So I started a new book club, sending out invites to all my neighbors and several gals in the church. There were five of us for the first get-together, with two sending book picks to add to the list for the year. Our first "discuss the book" meeting will be at the end of this month. I am so excited!!!!!So here is our list for the year. For so few people, we had a ton of suggestions. It was hard to narrow down, but narrow down we did to what I think is a great list.
2009-2010 Book Picks
November: Atonement by Ian McEwan
December: Get-together party - maybe a movie or a book swap of both - we'll decide at the November meeting
January: Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
February: Only the River Runs Free by Bodie Thoene
March: The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton
April: The Ladies #1 Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
May: The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs
off June and July but be getting ready for August's book
August: Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
September: The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
October: Life of Pi by Yann Martel
November: The Prodigal God by Tim Keller
December: The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson
So what are y'all reading these days?
5 comments:
Sounds great. And what a great opportunity to meet and share Christ with people. I'm excited for you and hope it grows.
What am I reading these days:
- "The Fellowship of the Ring"(more fun than I remembered)
- James Michener's "Tales of the South Pacific (thinking about putting it away before I finish, something I rarely do)
- Jonathan Edwards, "The Freedom of the Will" (slow-going, but brain-stretching)
Oooh, wish I was there so I could join in the club. I'm reading one of, I think, your favorite books right now: the Brothers Karamazov. You named your cat after the hero of the book, right? By the way, your photos of the mountains are incredible!
Heather,
So fun! I'll pray that it is a success for you all!
My friend Sarah and I finally got a book club off the ground this fall. It's a mix of people from work, church, and friends of friends. Some of our book selections are A Thousand Splendid Suns, Things Fall Apart, The Curious Case of the Dog in the Nightime/Night, Eat, Pray, Love, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
Happy reading,
Nicole
I'm looking forward to our first discussion! I just have to FINISH the book! Getting down to the wire here! Eek!
Somehow I seem to have fallen out of reading fiction on a regular basis. The last novel I read - maybe a couple of months back - was Kathy Reichs' book Deja Dead.
Currently reading:
- Conversation: a history of a declining art (Stephen Moore)
- The Gospel-Driven Life (Mike Horton)
- Alone in the kitchen with an eggplant (Jenni Ferrari-Adler)
- I'm just here for more food (Alton Brown)
I was trying to get around to reading some Tolstoy or Dostoevsky in 2009, but I doubt I'll get around to finishing one, particularly since I've only got a month and a half left.
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