environment, but our bodies are still ticking along with the internal systems we evolved

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February 2, 2012                                                                                         

Thanks to all of our entries for our Winter Lego Land Event.  Originality was evident and great fun.

Congratulations to: 1st place-Luke Holton

                                 2nd place- Cyrus Comfort

                        &nbs