Well, it's my bookclub night and Octoberfest theme. best laid plans and all. . .
- Thread starter angak
- Start date
cynupstateny
Well-known member
We started something a bit different this year in our club. After everyone has read the book
we have a discussion. The following week the local library has agreed to show the movie made from the book and we have another discussion.
Did Richard Russo's "Nobody's Fool". Loved both the book and movie.
we have a discussion. The following week the local library has agreed to show the movie made from the book and we have another discussion.
Did Richard Russo's "Nobody's Fool". Loved both the book and movie.
steve2-in-la
Well-known member
You musta been doing something wrong Marilyn because that's when I started up "the road to ruin."
sandi-in-hawaii
Well-known member
Wow, Ang, what a feast! And to think that you're doing it after work - amazing!
However, I did not see what you were going to be serving in that pumpkin pot of yours...
smileys/smile.gif
However, I did not see what you were going to be serving in that pumpkin pot of yours...
smileys/smile.gif
Our LONG list...
How to Make an American Quilt - Whitney Otto - 6.21
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson - 7.5
True North - Jill Ker Conway - 7.5
1000 Acres - Jane Smiley - 5.88
Therapy - David Lodge - 6.00
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver - 8.67
Mazel - Rebecca Goldstein - 7.6
The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton - 6.71
How Stella got Her Groove Back - Terry McMillan - 3.28
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier - 7.7
Rapture of Canaan - Sheri Reynolds - 7.38
The Blue Afternoon - William Boyd - 4.83
In Troubled Waters - Beverly Cole - 8.83
Life and Death in Shanghai - Nien Cheng - 7.71
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway - 5.56
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - 7.38
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells - 6.67
Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser - 4.67
In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien - 7.75
Are You Somebody? - Nuala O'Faolain - 6.13
What Girls Learn - Karin Cook - 4.89
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant - 8.28
The Fall of the Sparrow - Robert Hellenga - 7.1
Bird By Bird - Anne Lamott - 6.5
Foreign Correspondence - Geraldine Brooks - 7.67
The Sparrow - Maria Doria Russell - 8.89
Dakota - Kathleen Norris - 4.14
To the Wedding - John Berger - 6.0
A Hope in the Unseen - Ron Suskind - 8.56
The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama - 8.63
Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel - 5.89
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur S. Golden - 7.88
Kitchen Table Wisdom - Rachel Naomi Remen - 9.0
The Color of Water - James McBride - 8.5
A Personal History - Katherine Graham - 5.63
Callings - Gregg Michael Levoy - 5.8
Tales of the City (Vol. 1) - Armistead Maupin - 4.0
Sole Survivor - Derek Hansen - 8.75
See Jane Win - Sylvia Rimm - 5.22
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri - 8.63
Choclat - Joanne Harris - 8.00
A Gesture Life - Chang-Rae Lee - 6.88
Plainsong - Kent Haruf - 4.67
House of Sand and Fog - Vadim Perelman - 6.0
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest Gaines - 8.77
The Hours - Michael Cunningham (read along with Mrs. Dalloway) - 8.75
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee - 6.45
Ahab's Wife - Sena Jeter Naslund - 8.00
One Writer's Beginning - Eudora Welty - 7.00
Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier - 7.00
Zenzelle - J. Nozipo Maraire - 8.2
Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi - 8.5
Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton - 8.9's
Martyr's Crossing - Amy Wilentz -7.9
The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay - 8.05
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett - 8.41
In Harm's Way - Doug Stanton - 8.39
A Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks - 8.25
Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler - 8.89
Atonement - Ian McEwan - 8.81
The Friendly Persuasion - Jessamyn West - 6.05
Raising Fences - Michael Datcher - 5.81
Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk - 8.13
A Kiss for Maddalena - Christopher Castellani - 5.65
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - 7.95
Life of Pi - Yann Martel - 8.69
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk - 7.88
The Translator - John Crowley - 8.6
Women Who Risk - Marilyn Olsen
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi - 7.63
Blue Latitudes - Tony Horwitz - 5.58
The All of It - Jeanette Haien - 7.7
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson - 7.3
Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant - 7.78
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri - 9.33
Taken In - Beverly Cole - 6.5
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossenini - 9.38
Easter Island - Jennifer Vanderbes - 8.375
The Known World - Edward Jones - 7.56
The 6th Lamentation - William Brodrick - 8.23
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer - 5.35
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - 6.35
The Pillow Book - 5.63
Broken For You - Stephanie Kallos - 8.5
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss - 8.56
The Tender Bar: A Memoir - J.R. Moehringer - 8.05
Snow Flower & the Secret Fan - 8.5
A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel - 8.08
Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel - Marianne Wiggins - 8.17
Extremely Loud and Close - 8.25
Mountain Beyond Mountains - 9.2
The Positions - 7.17
Water for Elephants - 8.78
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - 8.3
The Book Thief - 9.55
Night Watch - 9.0
His Excellency George Washington - 8.13
Banker to the Poor - Muhammad Yunus - 7.59
My Antonia - Willa Cather - 8.78
In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden: A Novel - Kathleen Cambor - 8.5
Digging to America - Anne Tyler - 8.07
Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya - 7.0
Loving Frank - Nancy Horan - 7.86
The God of Animals - Ayrn Kyles - 7.68
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz - 6.75
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science,
Cities and the Modern World - Steven Johnson - 9.45
The Reluctant Fundmentalist - Mohsin Hamid - 8.1
The Highest Tide - Jim Lynch - 8.59
The Spectator Bird - Wallace Stegner - 9.04
Sin in the Second City - Karen Abott - 7.28
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout - 8.83
Stormy Weater - Paulette Jiles - 7.08
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery - 8.58
Skeltons at the Feast
The Help
The Bridge at San Luis Rey
Jamesland
How to Make an American Quilt - Whitney Otto - 6.21
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson - 7.5
True North - Jill Ker Conway - 7.5
1000 Acres - Jane Smiley - 5.88
Therapy - David Lodge - 6.00
The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver - 8.67
Mazel - Rebecca Goldstein - 7.6
The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton - 6.71
How Stella got Her Groove Back - Terry McMillan - 3.28
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier - 7.7
Rapture of Canaan - Sheri Reynolds - 7.38
The Blue Afternoon - William Boyd - 4.83
In Troubled Waters - Beverly Cole - 8.83
Life and Death in Shanghai - Nien Cheng - 7.71
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway - 5.56
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks - 7.38
The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells - 6.67
Martin Dressler - Steven Millhauser - 4.67
In the Lake of the Woods - Tim O'Brien - 7.75
Are You Somebody? - Nuala O'Faolain - 6.13
What Girls Learn - Karin Cook - 4.89
The Red Tent - Anita Diamant - 8.28
The Fall of the Sparrow - Robert Hellenga - 7.1
Bird By Bird - Anne Lamott - 6.5
Foreign Correspondence - Geraldine Brooks - 7.67
The Sparrow - Maria Doria Russell - 8.89
Dakota - Kathleen Norris - 4.14
To the Wedding - John Berger - 6.0
A Hope in the Unseen - Ron Suskind - 8.56
The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama - 8.63
Galileo's Daughter - Dava Sobel - 5.89
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur S. Golden - 7.88
Kitchen Table Wisdom - Rachel Naomi Remen - 9.0
The Color of Water - James McBride - 8.5
A Personal History - Katherine Graham - 5.63
Callings - Gregg Michael Levoy - 5.8
Tales of the City (Vol. 1) - Armistead Maupin - 4.0
Sole Survivor - Derek Hansen - 8.75
See Jane Win - Sylvia Rimm - 5.22
Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri - 8.63
Choclat - Joanne Harris - 8.00
A Gesture Life - Chang-Rae Lee - 6.88
Plainsong - Kent Haruf - 4.67
House of Sand and Fog - Vadim Perelman - 6.0
A Lesson Before Dying - Ernest Gaines - 8.77
The Hours - Michael Cunningham (read along with Mrs. Dalloway) - 8.75
Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee - 6.45
Ahab's Wife - Sena Jeter Naslund - 8.00
One Writer's Beginning - Eudora Welty - 7.00
Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier - 7.00
Zenzelle - J. Nozipo Maraire - 8.2
Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi - 8.5
Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton - 8.9's
Martyr's Crossing - Amy Wilentz -7.9
The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay - 8.05
Bel Canto - Ann Patchett - 8.41
In Harm's Way - Doug Stanton - 8.39
A Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks - 8.25
Back When We Were Grownups - Anne Tyler - 8.89
Atonement - Ian McEwan - 8.81
The Friendly Persuasion - Jessamyn West - 6.05
Raising Fences - Michael Datcher - 5.81
Pope Joan - Donna Woolfolk - 8.13
A Kiss for Maddalena - Christopher Castellani - 5.65
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe - 7.95
Life of Pi - Yann Martel - 8.69
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk - 7.88
The Translator - John Crowley - 8.6
Women Who Risk - Marilyn Olsen
Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi - 7.63
Blue Latitudes - Tony Horwitz - 5.58
The All of It - Jeanette Haien - 7.7
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson - 7.3
Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant - 7.78
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri - 9.33
Taken In - Beverly Cole - 6.5
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossenini - 9.38
Easter Island - Jennifer Vanderbes - 8.375
The Known World - Edward Jones - 7.56
The 6th Lamentation - William Brodrick - 8.23
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith - Jon Krakauer - 5.35
The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon - 6.35
The Pillow Book - 5.63
Broken For You - Stephanie Kallos - 8.5
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss - 8.56
The Tender Bar: A Memoir - J.R. Moehringer - 8.05
Snow Flower & the Secret Fan - 8.5
A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel - 8.08
Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel - Marianne Wiggins - 8.17
Extremely Loud and Close - 8.25
Mountain Beyond Mountains - 9.2
The Positions - 7.17
Water for Elephants - 8.78
The Memory Keeper's Daughter - 8.3
The Book Thief - 9.55
Night Watch - 9.0
His Excellency George Washington - 8.13
Banker to the Poor - Muhammad Yunus - 7.59
My Antonia - Willa Cather - 8.78
In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden: A Novel - Kathleen Cambor - 8.5
Digging to America - Anne Tyler - 8.07
Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo Anaya - 7.0
Loving Frank - Nancy Horan - 7.86
The God of Animals - Ayrn Kyles - 7.68
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz - 6.75
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science,
Cities and the Modern World - Steven Johnson - 9.45
The Reluctant Fundmentalist - Mohsin Hamid - 8.1
The Highest Tide - Jim Lynch - 8.59
The Spectator Bird - Wallace Stegner - 9.04
Sin in the Second City - Karen Abott - 7.28
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout - 8.83
Stormy Weater - Paulette Jiles - 7.08
The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery - 8.58
Skeltons at the Feast
The Help
The Bridge at San Luis Rey
Jamesland
patbastrop
Well-known member
We are reading Matthew Pearl's The Poe Shadow this month and will be going
to the University of Texas' Poe exhibit next week. It is his bicentennial. Our Bastrop Opera House is doing a play based on Poe's life and works this month too. I love the idea about the 10 best list. But how to condense a lifetime of reading to only 10? Our next selection is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Society.
to the University of Texas' Poe exhibit next week. It is his bicentennial. Our Bastrop Opera House is doing a play based on Poe's life and works this month too. I love the idea about the 10 best list. But how to condense a lifetime of reading to only 10? Our next selection is The Guernsey Literary and Potato Society.
I ended up serving it anyway--powdered sugar is magic---and it was the hit of desserts. go figure
I told them I made the back-up because I thought the strudel was not servable---but it was fine afterall. Julia Child says---never apologize, just serve it, so I did!
more of a method
my apologies to Marilyn's Mom who makes the real thing)
basically. I took about 6 large sheets of filo(or 12 smaller sheets which I bought by mistake, overlapping 2 at a time to make a larger surface), stack on a piece of parchment and butter each sheet as you stack it. for the filling I use a shortcut---1 can of apple pie filling, 2 apples peeled and in eighths sliced very thin, 1/2 c dried cranberries, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 c chopped pecans. I put the pie filling in a bowl and cut up the apples in it a bit. then add the fresh apples, cranberries and cinnamon. spread filling over filo sheets and sprinkle with pecans, leaving about 2 inches border on the sides and about 8 inches on the bottom side. start rolling up the strudel, using the parchment to help with the rolling by lifting it and gently folding over. when you get to the bottom of the roll with the large border, just roll it over to complete the roll. this extra dough should be on top for a nice crispy finish. fold in the ends to the underneath. make 4 slits on top for steam to come out. bake on a parchment lined cookie sheet at 375 for about 40 minutes---keep checking it until it's very light brown. some filling may ooze out, but once cut and sprinkled generously with powdered sugar it will be OK.
I thought mine was a failure because it looked soggy upon cooling, but once it was completely cooled, the top was crisp again. I did not leave such a generous bottom border, and I think that's why I had quite a bit of filling ooze out and not the crispiest crust that I wanted. that extra turn of dough should keep the filling in better and gives more crispy filo dough for the top. I had to use the smaller sheets, and this amount of filling made 2 strudels. I baked them both on 1 cookie sheet, but next time I would bake them on seperate cookie sheets for better browning. I hope this makes sense.
I told them I made the back-up because I thought the strudel was not servable---but it was fine afterall. Julia Child says---never apologize, just serve it, so I did!
more of a method
my apologies to Marilyn's Mom who makes the real thing)basically. I took about 6 large sheets of filo(or 12 smaller sheets which I bought by mistake, overlapping 2 at a time to make a larger surface), stack on a piece of parchment and butter each sheet as you stack it. for the filling I use a shortcut---1 can of apple pie filling, 2 apples peeled and in eighths sliced very thin, 1/2 c dried cranberries, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/2 c chopped pecans. I put the pie filling in a bowl and cut up the apples in it a bit. then add the fresh apples, cranberries and cinnamon. spread filling over filo sheets and sprinkle with pecans, leaving about 2 inches border on the sides and about 8 inches on the bottom side. start rolling up the strudel, using the parchment to help with the rolling by lifting it and gently folding over. when you get to the bottom of the roll with the large border, just roll it over to complete the roll. this extra dough should be on top for a nice crispy finish. fold in the ends to the underneath. make 4 slits on top for steam to come out. bake on a parchment lined cookie sheet at 375 for about 40 minutes---keep checking it until it's very light brown. some filling may ooze out, but once cut and sprinkled generously with powdered sugar it will be OK.
I thought mine was a failure because it looked soggy upon cooling, but once it was completely cooled, the top was crisp again. I did not leave such a generous bottom border, and I think that's why I had quite a bit of filling ooze out and not the crispiest crust that I wanted. that extra turn of dough should keep the filling in better and gives more crispy filo dough for the top. I had to use the smaller sheets, and this amount of filling made 2 strudels. I baked them both on 1 cookie sheet, but next time I would bake them on seperate cookie sheets for better browning. I hope this makes sense.
lana-in-fl
Well-known member
Oh! Thank you for this link. I'm just like Mrs. G
except that my daughters got their library cards at the ages of 3 months and 4 months. My elder daughter remembers the library in Germiston with much more clarity than the other buildings in her life up to the age of 5. And I'm so excited to find someone else who loves books like "A Girl of the Limberlost" and "Wolves of Willoughby Chase". My daughters and I have a almost a private language based on the books we all love, but even they have refused to read these two. We even have 4 copies of our favorite translation of "Swiss Family Robinson", one for each of us and an extra in hardcover (because we couldn't find it for years). My worst fear about dying is that the girls will fight trying to get the books that they both love.
except that my daughters got their library cards at the ages of 3 months and 4 months. My elder daughter remembers the library in Germiston with much more clarity than the other buildings in her life up to the age of 5. And I'm so excited to find someone else who loves books like "A Girl of the Limberlost" and "Wolves of Willoughby Chase". My daughters and I have a almost a private language based on the books we all love, but even they have refused to read these two. We even have 4 copies of our favorite translation of "Swiss Family Robinson", one for each of us and an extra in hardcover (because we couldn't find it for years). My worst fear about dying is that the girls will fight trying to get the books that they both love.
barbara-in-va
Well-known member
Wow Ang! That is an impressive meal!! You have a very lucky bookclub!