My book club

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Fri, 04-29-2005 - 2:36am

Tonight at my book club meeting we picked our books for the next year, well through Feb anyway. Here is what we will be reading.

May - City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
June - Kite Runner by Khaled Huseinni (I'm sure I spelled that wrong)
July - My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult (this was my suggestion and I'll be leading the discussion)
August - Lucia, Lucia by Adrianna Trigiani (unfortunately I'll be out of town for this discussion)
September - Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
October - Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
November - Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich and The Number One Ladies Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (these are both short and quick reads)
December - No book, we just have a party.
January - The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
February - The Peace Giver by James Farro

The only one I've read is My Sister's Keeper. I think it will be a good year.

Julie

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Registered: 04-06-2004
In reply to: naive2004
Fri, 04-29-2005 - 7:45am
I've read Rebecca as well...a really well-done novel but highly disturbing.
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Fri, 04-29-2005 - 8:16am

I've read My Sister's Keeper,which I liked a lot until the end,Lucia, Lucia, which I also liked, but I'm Italian-American and my mom worked in design so I'm a little biased and Nickel and Dimed, is an excellent non-fiction book that should be required reading for every high school student as a cautionary tale. The Time Traveller's Wife I had mixed feelings about. I am a librarian like the main character so it was fun to read about a very non-traditional librarian character (we're so often stereotyped) but I found his relationship with his love interest a little creepy since he first meets her as a child.

I think your group has made some excellent choices.

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Registered: 02-15-2005
In reply to: naive2004
Fri, 04-29-2005 - 2:28pm

Hi Julie,

It is interesting to me that your club picks a year in advance. We choose ours each month. We have decided to change up a little by changing the genre each month. This is what we've chosen:

Fiction
Biography or Memoir
Mystery
Historical Fiction
Short Stories
Southern Fiction
Classic
Current Bestseller
Chick lit or light reading
Current Event or True Crime

We decided to try and put some zing in the group. We've been together four years now and kind of needed a lift.

How do you choose your books?

Sue

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Registered: 03-20-2003
In reply to: naive2004
Fri, 04-29-2005 - 4:01pm

Wish I lived close enough to both of you. I would love to get involved in a book club. I think of starting one but then I'm so involved with the theatre I wonder where I sould get the time

Happy reading


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Registered: 04-04-2003
In reply to: naive2004
Fri, 04-29-2005 - 5:51pm

What great selections Julie. You should have some wonderful discussions based on those choices. My bookclub chooses two months in advance. We just read The Five People You Meet in Heaven and next month is Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser. We've also tried to mix it up a little this year with international authors (The Emigrants by Wilhelm Moberg), nonfiction (Under the Banner of Heaven and Fast Food Nation) and historical fiction (The Other Boleyn Girl). We don't have our June book chosen yet, but we should in the next couple of days.

Scrappy

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In reply to: naive2004
Fri, 04-29-2005 - 7:28pm

Hi Scrappy,


Nice to see you!

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Fri, 04-29-2005 - 11:46pm

We just all bring suggestions and vote. It can get heated but several people were missing so it wasn't too bad last night. The only real rules are that we do at least one classic and one juvenile or young adult book. After we go through all the suggestions we sort of catagorize them and and get a variety of catagories. It's fun and of course I've added alot of books to my TBR from the suggestions that didn't get selected.

Julie

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Registered: 04-04-2003
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Sat, 04-30-2005 - 12:15pm

Hi Teri!

Spring is having a hard time sticking around in CO this year. We've had quite a bit of snow in April. I think we've gotten more snow this month than we did in Jan.! Oh well. Springtime in the Rockies - you never know what you're going to get.

I also LOVED The Other Boleyn Girl. It was fantastic. Have you read any of her others? I've added them to my TBR list. I'm curious if they are just as good. Let me know what you think of Beneath a Marble Sky. It was my favorite read of '04. I just loved it.

Scrappy

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Sat, 04-30-2005 - 7:33pm

Hi Scrappy,


Actually I ordered Beneath a Marble Sky from the bookstore today as it was not in stock.

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Sat, 04-30-2005 - 10:42pm

Hi Teri! I agree about Boleyn Girl making me more interested in Henry VIII. Quite honestly this was a time period I had absolutely no interest in until reading it. Now I'm thoroughly intrigued. When I was at the bookstore the other day, I saw a book entitled The Autobiography of Henry VIII. It was a big book that looked to be historical fiction. I don't remember the author's first name but I think her last name was George. Has anyone read it? It looked quite good.

Scrappy

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