Welcome to the PCH Library Teachers' Reading Group Blog! This blog will serve as a way of extending our book club conversations, should anyone so choose. Feel free to post about a book reported on at a meeting that you chose to read after hearing the report, a book you are currently reading, a question raised by a book you're reading, or anything else you'd like to discuss with book club members.

Friday, April 5, 2013

First Meeting Featured Book: Argo

Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled off the Most Audacious Rescue in History

by Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio
Reported by Donna Cleavelin
Report Highlights:
  • This account was the inspiration for the movie Argo, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
  • Gives insight into all of the details involved in changing a person's identity and what goes into training people how to do this, as well as descriptions of the complex task of creating disguises.  
  • Makes one think of all of the tricks in James Bond movies and their grounding in reality!
  • The book also gives proper credit to the Canadian government that the movie may not have done as well.
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