October 2011 Book

The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins.
Judy's house on Oct. 24 at 7:00
Wow! Just finished - 1st book in many months. Liked it, but disturbing. Readers guide questions.

August 2011 Book

Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir. Will be @ Ann Christy's, Tuesday, August 16 @ 7 PM
Rescheduled for September.

Book for June 2011

Elise says thanks to everybody who came out to discuss Main Street. The consensus was we needed a cheat sheet of characters to make the book more readable.

We chose a more juicy, summer read for June, called The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory. We're meeting on June 22 at Linda's at 7:00. See you there!

Link to website

The Help - film

The Help is out on film this August.
Reference on IMDB

Main Street - book for May 2011

See how I can do with this book! Have it downloaded to my iPad. Have not started reading it yet. Have heard of this book through the years.
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis- The book is about small town life and Lewis actually based it on Sauk Centre. Their high school team name is still the Main Streeters today. Other small towns in Minnesota banned the book because its portrayal of small town life is not too flattering.

Here is literature guide.

Book club set for Thursday, May 5 @ Elise's. Those with e-readers, the book is a free download!

Staggerford - book for April 2011

The book for March 2011 was Staggerford, by Jon Hassler. I have yet to finish this book! Here is link to article on Jon Hassler.

The Thirteenth Tale - book for February, 2011

February 2011 Book:

Did not read this book, and was unable to go to the discussion, so not sure what people thought of it.

One could say I am obsessed with Albert Einstein. I would like to know how would our current educational system handle a student like Einstein. I have the Einstein quote of the day on my google home page.

I have a biography on good ol Albert, but it's much too detailed on his science 'stuff' for me to understand. So I thought this book would be a fun one for our book club. Was not met with accolades.

Here is a link from NPR that got me interested in the book.

Updated List of Books

Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
The Secret Life of Bees- Sue Monk Kidd
Persian Pickle Club- Sandra Dallas
My Sister's Keeper- Jodi Picoult
The Giver- Lois Lowry
The Good Earth- Pearl S. Buck
Time Travelers Wife- Audrey Niffenegger
Waiting for White Horses- Nathan Jorgenson
What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day- Pearl Cleage
The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseni
The History of Love- Nicole Krauss
Pope Joan, a Novel- Donna W Cross
Wicked- Gregory Maguire
The Catcher in the Rye- JD Salinger
Big Stone Gap- Adriana Trigiana
Shoot the Moon- Billie Letts
The Red Tent- Anita Diamant
The Winter of Our Discontent- John Steinbeck
Broken For You- Stephanie Kallos
Home To Harmony- Phillip Gulley
Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston
Snowflower and the Secret Fan- Lisa See
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou
In the Fall- Jeffrey Lent
Year of Wonder- Geraldine Brooks
Iron Lake- William Kent Krueger
The Handmaids Tale- Margaret Atweed
The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
1000 White Women- Jim Fergus
Until They Bring the Streetcars Back- Stanley Gordon West
Moloki- Alan Brennert
Poisonwood Bible- Barbara Kingsolver
Montana 1948- Larry Watson
Running With Scissors- Augustan Burroughs
The Kitchen Boy- Robert Alexander
Two Old Women- Velma Wallis
The Painted Drum- Louise Erdrich
My Antonia- Willa Cather
Those Who Save Us- Jenna Blum
Cape Ann- Faith Sullivan
The Count of Monte Cristo- Alexandre Dumas
The Count, part 2 Alexandre Dumas
The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo- Steig Larsson
The Help- Kathryn Stockett
The Wednesday Sisters- Meg Waite Clayton
Driving Mr. Albert- Michael Paterniti
The Thirteenth Tale- Diane Setterfield