January

I will be hosting January book club, and we'll be reading A Girl Named Zippy, by Haven Kimmel. This is a charming, delightful, and hilarious memoir, one of my favorite books I've read all year. If you're not able to get it at the library, there are several copies available at the SLC library if anyone wants me to get some extra copies. Book club will probably be on January 12.

Last Saturday's book club at Sarah's was great...I think we had a good discussion on The Ultimate Gift and a fun time watching the movie. I hope everyone has a merry Christmas!

Great quotes

These are a couple of my favorites quotes from Persuasion:

"She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! alas! she must confess to herself that she was not wise yet." (Ch. VII)

"We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment's inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness." (Ch. X)

These make me smile wryly and shake my head knowingly.

P.S. Thank you to Leslie for hosting a great discussion and making an awesome dinner!

Persuasion

For those of you that won't be able to come to our discussion on Saturday (Persuasian by Jane Austen), post your thoughts and comments here. Let's see if we can get a good discussion going.

October Book Club

Jenny has kindly offered to host book club on October 13th. We will be reading Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie. Very appropriate for October. :)

If any of you have ideas for coming months, please let me know. It is always nice to plan ahead.

Book lists on the sidebar

I have posted the lists of the books this group has read over the years (way before I ever got here!) - thanks to Sarah for keeping track of them all. The lists are now linked over in the sidebar for quick reference.

We don't have a book lined up for October. Would anyone like to volunteer?

Books discussed 2006

Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens (Sarah – January 2006)
The Five Love Languages – Dr. Gary Chapman (Diane – February 2006)
The Persian Pickle Club – Sandra Dallas (Becky – March 2006)
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte (Gina – April 2006)
Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie (Trudy – May 2006)
1776 – David McCullough (Jenny – June 2006)
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins (Sarah – July 2006)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare (Leslie – August 2006)
Hamlet – Shakespeare (Sarah – September 2006)
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain (Gina – October 2006)
River Secrets - Shannon Hale (Valerie – November 2006)
The Diary of Anne Frank (Kim – December 2006)

Books discussed 2005

Daniel Deronda – George Eliot (Sarah – January 2005)
Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution – Natalie Bober (Diane – February 2005)
Goose Girl – Shannon Hale (Valerie – March 2005)
The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency – Alexander McCall Smith (Leslie – April 2005)
Because of Winn Dixie – Kate DeCamillo (Gina – May 2005)
The Bronze Bow – Elizabeth George Speare (Becky – June 2005)
Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux (Suzanne – July 2005)
Harry Potter no. 6 – J.K. Rowling (Trudy – August 2005)
The Way We Live Now – Anthony Trollope (Jenny – September 2005)
A Northern Light – Jennifer Donnelly (Valerie – October 2005)
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley (Sarah – November 2005)

Books discussed 2004

The Chosen – Chaim Potok (Sarah – November 2003)
Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver (Diane – January 2004)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte (Jenny – February 2004)
Goose Girl – Shannon Hale (Valerie – March 2004)
House of the Scorpion – Nancy Farmer (Leslie – April 2004)
Their Eyes were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston (Sarah - May 2004)
All Creatures Great and Small – James Herriot (Valerie – June 2004)
Glimpses – Marjorie Pay Hinckley (Trudy – August 2004)
Animal Farm – George Orwell (Gina – September 2004)
The Blue Sword – Robin McKinley (Jenny – November 2004)

Here's to reading

Thanks for setting this up, Robin. It's great!
I'm sorry I missed book club last Saturday (I was wandering around Seattle, which was fabulous). I hope you all had a good discussion on "Peace Like a River."
Do we have a book chosen for October?

Welcome!

Welcome to our book club's official site. As we all know, nothing is official until it's on the web :). Hopefully this will be a fun place for us to chat about the books we read. Whether you missed the last book club get-together and want to know what was discussed, you want to share some additional insight, or throw out ideas for books to read in the future, this will be a way to keep it all documented.

If you have any strong opinions about the design of this blog, or good ideas for the title, feel free to let me, Robin, know and I can make changes. Hope to see you all here!