1997

Snow Falling on Cedars	David Guterson	4 WWII featuring the Japanese in the US .
In the Beauty of the Lilies	John Updike	1 No one really liked this book.
Goodwill, No Ordinary Time	Jane Smiley	3 We had a book writer from the newspaper sit in on this discussion and wrote about our book club for the Sunday newspaper
Object Lessons	Anna Quinlan	3
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn	Betty Smith	4 We had a great discussion on this.
For The Roses	Julie Garwood	2 Typical romance.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	John Berendt	3+ Fascinating story. After reading this, I went out on the Internet and read everything I could on the author and the story itself. I printed out all the maps, pages, and pictures of houses where people lived to get the real feel of the story.
The Notebook	Nicholas Sparks	2
Women Who Run With the Wolves	Clarissa Pinkola Estes	2 Psychological book on women. A good reference book but not one to sit down and read cover to cover in one sitting.
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy	3+ Great insight of life in India and women
A Spanish Lover	Joanna Trollope	3

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