Tuesday, October 14, 2014

October 2014-February 2015

November 3rd: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell @ April's
December 1st: Life after Life by Kate Atkinson @ Katrina's
January 5th: The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes @ Heather's
February 2nd: Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline @ Liz's
March 2nd: Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Potential Reads

Feel free to submit your own suggestions to Emily.  Please only suggest books you:  a) have read, b) you have verified have ample library copies, and c)you have checked the archives to ascertain that we have not previously read it or a book by that author.

FICTION
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Conner
Housekeeping: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
In this House of Brede by Rumor Godden
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

NON-FICTION
Arc of Justice: a Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Scheduled Reads:

March 3rd, 2014: The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion @ Amy's.
April 7th, 2014: Blindness by Jose Saramago @ Jeannette's.
May 5th, 2014: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck @ Suzy's.
June 2nd, 2014: The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff @ Deborah's.
July 7th, 2014: Destiny of the Republic: a tale of madness, medicine, and the murder of a president by Candice Milliard @ Katrina's.
August 4th, 2014: The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin @ Emily's.
September 8th, 2014: This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Prachett @ Liz's.
October 6th, 2014: Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt @ Alissa's.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Book Suggestions to Discuss

Fiction
The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty
Charity Girl by Michael Lowenthal
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Life after Life by Kate Atkinson
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
The Red Tent by Anita Diamont
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Where'd you go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Non-Fiction
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Knocking on Heavens Door: The path to a better way of death by Katy Butler
Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
This is the Story of a Happy Marriage by Ann Pratchett
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Watch as related to BOMB

Amy suggests this resource about an opera on the Bomb project and lots of documentation at this site. Fascinating! Of course, the bombsight is such a minor player in the book, but I find this to be a fascinating corellary on unintended consequences.

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

New Reads 2013 < 2014

August 12th at Rachel's
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
September 9th at Emily's: The End of your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
October 7th at Wende's: The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
November 4th at Katrina's: Bomb: the Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
December 2nd at Amy's: The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
January 6th 2014 at Liz's: Better: A Surgeons's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
February 3rd 2014 at April's: The Fault in our Stars by John Green