NFRC: Can you tell me what you are reading in your bookclub?

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deb-in-mi

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I'm in charge of coming up with all the titles. Thank you!

We just finished: The Star of the Sea by Joseph O'Connor

Some others we'll be reading:

“Heft” by Liz Moore

“Behind The Beautiful Forever: Life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity”

by Katherine Boo

“Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend” by Matthew Dicks

“The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry” by Rachel Joyce

“The Twelve Tribes of Hattie” by Ayana Mathis

“The Dovekeepers” by Alice Hoffman

 
I picked our May book, Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake. a memoir by Anna Quindlen

January was Wild, by Cheryl Strayed. Pacific Coast Trail adventure. real life. we liked it
Feb, Snowflower and the Secret Fan. I hated it. too depressing.
Mar, Book of a Thousand Days. Young adult fairy tale. I didn't like it at all. too much abuse of women, again.
Apr, The Forsyte Saga. classic old tale. most of us are watching the DVD.
May, my book
Jun, Still Alice. about the descent into Ahlzheimers. another depressing book.
Jul, German Boy. memoir about being a boy in Germany and fleeing from the Russians. My uncle will be visiting and he was a "German Boy" over there and will tell us his own tale. looking forward to this one.
Aug, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt.

that's all we have picked so far. not a good reading year for me----not much into depressing books these days.

 
We're reading Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman the true story of 2 women in 1889

who travel round the world to see if they could beat Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg!! Lots of stuff about the beginning of women's lib. I am about half way and am really enjoying it! I read the Jules Verne book first, a quick fun read. Also, Diane Rhem just did an interview with Goodman and he added lots of little tidbits that I haven't (yet?) read in the book.

 
Here are our next ten

19th Wife – David Ebershoff
Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry – Rachel Joyce
Catherine the Great – Robert K. Massie
The Yellow Birds – Kevin Powers
Gone Girl – Gillian Flynn
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin –Erik Larson
Beyond the Beautiful Forevers – Katherine Boo
Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship – Jon Meacham
Ahab’s Wife – Sena Jeter Naslund

 
I belong to 4- here are the titles for the next few months

1. General reading - The Kitchen House-Kathleen Grissom
, Anil's Ghost- Michael Ondaatje - liked it
Canada-Richard Ford,
The Year of the Hare - Pansilian;
The expats-Chris Pavone
In the Garden of the Beasts -Larsen - I Have READ THIS IN ANOTHER GROUP AND TOTALLY RECOMMEND IT

2. 20th Century LIt
Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai
Moo- Jane Smiley - I like her
Brideshead Revisited - Waugh

3. 21st Century Lit
The Chemistry of Tears - Peter Carey (I love Carey but this
one is not my favorite- still reading)
The FAlls - Joyce Carol Oates
The Unlikely Pligramage of Horace Fry

4. All Nonfiction
Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Boo
God's War -A new history of the Crusades -Christopher
Tyerman

 
This was our last book club read: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

This is an amazing true story about Henrietta's cancer cells which were taken from her - without permission - in 1951. Amazingly they multiplied in the lab and are still used today in research around the world. Without knowing it, your life has probably been impacted by Henrietta's gift. You will also read about Henrietta and her family and how they were affected by the Hela cells.

This is a very engaging book and am delighted that I read it. Rebecca Skloot is a fantastic writer.

 
I'm reading "Canada" right now - very well written!

the author also wrote "Independence Day" which one, I think, the Pullitzer. I just downloaded it on my ipad and will save it for when we travel next:)

 
Here are some other good ones

New York by Edward Rutherford
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett
The Lace Makers of Glenmara by Heather Barberi
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

 
I am skyping in on my old club in Bastrop.

This month they are reading "We Have to Talk About Kevin" and I just can't bring myself to read it.

 
I listened to it and the narration was brilliant - but it is definitely a hard one

to read with all the school tragedies.

 
I though the previews for Cirque du Soleil's "World's Away" mirrored that book a lot.

Having seen 5 Cirque's in person, I was disappointed in that movie. Even 3-D didn't provide the immediacy of their live performances. But it did make me want to see the live versions of Ka and O!

 
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