Book Club Reading List for 2011

Feb. 4:   Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver,   led and hosted by Margaret Leeds

March 4:  What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell, led and hosted by Dorothy Williams

April 1: Roses by Leila Meacham, led and hosted by Beth Weiss (the author may be invited to attend)

May 6: Missing You: Letters of Remembrance by Esther Scharlock Vexler, led and hosted by Robin Raquet  (At the Feb. meeting, Robin will bring the books for us to purchase or borrow. The author will attend the meeting!!)

June 3: Ted Kennedy: The Dream that Never Died by Edward Klein, led and hosted by Susan Shaw-Meadow

Sept. 9: Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women by Harriet Reisen, led by Betty Lynn Allen and hosted by Faye Hallford

Oct. 7: Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese , led by Carol Frere and hosted by Joan Mitchell

Nov. 4: Mary and O’Neill by Justin Cronin, led and hosted by Jerry Correu

Dec. 2: Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton, led and hosted by Beth Weiss

two more book suggestions

I reommend two additional books: Country Driving, A Journey Through China by Peter Hessler.
This book has gotten great reviews and was #24 on Amazon's recommended book list. Also,
I recommend The Faith Club, A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew - Three Women Search for
Understanding by Idilby, Oliver and Warner. This book "weaves the story of three women, their
three religions, and their urgent quest to understand one another". This seems so congruent
with our book club. See you Friday!
Faye

Happy New Year to everyone!

Let's see if in this new year our blog will work for our book group.
We will meet on Friday at noon at Carol's house to go over the reading list for 2011.

Here are the suggestions so far:

1. The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap between Rich and Poor... by Jacqueline Novogratz

2. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

3. Roses by Leila Meacham

4. Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese

5. Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton

6. Ted Kennedy: The Dream that never Died by Edward Klein

7. Stones into Schools by Greg Mortensen

8.The Passage by Justin Cronin

9. Mary and O'Neill by Justin Cronin

10. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

11. Freedom by Jonathon Franzen

 

something by:

Malcolm Gladwell

Philip Roth

John Irving

I took the liberty to make some links to webpages to read up on the suggestions.