Friday Favorites May meeting

What People Are Reading Now

Recommendations from our  May 2013 Friday Favorites Book Group meeting

FICTION 

~ Blindness, by Jose Saramago

~ Habits of the House, by Fay Weldon

~ The Imposter Bride,by Nancy Richler

~ Telling the Bees, by Peggy Hesketh

~ The Painted Girls, by Cathy Marie Buchanan

NON-FICTION

~ Bossypants, by Tina Fey

~ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot

~ My Ideal Bookshelf, by Jane Mount

~ Tiny Beautiful Things, by Cheryl Strayed

Next meeting: Friday, June 7th @ 11am

Friday Favorites-April 2013 meeting

What People Are Reading Now

Recommendations from our  April  2013 Friday Favorites Book Group meeting

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FICTION 

~ The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein

~ Flight Behavior, by Barbara Kingsolver

~ God’s Mountain, by Erri De Luca

~ The Midwife of Hope River, by Patricia Harman

~ See Now Then, by Jamaica Kincaid

~The 13 Clocks, by James Thurber

~White Dog Fell from the Sky, by Eleanor Morse

NON-FICTION

~ How to Live : a Search for Wisdom from Old People (while they are still

on this earth), by Henry Alford

~ Island Practice : cobblestone rash,underground Tom, and other adventures of a Nantucket doctor,

by Pam Belluck

~My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor

Our next meeting will be Friday, May 3rd at 11am.  See you there!

Friday Favorites -- March meeting recommendations

Hi all,

We had another productive exchange of great reading ideas on March 1st.  The invitation is always there for those of you who have not already attended one of our book sharing group meetings.  For more information about the group, look at earlier posts on this blog, and for a complete list of the books that have been recommended so far, you can look at the sidebar.  

Happy reading, and then come to our next meeting, on Friday April 5 @ 11am and tell us about what you read!

What People Are Reading Now—Recommendations from our  March 2013 Friday Favorites Book Group meeting
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FICTION 

~Art In America, Ron McLarty

~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain

~The Cove, Ron Rash

~The House I Loved, Tatiana de Rosnay

~Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

~Light on Snow, Anita Shreve

~Lost Memory of Skin, Russell Banks

~Lucia, Lucia, Adriana Trigiani

~Perla, Carolina De Robertis

~Pilate’s Wife, Antoinette May

~Plautus in the Convent,

Conrad Ferdinand

~Schroder, Amity Gaige

~The Suspect, Robert Crais

~The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, C. Alan Bradley

~The Uninvited Guests, Sadie Jones

NON-FICTION

~The Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt

Friday Favorites - the Anniversary Meeting

We had a great meeting on Friday Feb.1st.  It was the one year anniversary of the group and we celebrated with a special birthday cake and a wonderful selection of books.  Everyone was  passionate about their choices.  Below is the list, and coming soon is a complete list of all the books we've discussed and shared to date.  It's very impressive!
New members are always welcome!  We meet on the 1st Friday of the month-next month that's March 1st at 11am. 

What People Are Reading Now—the Anniversary List!

Recommendations from our  Feb. 2013 Friday Favorites Book Group meeting

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FICTION 

• Ahab’s Wife, Sena Jeter Naslund

• The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak

• Illuminations: a novel of Hildegard von Bingen, Mary Sharratt

• The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared, Jonas Jonasson

• Requiem, Frances Itani

• Serena, Ron Rash

• The Tale of Genji, Shikibu Murasaki

• Y, Marjorie Celona

NON-FICTION

• Elsewhere: a memoir, Richard Russo

• Life below Stairs: true lives of Edwardian servants, Alison Maloney

• A Severe Mercy, SheldonVanauken

  

Thanks to all attending for a rousing good time!

January Reading Suggestions from BYOB (and we mean Book) Meeting/Friday Favorites

What People Are Reading Now! 

Recommendations from our  Jan. 2013

Friday Favorites Book Group meeting
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FICTION  

• · Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy, translation by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky
  

• · The Bat Poet, Randall Jarrell

• · The Cove, Ron Rash

• · Fox Tracks, Rita Mae Brown

• · Sand Dollar, Sebastian Cole

• · Tinkers, Paul Harding

NON-FICTION

• · I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had, Tony Danza

• · Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain

• · You Are Here, Thích Nhá̂t Hạnh

Next meeting is Feb. 1 @ 11am.  Please join us for a great chat about books, and bring a book to share with the group.  This month's meeting will be our one year anniversary. Maybe we'll have cake to celebrate!  If you have any questions abou the group, please call the library at 245-7686.

December BYOBook (Friday Favorites) Meeting

Hi all, we're just getting caught up with our latest book group meeting suggestion lists. Here are the results from our December meeting, if you are looking for some reading suggestions. Recommendations from the January 11th meeting coming soon.

Happy Reading!

What People Are Reading Now!

Recommendations from our 12/7 Friday Favorites Book Group meeting
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FICTION 
-This is How you Lose Her, Juno Diaz

-Blasphemy, Sherman Alexie

-Safe from the Sea, Peter Geye

-The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton

-Books by Shirley Jackson

-Bound, Sally Gunning

-The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
-The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

NON-FICTION

-The Art of Mindful Living & Being Peace, Thích Nhá̂t Hạnh

-Hello Goodbye Hello: a circle of 101 Remarkable Meetings, Craig Brown

-Fatal Vision, Joe McGinnis

-A Wilderness of Error, Errol Morris

Next meeting:
Jan. 11 @ 11am

Friday Favorites October meeting

We had a small but fun group at our monthly meeting, and lots of interesting books to talk about.  Also lots of good snacks to eat (thanks Joan and Nancy for bringing some treats).   Books recommended this month are:

 FICTION 

-Flight from Berlin, by David John

-Gone Missing, by Linda Castillo

-Margherita Dolce Vita, by Stefano Benni

-The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco

NON-FICTION

-Bill and Hillary: the marriage, by Christopher Andersen

-The Hare with the Amber Eyes: A Family’s Century of Love and Loss, by

Edmund de Waal

-NurtureShock: New Thinking about Children, by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman

Join us for our next meeting on Friday, Nov. 2nd at 11am.