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.

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

Tipsy Book Review

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.

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

Suggestions for new books

It's that time again when we pick new books! Please think about some of your favorites and send me (Emily) a list of ideas. We will pick books for the second half of the year at our July meeting. As always, please only suggest books you are very confident about promoting AND do a quick survey of the library holdings to ascertain that it is one we can feasibly get a hold of for free. Thanks!

FICTION
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Fault in our Stars by John Green

The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman

Norman Tuttle on the last frontier: a novel in stories by Tom Bodett

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce

NON-FICTION

Better: A Surgeons's Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande
Bomb: the Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon by Steve Sheinkin
The End of your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence by Geoffery Canada
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

Why Do they act that way? A survival guide to the adolescent brain for you and your teen by David Walsh

Less than a week until book club....