Bookclub

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Friend Laura organized an informal bookclub in early 2000 which we thoroughly enjoy. Meetings are about once a month at members homes or at a resturant or coffee shop. At meetings, besides eating, visiting, and discussing the book, we also add book titles that members suggest to the can, then randomly select the next book. (We do this two months ahead of time.) The person who submitted the title selected, does any background research and attempts to lead the discussion for that book Typically whoever is hosting provides dinner, but drinks and a light snack is fine. Sometimes the food follows the theme of the book. There are no rules, except to let the other members know the plan ahead of time, so they know whether to eat first.

Here are some photos taken at our gatherings. The left most photo is from Sept 2010. In the next photo (2006), Laura is wearing her "Boston" T-shirt because we were reading The Dark Tide about the great molasses flood in Boston. The following photo (2004) is from Bel Canto; we occasionally (rarely) dress to match the book. The photo on the far right (2003) was taken at the Barnes and Noble coffee shop. Click on any thumbnail to see a larger view.












Bookclub Book List

1

Feb 2000

The Doctor Digs a Grave by Robin Hathaway

2

Mar 2000

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be  Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch

3

Mar 2000

Three Tall Women by Edward Albee

4

Apr 2000

Life is So Good by George Dawson & Richard Glaubman

5

Jun 2000

The Moon and the Sun by Vonda Mc Intyre

6

Aug 2000

Lindburgh by A. Scott Berg

7

Sep 2000

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

8

Oct 2000

I Am the Clay by Chaim Potok

9

Nov 2000

War of the Rats by David Robbins

10

Dec 2000

After the Blue by Russel Like

11

Jan 2001

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

12

Feb 2001

The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles

13

Mar 2001

The Years with Laura Diaz by Carlos Fuentes

14

Apr 2001

On the Beach by Nevile Shute

15

May/Jun 2001

The French Connection by Robin Moore

16

Jul 2001

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

17

Aug/Sep 2001

Run with the Horsemen by Ferrol Sams

18

Oct 2001

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

19

Nov 2001

High Fidelity by Nick Hornsby

20

Dec 2001

A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis

21

Jan 2002

The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain

22

Feb 2002

Shipping News by  E. Annie Proulx

23

Apr 2002

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

24

Jun 2002

The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil

25

Jul 2002

'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

26

Aug 2002

Longitude by Dava Sobel

27

Sep 2002

The Circus at the Edge of the Earth by Charles Wilkins

28

Sep 2002

The Circus at the End of the World by Rosalind Brackenbury

29

Nov 2, 2002

Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson

30

Nov 30, 2002

Back When We Where Grownups by Anne Tyler

31

Jan 2003

The Tailor of Panama by John Le Carre

32

Feb 2003

Birdseed Cookies by Janis Jaquith

33

Mar 2003

Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth

34

Apr 2003

Water Witches by Chris Bohjalian

35

May 2003

The Last Jihad by Joel Rosenberg

36

Jun 2003

Founding Brothers by John Ellis  

37

Aug 2003

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that changed America by Erik Larson

38

Oct 2003

Seabiscuit by Laura Hiltenbrand

39

Dec 2003

Funny in Farsi: A Memior of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas

40

Dec 2003

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

41

Jan 2004

Sin Killer by Larry McMurtrie

42

Feb 2004

Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

43

Mar 2004

Waiting by Ha Jin

44

May 2004

Bell Canto by Ann Patchet

45

Jun 2004

Empires of Light by Jill Jonnes

46

Jul 2004

1965 Autobiography of Malcolm X

47

Aug 2004

Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexandra McCall Smith

48

Sept 2004

Rumpole and the Primrose Path by John Mortimer

49

Oct 2004

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

50

Nov 2004

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

51

Jan 2005

Orphans Preferred by Christopher Corbett

52

Feb 2005

Krakatoa by Simon Winchester

53

Mar 2005

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking

54

Apr 2005

Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

55

Jun 2005

The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

56

Aug 2005

The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs

57

Aug 2005

Decipher by Stel Pavlou

58

Oct 2005

Texas Ranger by N.A. Jennings

59

Oct 2005

The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker

60

Nov 2005

The Warpshot Chronicle by John Cheever

61

Jan 2006

The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

62

Feb 2006

Native Son by Richard Wright

63

Mar 2006

The Fisher King by Paule Marshal (alt. by Anthony Powell)

64

Apr 2006

The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon

65

May 2006

Ponder Heart by Eudora Welty

66

June 2006

God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson

67

July 2006

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 by Stephen Puleo

68

Sept 2006

Wolves Eat Dogs by Martin Guy Smith

69

Nov 2006

The Blind Assasin by Margaret Atwood

70

Dec 2006

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

71

Jan 2007

Dance of the Thunderdogs by Kirk Mitchell

72

Feb 2007

The Known World by Edward B. Jones

73

Mar 2007

March by Geraldine Brooks

74

Apr 2007

To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willes

75

May 2007

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction by Linda Gordon

76

June 2007

Empire Falls by Richard Russo

77

July 2007

Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh

78

Aug 2007

Fish Blood and Bones by Leslie Forbes

79

Oct 2007

The Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood

80

Nov 2007

Incantation by Alice Hoffman

81

Dec 2007

The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

82

Jan 2008

A Woman ln Jerusalem by A. B. Yehoshua & Hillel Halkin

83

Mar 2008

The Short Bus by Jonathan Mooney

84

Apr 2008

The Family That Couldn't Sleep by D. T. Max

85

May 2008

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

86

July 2008

Forever by Pete Hamill

87

Aug 2008

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel G. Marquez

88

Sept 2008

Calumet City by Charlie Newton

89

Oct 2008

Midwifes Tale by Lauren Thatcher Ulrich

90

Nov 2008

We have a choice of books --- The Big Sort:Why the Clustering of Like-Minded American Is Tearing Us Apart by Bill Bishop -or- Just How Stupide Are:Facing the Truth about the American Voter by Rick Shenkman

91

Dec 2008

Ordinary Love and Goodwill by Jane Smiley

92

Jan 2009

The Romanovs: The Final Chapter by R. K. Massie

93

Feb 2009

Atonement by Ian McEwen

94

Mar 2009

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

95

May 2009

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

96

June 2009

Last Night at the Lobster by Stewart O'Nan

97

Aug 2009

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

98

Dec 2009

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Lewis Menard

99

Jan 2010

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

100

Feb 2010

Rembrandt's Jews by Steven Nadler

101

Mar 2010

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin

102

May 2010

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

103

June 2010

Balzac and Little Chinese Seamstress by Dal Sijie

104

July 2010

Sweet Revenge by Diane Mott Davidson

105

Aug 2010

The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea

106

Sept 2010

Tinkers by Paul Harding

107

Nov 2010

Night Train by Martin Amis

108

Dec 2010

Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford

109

Jan 2011

Roughing It by Mark Twain

110

Feb 2011

The Frozen Rabbi by Steve Stern

111

Mar 2011

The Complete Persepolis by Majane Satrapi

112

Apr 2011

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

113

Jun 2011

The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner

114

Jul 2011

The Librarian by Larry Beinhart

115

Aug 2011

Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams

116

Oct 2011

Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations by Georgina Howell

117

Nov 2011

Testing the Current by William McPherson

118

Dec 2011

Talking it Over by Julian Barnes

119

Jan 2012

Afterlife by Paul Monette

120

Feb 2011

 

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