Brighton Book Club

2012 Part 1

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February 6th
Nurtureshock by Po Bronson @ Suzys

March 5th
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde @ Wendes

April 2nd
The Heretics Daughter by Kathleen Kent @ Deborahs

May 7th
No Biking in the House without a Helmet by Melissa Fay Greene

June 4th
Galore by Michael Crummey

July 2nd
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua

Potential Reads

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Please submit books you would like the club to consider selecting for the next round.

Fiction:
Bel Canto
Elsewhere (YA)
Galore
The Heretics Daughter by Kathleen Kent (historical fiction)
The Importance of Being Earnest
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
The Mother-Daughter Book Club (YA)
Mr. Chartwell
My Mother She Killed me, My Father He Ate me: forty new fairy tales
The Night Circus
On the Beach
The Persian Pickle Club
Room
Say her Name
Shelter Me by Juliette Fay
Up the Down Staircase
The Weird Sisters
When God was a Rabbit
When you Reach Me (YA)
Witch & Wizard (YA and manga)

Non-Fiction:
Cinderella Ate my Daughter: Dispatches from the front lines of the girlie-girl culture
Citizens of London: The Americans who Stood with London in its darkest, finest hour
Enslaved by Ducks
In the Garden of Beasts
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
Lost in Shangri-La
Malled: My Unintentional Career in Retail
x2 No Biking in the House without a Helmet by Melissa Fay Greene (memoir)
Nurtureshock
The Other Wes Moore
Reading Lips: A Memoir of Kisses (not avaialble at library)
Ride the Butterflies (not available at the library)
Tales from a Free-Range Childhood (not available at the library)
The Year we Left Home

Book Picks for Winter 11/12

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October 10th: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte hosted by Trista

vember 7th: At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson hosted by Rachel
December 5th: Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok hosted by Wende
January 2nd: The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Muakami hosted by Emily.

Books for June 2011 - October 2011

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June 6: In the Neighborhood - Peter Lovenheim (Emily)
July 11: Half the Sky - Nicholas D. Kristoff (Deborah)
August 1: The Help - Kathryn Stockett (April)
September 12: Romancing Miss Bronte - Juliet Gael (Amy)
October 3: Fall of Giants - Ken Follett (Trista)***Changed to The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

CHANGE OF VENUE

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The book club for this Monday will be changed to my house (Anna). David is out of town and if I don't host I won't be able to go, so Trista graciously let me take over. I will also send out an email as well, but if you see or talk to anyone in book club, please make sure they know.

Selections for December 2010 - May 2011

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December: Little Bee by Chris Cleave (at Wende's)
January: Family: A Novel by J. California Cooper (at Emily's)
February: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson (at Shala's)
March: The Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise by Juila Stuart (at Stephani's)
April: One Day by David Nicholls (at Anna's)
May: Let the Great World Spin by Calum McCann (at Anna's)

Next Week's Location

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Book Club is at Katrina's next week. Please make sure you know her new address before you go. You can call or email her if you don't know it. You can also find it in the church directory.

Change of Date

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Please note that September's book club will be held at Deborah's on the 13th and not the 6th. If you talk to any fellow book clubbers, please make mention of this to them.

Thanks!!

Need a New Host for October

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Since Amy Greenway is sadly leaving us, we need a new host for October. Leave a comment, call, or email me if you want to host book club that month. We'll miss you, Amy! Lots of love and luck to you and your family.

***Katrina has volunteered. Thanks!

Readings for June - November 2010

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To guarentee a copy, please check for availabilty well in advance as many of these books have few copies or are in high demand.

To be discussed on:

June 7: Bloodroot by Amy Greene (at Anna's)
July 5: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcom Gladwell (at Amy S.'s) RESERVE A COPY SOON
August 2: Push Not the River by James Conroyd Martin (at Trista's)
September 13: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stout (at Deborah's)
October 4: The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar (at Katrina's)
November 1: The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz (at Emily's)

Book discussion kits available for: Olive Kitteridge

Please Note!

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March's Book Club has changed venues. Book Club will be at Suzy Jensen's house on March 1st and at Alissa'a on May 3rd. Please spread the news!

Books: January - May 2010

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January 4 - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (at Deborah's)
February 1 - The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (at April's) **talk to April to locate a copy from the discussion kit**
March 1 - Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (at Suzy's)
April 5 - Love Walked In by Marisa de los Santos (at Emily's)
May 3 - Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (at Alissa's)

Books September - December 2009

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September 14: Promise Me by Harlan Coben (at Amy's)
October 5: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame (at Joanna's)
November 2: An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina (at Trista's)
December 7: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan (at Anna's)