No Ordinary Time | Doris Goodwin |
4 Non-fiction Life of FDR and Eleanor WWII |
Guest Speaker* | Nancy Pickard |
What a treat. Check her out. Read the Jenny Cain series in order. |
Three Women at the Water’s Edge | Nancy Thayer | 2 |
Sing to Me of Dreams | Katherine Davis | 3 |
West With the Night | Beryl Markham |
2 This is her story. We found out there was another side of her life she omitted to tell us. |
Yellow Raft on Blue Water | Michael Dorris | 3 |
The Shell Seekers | Rosamund Pilcher | 3 |
The Volcano Lover | Susan Sontag | 2 |
Ladder of Years | Anne Tyler | 3 |
The Education of Little Tree | Forrest Carter |
3 Wonderful story, yet again we found out it was not a true story |
Stones from the River | Ursula Hegi |
4 Read "Floating in my Mother's Palm" after. She actually wrote this story first but it is a sequel to Stones. Also WWII |
The Secret History | Donna Tartt |
3 Very Dark |
Schindler’s List | Thomas Keneally |
4 WWII Book |
Robber Bride | Margaret Atwood | 3 |
My Antonia | Willa Cather |
2 Pulitzer Prize winner in the 1920's |
Colony | Anne Rivers Siddons |
3 After about 4 books by this author, you realize the characters are all the same |
Cider House Rules | John Irving | 3 |
The Age of Innocence | Edith Wharton | 3 |
Postcards | E. Annie Proulx | 3 |
Family Pictures | Sue Miller | 3 |
Beloved | Toni Morrison |
3 I was still confused on what was real in this book |
The Firm | John Grisham | 2.5 | ||
Garden of Lies | Eileen Goudge | 3 | ||
Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | 4 | ||
Scarlett | Alexandra Ripley | 2 | ||
The Vampire Lestat | Anne Rice | 2 | ||
Cold Sassy Tree | Olive Ann Burns | 3.5 | ||
A Thousand Acres | Jane Smiley | 3 | ||
The Bridal Wreath | Sigrid Undset |
2 Difficult but a challenging read.
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Bridges of Madison County | Robert Waller |
2 Some of us thought it was a true story, we were mad we were tricked.
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White Butterfly | Walter Mosley | 2 -mystery | ||
All the Pretty Horses | Cormac McCarthy |
3 Great and different style of writing.
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Anne of Green Gables | L.M. Montgomery | 3 | ||
The Kitchen God’s Wife | Amy Tan |
4 Wonderful story in China. |
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Mall Rats | Kevin Robinson |
2 His first and third books are much better.
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We have set up guidelines for the club. They are: read the book, be a hostess, RSVP to the hostess, and if you drop out, notify a member.
It is the job of the hostess to research the author and possible book reviews. She starts the meeting with information she has found. This usually gives us a better insight to the book we have read. We have found the author's personal life experiences are, many times in their book. We discuss the characters, (even the minor ones who usually get overlooked, but they are there for a reason), the time era, culture, is it believable, and style of writing. Sometimes we will have a readers guide which can be obtained through the publishing house. This can aid in the discussion with questions we hadn't thought of. We once used Cliff Notes but didn't agree with a few of their notes at all! Even using reviews, you need to remember that this is just one person's opinion- not the only correct answer. We sometimes wonder if we read more into a book then the author even intended. Through discussion, we can take what we think is a mediocre book and through each others interpretations and insights, walk away thinking " Wow, what a book!" Some of us use post-its to mark certain passages to read out loud, if we have a question, or to bring out a point. There have been times when a member will have a question and another member will have marked it and will be able to respond.
The hostess also reserves the books at the library for us. We are very fortunate to be part of a library system that has many copies of the book we select and they order them for us a month ahead of time. We rarely need to purchase a book. It is also up to the hostess to maintain order during the discussion so that we don't talk on top of each other or separate into private discussions which is easy to do. When that happens, we miss out what others are saying.
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