October Reading Suggestions from Friday Favorites

May Meeting Reads

June Friday Favorites List

 

Our new list, hot off the presses.  A bit late, since Carol has been on vacation and the start of the summer is a busy time at the library!  But here it is finally.  In other news, the Friday Favorites book group has decided to continue meeting through the summer this year.  Our July meeting will be on July 11th at 11am (that's a lot of 11s).  We hope to see you there!

May Friday Favorites list

April Friday Favorites list

Friday Favorites - February meeting

Hi readers,
We celebrated the 2nd anniversary of our book sharing group on Friday, Feb. 7th.  It's hard to believe that we've been meeting that long, but it has been a fun 2 years talking about books and reading.  Our list this month is here, and I hope that you will join us next month and tell us about your favorite books, new or old!  We meet on the first Friday of each month at 11am.

 

Friday Favorites September 6th list

What People Are Reading Now— 
Recommendations from our Sept. 2013 book group meeting

 

FICTION

~ Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan

~ Death comes to Pemberley, by P. D. James

~ Joyland, by Stephen King

~ Palisades Park, by Alan Brennert

~ The Round House, by Louise Erdrich

~ The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller

NON-FICTION

~ Kinsey and Me, by Sue Grafton

~ Long Walk to Freedom, by Nelson Mandela

~ The Richard Burton Diaries, by Richard Burton

Our next meeting will be Friday, October 4th at 11am.  We hope you can join us and tell us about the book you're reading!

Friday Favorites June 7th meeting

What People Are Reading Now—

 Recommendations from our  June 2013 Friday Favorites Book Group meeting
 

 

FICTION

~The Beauty of Humanity Movement, by Camilla Gibb

~ Call me Zelda, by Erika Robuck

~A Different Sun, by Elaine Neil Orr

~ Fever, by Mary Beth Keane

~ Little Bee, by Chris Cleave

~ The Things that Keep us Here, by Carla Buckley

~Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, Therese Fowler

NON-FICTION

~ What my mother gave me : thirty-one women on the gifts that mattered most, by Elizabeth Benedict

~You Had me at Woof, by Julie Klam

We will be taking a break during the summer months, July and August.  Have a great summer everyone and we hope to see you at our first meeting of the fall on September 6th!

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.