I love quilts. My grandmother was a quilt maker. She made quilts for family and friends. When I was a baby my grandmother made a quilt for me. It is a beautiful flower garden. This pattern has six sided patches and edged with pale pink cloth. It is a beautiful reminder of my grandmother who died many years ago.
I also included in my storytimes my love of quilts. For second grade I read
The Keeping Quilt by Patricia Polacco. For an activity the second graders made a quilt collage cutting out pictures from catalogs. The quilt is a nine square with each square being 2". I made 2" templates from oaktag. Awhile ago I have limited space in the library to show the students work so I would make a "clothesline" with yarn and taped it to the shelves. Then, I would hang the quilts with small clothespins. It was a great activity. I would collect catalogs from Oriental Trading, Colorful Images, Upstart, and Demco. When we moved to a big beautiful library I also did the same story time but made the "clotheslines" and quilts on our large bulletin board.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Here is our Book Club selections for November through February Book Selections.
I also added our other books for consideration in the future.
November through February Book Selections Plus More
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time,
Christopher Boone is a fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a great deal about math and very little about human beings. When he finds his neighbor’s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his world upside down. 240p.
www.readinggroupguides.com/.../curious_incident_dog1.asp
December Selection- Norma
Pearlman, Ann, The Christmas Cookie Club, Twelve closest girlfriends gather in the evening with batches of beautifully wrapped homemade cookies. Everyone has to bring a dessert. http://books.simonandschuster.com/Christmas-Cookie-Club/Ann-Pearlman/9781439158845/reading_group_guide - 55k - 274p.
January-Ellen
Hiassen, Carl, Skinny Dip, Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who does t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he’s found a way doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner into the night-dark Atlantic. Unfortunately for Chaz, his wife doesn’t die in the fall. 512p.ary
February -Kris
Lupton, Rosamund, Sister, When her mom calls to tell her that Tess, her younger sister, is missing, Bee returns home to London on the first flight. She expects to find Tess and give her the usual lecture, the bossy big sister scolding her flighty baby sister for taking off without letting anyone know her plans. 366p. www.rosamundlupton.com Check under Sister and go Reading Group Questions.
Pilcher, Rosamund, Winter Solstice, Elfrida Phipps's untroubled life in a Hampshire village is cut to shreds when members of her neighbor's family die in a car crash, but, in a way this tragedy redeems her life. The warmth of this English domestic novel is reinforced by its closely delineated characters. Even Horace, the faithful dog, comes alive for us. 512p.
Simonson, Helen, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Retired British Army Officer Major Ernest Pettigrew has learned that his only brother has died. The doorbell rings Mrs. Ali, Pakistani shopkeeper has come to the door to collect the newspaper bill. She touched by his grief, she leads him into the living room and makes a cup of tea and offers him words of Comfort. A friendship blossoms. 384p.www.litlovers.com/.../13.../610-major-pettigrews-last-stand-simonson
Skloot, Rebecca, The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks, a poor Southern tobacco farmer, was buried in an unmarked grave sixty years ago. Yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medical research. Known to science as HeLa, the first "immortal" human cells grown in culture are still alive today, and have been bought and sold by the millions. Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to East Baltimore today, where Henrietta's family struggles with her legacy. 381p.www.gobigread.wisc.edu/Discussion-Toolkit/Questions2011.pdf
Patchett, Ann, State of Wonder, When her co-worker dies in the Amazon Marina Singh, a pharmaceutical researcher, retraces his step to find out what exactly happened.www.litlovers.com/reading guides
Verghese, Abraham, Cutting for Stone, This first novel involves the trials of a medical family caught up in the turmoil of Ethiopia. 560p. www.litlovers.com/reading guides
Goodwin, Daisy, The American Heiress, Cora Cash is a spirited heiress who travel to England at the turn of the 19th century to find a titled husband. 480p
Stone, Robert, A Flag for Sunrise, is an emotional, dramatic and philosophical novel about Americans drawn into a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. and philosophical novel about Americans drawn into a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. 448p.
Walls, Jeannette, The Glass Castle. This is Jeannette Walls’s award-winning memoir of resilience amid a deeply dysfunctional childhood. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want to responsibility of raising a family. 304p. www.litlovers.com/readingguides
Walls, Jeannette, Half Broke Horses, a True-Life Novel, Lily Casey Smith, this novel's feisty Texas protagonist, is a frontier teacher, a rancher, a rodeo rider, a poker player, and bootlegger.288p. www.litlovers.com/readingguides
Blum, Jenna, Those who Save Us A professor’s mother refuses to talk to her daughter about her life in Germany during WWII, even though the daughter is interviewing survivors and writing a book. 496p. ReadingGroupGuides.com
Mullen, Thomas, The Last Town on Earth Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced–the 1918 flu epidemic. 432p.
ReadingGroupGuides.com
Monroe, Mary Alice Time is a River Breast cancer survivor Mia Landan returns home to find her husband in bed with another woman. Still weak from the cancer treatments, and not ready to make decisions about her failed marriage, Mia asks Belle Carson, a fly-fishing guide and the head of Casting for Recovery, if she can stay in Belle’s isolated mountain cabin. 384p.books.simonschuster.com
Roberts, Shelia, Love in Bloom, A funny, inspiring women's fiction novel about three women who share neighboring plots in a community garden and change each other's lives forever. 366p. readinggroupguides.com
Roberts, Shelia, Small Change, "At their weekly craft group meeting, Rachel, Jessica and Tiffany admit they share a difficult secret: they're all struggling with major financial problems. 352p.ReadingGroupGuides
Strout, Elizabeth, Olive Kitteridge, Olive Kitteridge is the kind of woman you would duck across the street to avoid meeting. She's abrasive as sandpaper rubbed across a scab and unapologetically rude. Now retired, she taught seventh-grade math in the small Maine town of Crosby for years, earning a reputation as the mean teacher who leaves her students flustered and trembling. 304p. http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/13-fiction
.
I also added our other books for consideration in the future.
November through February Book Selections Plus More
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time,
Christopher Boone is a fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a great deal about math and very little about human beings. When he finds his neighbor’s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his world upside down. 240p.
www.readinggroupguides.com/.../curious_incident_dog1.asp
December Selection- Norma
Pearlman, Ann, The Christmas Cookie Club, Twelve closest girlfriends gather in the evening with batches of beautifully wrapped homemade cookies. Everyone has to bring a dessert. http://books.simonandschuster.com/Christmas-Cookie-Club/Ann-Pearlman/9781439158845/reading_group_guide - 55k - 274p.
January-Ellen
Hiassen, Carl, Skinny Dip, Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who does t know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he’s found a way doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard from a cruise liner into the night-dark Atlantic. Unfortunately for Chaz, his wife doesn’t die in the fall. 512p.ary
February -Kris
Lupton, Rosamund, Sister, When her mom calls to tell her that Tess, her younger sister, is missing, Bee returns home to London on the first flight. She expects to find Tess and give her the usual lecture, the bossy big sister scolding her flighty baby sister for taking off without letting anyone know her plans. 366p. www.rosamundlupton.com Check under Sister and go Reading Group Questions.
Pilcher, Rosamund, Winter Solstice, Elfrida Phipps's untroubled life in a Hampshire village is cut to shreds when members of her neighbor's family die in a car crash, but, in a way this tragedy redeems her life. The warmth of this English domestic novel is reinforced by its closely delineated characters. Even Horace, the faithful dog, comes alive for us. 512p.
Simonson, Helen, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Retired British Army Officer Major Ernest Pettigrew has learned that his only brother has died. The doorbell rings Mrs. Ali, Pakistani shopkeeper has come to the door to collect the newspaper bill. She touched by his grief, she leads him into the living room and makes a cup of tea and offers him words of Comfort. A friendship blossoms. 384p.www.litlovers.com/.../13.../610-major-pettigrews-last-stand-simonson
Skloot, Rebecca, The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks, a poor Southern tobacco farmer, was buried in an unmarked grave sixty years ago. Yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medical research. Known to science as HeLa, the first "immortal" human cells grown in culture are still alive today, and have been bought and sold by the millions. Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to East Baltimore today, where Henrietta's family struggles with her legacy. 381p.www.gobigread.wisc.edu/Discussion-Toolkit/Questions2011.pdf
Patchett, Ann, State of Wonder, When her co-worker dies in the Amazon Marina Singh, a pharmaceutical researcher, retraces his step to find out what exactly happened.www.litlovers.com/reading guides
Verghese, Abraham, Cutting for Stone, This first novel involves the trials of a medical family caught up in the turmoil of Ethiopia. 560p. www.litlovers.com/reading guides
Goodwin, Daisy, The American Heiress, Cora Cash is a spirited heiress who travel to England at the turn of the 19th century to find a titled husband. 480p
Stone, Robert, A Flag for Sunrise, is an emotional, dramatic and philosophical novel about Americans drawn into a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. and philosophical novel about Americans drawn into a small Central American country on the brink of revolution. 448p.
Walls, Jeannette, The Glass Castle. This is Jeannette Walls’s award-winning memoir of resilience amid a deeply dysfunctional childhood. When sober, Jeannette’s brilliant and charismatic father captured his children’s imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn’t want to responsibility of raising a family. 304p. www.litlovers.com/readingguides
Walls, Jeannette, Half Broke Horses, a True-Life Novel, Lily Casey Smith, this novel's feisty Texas protagonist, is a frontier teacher, a rancher, a rodeo rider, a poker player, and bootlegger.288p. www.litlovers.com/readingguides
Blum, Jenna, Those who Save Us A professor’s mother refuses to talk to her daughter about her life in Germany during WWII, even though the daughter is interviewing survivors and writing a book. 496p. ReadingGroupGuides.com
Mullen, Thomas, The Last Town on Earth Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced–the 1918 flu epidemic. 432p.
ReadingGroupGuides.com
Monroe, Mary Alice Time is a River Breast cancer survivor Mia Landan returns home to find her husband in bed with another woman. Still weak from the cancer treatments, and not ready to make decisions about her failed marriage, Mia asks Belle Carson, a fly-fishing guide and the head of Casting for Recovery, if she can stay in Belle’s isolated mountain cabin. 384p.books.simonschuster.com
Roberts, Shelia, Love in Bloom, A funny, inspiring women's fiction novel about three women who share neighboring plots in a community garden and change each other's lives forever. 366p. readinggroupguides.com
Roberts, Shelia, Small Change, "At their weekly craft group meeting, Rachel, Jessica and Tiffany admit they share a difficult secret: they're all struggling with major financial problems. 352p.ReadingGroupGuides
Strout, Elizabeth, Olive Kitteridge, Olive Kitteridge is the kind of woman you would duck across the street to avoid meeting. She's abrasive as sandpaper rubbed across a scab and unapologetically rude. Now retired, she taught seventh-grade math in the small Maine town of Crosby for years, earning a reputation as the mean teacher who leaves her students flustered and trembling. 304p. http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/13-fiction
.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Recommendations
I am recommending a great website for readers. It is goodreads.com. When I was an elementary librarian a wonderful parent sent me this website. It is a website that you can find great books to read and share your love of reading with others. I signed up for the monthlty newsletter.
Please read and see the movie, The Help. Our book club read it for our April book selection. This week some of our group went to see the movie. It was also wonderful and pretty much stayed with the book. It reminds how much the civil rights movement
did for our country's racical problems but also how far we must travel in the future.
Please read and see the movie, The Help. Our book club read it for our April book selection. This week some of our group went to see the movie. It was also wonderful and pretty much stayed with the book. It reminds how much the civil rights movement
did for our country's racical problems but also how far we must travel in the future.
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Our New Book Selections
New Book Club Selections
In May our book club we decided to weed some titles that we didn't want to read. Also we added some new titles. For choosing the selections, I ask our members for selections. I also look at new books and read reviews. Also my friend who has belonged to a book club for 30 plus has good suggestions. I have also included some Christmas and holiday books for December and January. We also had decided along the way that it is best to have a moderator that will lead the discussion and the questions. We volunteer to be a moderator. In the future we may not always meet in the library. We may meet in our member's home. We like to socialize. Who doesn't?
Dallas, Sandra, Tallgrass During Word War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. 336p. ReadingGroupGuide.com
Ford, Jamie, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet A friendship between a Chinese-American and a Japanese-American girl in Seattle During WWII. 320p. ReadingGroupGuide.com
Blum, Jenna, Those who Save Us A professor’s mother refuses to talk to her daughter about her life in Germany during WWII, even though the daughter is interviewing survivors and writing a book. 496p. ReadingGroupGuides.com
Mullen, Thomas, The Last Town on Earth Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced–the 1918 flu epidemic. 432p.
ReadingGroupGuides.com
Monroe, Mary Alice Time is a River Breast cancer survivor Mia Landan returns home to find her husband in bed with another woman. Still weak from the cancer treatments, and not ready to make decisions about her failed marriage, Mia asks Belle Carson, a fly-fishing guide and the head of Casting for Recovery, if she can stay in Belle’s isolated mountain cabin. 384p.books.simonschuster.com
Monroe, Mary Alice The Four Seasons., What a great story! The characters-four sisters-Jillian, Rose, Beatrice and Meredith are a study in relationships between sisters, If you have ever had a close sister relationship or one with another woman, you will find this a fascinating study... The Four Seasons is definitely recommended as a good read, It presents a way to learn a lot. about women and how perceptions differ depending on who you are and where you are in life, Enjoy! 422p
Flagg, Fannie, Can’t Wait for Heaven, Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and sidesplitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here? 384p
www.litlovers.com Type in the title
Mapson, Jo-Ann, Hank and Chloe, Hank and Chloe are as star-crossed as Romeo and Juliet but sexier and frankly, a lot more fun. This is a love story with a salsa bite and a winning heart. 310p. ReadingGroupGuides.com
Mapson, Jo-Ann, Solomon’s Oak, This book is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever. Though, it resonates with hope and love. 384p.ReadingGroupGuides.com
Roberts, Shelia, Love in Bloom, A funny, inspiring women's fiction novel about three women who share neighboring plots in a community garden and change each other's lives forever. 366p. readinggroupguides.com
Roberts, Shelia, Small Change, "At their weekly craft group meeting, Rachel, Jessica and Tiffany admit they share a difficult secret: they're all struggling with major financial problems. 352p.ReadingGroupGuides
Strout, Elizabeth, Olive Kitteridge, Olive Kitteridge is the kind of woman you would duck across the street to avoid meeting. She's abrasive as sandpaper rubbed across a scab and unapologetically rude. Now retired, she taught seventh-grade math in the small Maine town of Crosby for years, earning a reputation as the mean teacher who leaves her students flustered and trembling. 304p. http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/13-fiction/696-olive-kitteridge-strout
Kingsolver, Barbara, Animal, Vegetable and Miracle: A year of food Barbara Kingsolver describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their lives with the local food chain. 400p. www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?isbn13
Kingsolver, Barbara, Prodigal Summer, Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes the countryside, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. 460p.
www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?&...
Simonson, Barbara, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Retired British Army Officer Major
Ernest Pettigrew has learned that his only brother has died. The door bell rings Mrs. Ali,
Pakistani shopkeeper, has come to the door to collect the newspaper bill. She touched
by his grief, she leads him into the living room and makes a cup of tea and offers him words of Comfort. A friendship blossoms. 384p.www.litlovers.com/.../13.../610-major-pettigrews-last-stand-simonson
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time,
Christopher Boone is a fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a great deal about math and very little about human beings. When he finds his neighbor’s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his world upside down. 240p.
www.readinggroupguides.com/.../curious_incident_dog1.asp
Skloot, Rebecca, The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks, a poor Southern tobacco farmer, was buried in an unmarked grave sixty years ago. Yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medical research. Known to science as HeLa, the first "immortal" human cells grown in culture are still alive today, and have been bought and sold by the millions. Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to East Baltimore today, where Henrietta's family struggles with her legacy. 381p.
www.gobigread.wisc.edu/Discussion-Toolkit/Questions2011.pdf
Holiday books for December and January
Roberts, Sheila, Angel Lane Keep the heart in Heart Lake. That’s exactly what three small-town shop owners hope to do when they launch their crazy-ambitious “Have a Heart” campaign—asking neighbors to commit one random act of kindness every day. Emma, Sarah, and Jamie love their lakeside community, but the little town is growing too big too fast, and a doing a good deed never hurt anyone. Or so they thought…
Andrews, Mary Kay, Blue Christmas, It′s the week before Christmas, and antiques dealer Weezie Foley is in a frenzy to do up her shop for the Savannah historical district window decorating contest-which she intends to win.
Pearlman, Ann, The Christmas Cookie Club. Every year at Christmastime, Marnie and her twelve closest girlfriends gather in the evening with batches of beautifully wrapped homemade cookies. Everyone has to bring a dessert and a bottle of wine, but this year, it’s their stories that are especially important. Marnie’s oldest daughter has a risky pregnancy. Jeannie’s father is having an affair with her best friend. Taylor’s life is in financial freefall. Rosie’s husband doesn’t want children, and she has to decide, very soon, the fate of her marriage.
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Christmas-Cookie-Club/Ann-Pearlman/9781439158845/reading_group_guide - 55k -
In May our book club we decided to weed some titles that we didn't want to read. Also we added some new titles. For choosing the selections, I ask our members for selections. I also look at new books and read reviews. Also my friend who has belonged to a book club for 30 plus has good suggestions. I have also included some Christmas and holiday books for December and January. We also had decided along the way that it is best to have a moderator that will lead the discussion and the questions. We volunteer to be a moderator. In the future we may not always meet in the library. We may meet in our member's home. We like to socialize. Who doesn't?
Dallas, Sandra, Tallgrass During Word War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. 336p. ReadingGroupGuide.com
Ford, Jamie, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet A friendship between a Chinese-American and a Japanese-American girl in Seattle During WWII. 320p. ReadingGroupGuide.com
Blum, Jenna, Those who Save Us A professor’s mother refuses to talk to her daughter about her life in Germany during WWII, even though the daughter is interviewing survivors and writing a book. 496p. ReadingGroupGuides.com
Mullen, Thomas, The Last Town on Earth Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced–the 1918 flu epidemic. 432p.
ReadingGroupGuides.com
Monroe, Mary Alice Time is a River Breast cancer survivor Mia Landan returns home to find her husband in bed with another woman. Still weak from the cancer treatments, and not ready to make decisions about her failed marriage, Mia asks Belle Carson, a fly-fishing guide and the head of Casting for Recovery, if she can stay in Belle’s isolated mountain cabin. 384p.books.simonschuster.com
Monroe, Mary Alice The Four Seasons., What a great story! The characters-four sisters-Jillian, Rose, Beatrice and Meredith are a study in relationships between sisters, If you have ever had a close sister relationship or one with another woman, you will find this a fascinating study... The Four Seasons is definitely recommended as a good read, It presents a way to learn a lot. about women and how perceptions differ depending on who you are and where you are in life, Enjoy! 422p
Flagg, Fannie, Can’t Wait for Heaven, Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and sidesplitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here? 384p
www.litlovers.com Type in the title
Mapson, Jo-Ann, Hank and Chloe, Hank and Chloe are as star-crossed as Romeo and Juliet but sexier and frankly, a lot more fun. This is a love story with a salsa bite and a winning heart. 310p. ReadingGroupGuides.com
Mapson, Jo-Ann, Solomon’s Oak, This book is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever. Though, it resonates with hope and love. 384p.ReadingGroupGuides.com
Roberts, Shelia, Love in Bloom, A funny, inspiring women's fiction novel about three women who share neighboring plots in a community garden and change each other's lives forever. 366p. readinggroupguides.com
Roberts, Shelia, Small Change, "At their weekly craft group meeting, Rachel, Jessica and Tiffany admit they share a difficult secret: they're all struggling with major financial problems. 352p.ReadingGroupGuides
Strout, Elizabeth, Olive Kitteridge, Olive Kitteridge is the kind of woman you would duck across the street to avoid meeting. She's abrasive as sandpaper rubbed across a scab and unapologetically rude. Now retired, she taught seventh-grade math in the small Maine town of Crosby for years, earning a reputation as the mean teacher who leaves her students flustered and trembling. 304p. http://www.litlovers.com/reading-guides/13-fiction/696-olive-kitteridge-strout
Kingsolver, Barbara, Animal, Vegetable and Miracle: A year of food Barbara Kingsolver describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their lives with the local food chain. 400p. www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?isbn13
Kingsolver, Barbara, Prodigal Summer, Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes the countryside, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. 460p.
www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?&...
Simonson, Barbara, Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Retired British Army Officer Major
Ernest Pettigrew has learned that his only brother has died. The door bell rings Mrs. Ali,
Pakistani shopkeeper, has come to the door to collect the newspaper bill. She touched
by his grief, she leads him into the living room and makes a cup of tea and offers him words of Comfort. A friendship blossoms. 384p.www.litlovers.com/.../13.../610-major-pettigrews-last-stand-simonson
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time,
Christopher Boone is a fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a great deal about math and very little about human beings. When he finds his neighbor’s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his world upside down. 240p.
www.readinggroupguides.com/.../curious_incident_dog1.asp
Skloot, Rebecca, The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks Henrietta Lacks, a poor Southern tobacco farmer, was buried in an unmarked grave sixty years ago. Yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medical research. Known to science as HeLa, the first "immortal" human cells grown in culture are still alive today, and have been bought and sold by the millions. Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey from the "colored" ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to East Baltimore today, where Henrietta's family struggles with her legacy. 381p.
www.gobigread.wisc.edu/Discussion-Toolkit/Questions2011.pdf
Holiday books for December and January
Roberts, Sheila, Angel Lane Keep the heart in Heart Lake. That’s exactly what three small-town shop owners hope to do when they launch their crazy-ambitious “Have a Heart” campaign—asking neighbors to commit one random act of kindness every day. Emma, Sarah, and Jamie love their lakeside community, but the little town is growing too big too fast, and a doing a good deed never hurt anyone. Or so they thought…
Andrews, Mary Kay, Blue Christmas, It′s the week before Christmas, and antiques dealer Weezie Foley is in a frenzy to do up her shop for the Savannah historical district window decorating contest-which she intends to win.
Pearlman, Ann, The Christmas Cookie Club. Every year at Christmastime, Marnie and her twelve closest girlfriends gather in the evening with batches of beautifully wrapped homemade cookies. Everyone has to bring a dessert and a bottle of wine, but this year, it’s their stories that are especially important. Marnie’s oldest daughter has a risky pregnancy. Jeannie’s father is having an affair with her best friend. Taylor’s life is in financial freefall. Rosie’s husband doesn’t want children, and she has to decide, very soon, the fate of her marriage.
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Christmas-Cookie-Club/Ann-Pearlman/9781439158845/reading_group_guide - 55k -
Our book club selections June through November
I am now the keeper of the list for our woman's club book group. I have discussed how
books are placed on our list. After I compile the list e-mail it to our members who have e-mail. To our members who do not have e-mail I send via the USPS.
Our June through November Book Club Selections
June Selection Karen Moderator
Ford, Jamie, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet A friendship between a Chinese-American and a Japanese-American girl in Seattle During WWII. 320p. ReadingGroupGuide.com
July Selection Estelle Moderator at Estelle’s house
Monroe, Mary Alice The Four Seasons., What a great story! The characters-four sisters-Jillian, Rose, Beatrice and Meredith are a study in relationships between sisters, If you have ever had a close sister relationship or one with another woman, you will find this a fascinating study... The Four Seasons is definitely recommended as a good read, It presents a way to learn a lot. about women and how perceptions differ depending on who you are and where you are in life, Enjoy! 422p
August Selection Norma Moderator
Flagg, Fannie, Can’t Wait for Heaven, Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and sidesplitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here? 384pwww.litlovers.com Type in the title
September Selection Louise Moderator
Flagg, Fannie, Can’t Wait for Heaven, Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and sidesplitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here? 384pwww.litlovers.com Type in the title
September Selection Louise Moderator
Kingsolver, Barbara, Animal, Vegetable and Miracle: A year of food Barbara Kingsolver describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their lives with the local food chain. 400p. www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?isbn13
October Selection Linda Moderator
Mapson, Jo-Ann, Solomon’s Oak, This book is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever. Though, it resonates with hope and love. 384p.ReadingGroupGuides.com
Mapson, Jo-Ann, Solomon’s Oak, This book is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever. Though, it resonates with hope and love. 384p.ReadingGroupGuides.com
November Selection Pat
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time,
Christopher Boone is a fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a great deal about math and very little about human beings. When he finds his neighbor’s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his world upside down. 240p.
www.readinggroupguides.com/.../curious_incident_dog1.asp
Haddon, Mark, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time,
Christopher Boone is a fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a great deal about math and very little about human beings. When he finds his neighbor’s dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his world upside down. 240p.
www.readinggroupguides.com/.../curious_incident_dog1.asp
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Adult Book Selections
Here are adult selections that you may want to read.
For February our book is Stockett, Kathryn, The Help In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women in Mississippi on 1962 to start a movement forever changes a town, and the way women-mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends-view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
Please remember to reserve this book at the library if you do not have a copy.
Last week our book club discussed this book. We had a wonderful lively discussion.
Larrson, Steig The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo It s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. 672p.ReadingGroupGuide
Dallas, Sandra, Tallgrass During Word War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. 336p. ReadingGroupGuide.com
Dallas, Sandra The Persian Pickle Club.
It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there's not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging gossip, and putting their quilting skills to good use. 208p.
Ford, Jamie, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet A friendship between a Chinese-American and a Japanese-American girl in Seattle During WWII. 320p. ReadingGroupGuide.com
Wallace, Nicole, 18 Acres Eighteen Acres, a description used by political insiders when referring to the White House complex, follows the first female President of the United States, Charlotte Kramer, and her staff as they take on dangerous threats from abroad and within her very own cabinet. 322p.http://books.simonandschuster.com/Eighteen-Acres/Nicolle-Wallace/9781439194829/reading_group_guide
Blum, Jenna, Those who Save Us A professor’s mother refuses to talk to her daughter about her life in Germany during WWII, even though the daughter is interviewing survivors and writing a book. 496p. ReadingGroupGuides.com
Mullen, Thomas, The Last Town on Earth Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced–the 1918 flu epidemic. 432p.
ReadingGroupGuides.com
Steele, Danielle, Granny Dan, is about the magic of history. In The author reminds us how little we know of those who came before us—and how, if we could only glimpse into their early lives, and see who they once were, there is so much we would understand and learn. 242p.
Monroe, Mary Alice Time is a River Breast cancer survivor Mia Landan returns home to find her husband in bed with another woman. Still weak from the cancer treatments, and not ready to make decisions about her failed marriage, Mia asks Belle Carson, a fly-fishing guide and the head of Casting for Recovery, if she can stay in Belle’s isolated mountain cabin. 384p.books.simonschuster.com
Monroe, Mary Alice The Four Seasons., What a great story! The characters-four sisters-Jillian, Rose, Beatrice and Meredith are a study in relationships between sisters, If you have ever had a close sister relationship or one with another woman, you will find this a fascinating study... The Four Seasons is definitely recommended as a good read, It presents a way to learn a lot. about women and how perceptions differ depending on who you are and where you are in life, Enjoy! 422p
Flagg, Fannie, Can’t Wait for Heaven, Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and sidesplitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here? 384p
Mapson, Jo-Ann, Hank and Chloe, Hank and Chloe are as star-crossed as Romeo and Juliet but sexier and frankly, a lot more fun. This is a love story with a salsa bite and a winning heart. 310p. ReadingGroupGuides.com
Mapson, Jo-Ann, Solomon’s Oak, This book is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever. Though, it resonates with hope and love. 384p.ReadingGroupGuides.com
Roberts, Shelia, Love in Bloom, A funny, inspiring women's fiction novel about three women who share neighboring plots in a community garden and change each other's lives forever. 366p. readinggroupguides.com
Roberts, Shelia, Small Change, "At their weekly craft group meeting, Rachel, Jessica and Tiffany admit they share a difficult secret: they're all struggling with major financial problems. 352p.ReadingGroupGuides
Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .” With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of history’s most explosive eras—the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, 448p. Oprah.com
Gladwell, Malcolm Outliers The author takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. 320p.
Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point, Defining that precise moment when a trend becomes a trend, Malcolm Gladwell probes the surface of everyday occurrences to reveal some surprising dynamics behind explosive social changes. 301p.
Atwood, Margaret, The Tent, Incredible! This fascinating collection of stories, poems, and shorts is as intriguing as the many different voices Atwood uses to portray the pieces. The Works in this collection span many years of writing and many of the pieces have previously been published elsewhere in such works as: The Walrus, Harper's Magazine, New Beginnings, and a few small independent printings of smaller collections.
Strout, Elizabeth, Olive Kitteridge, Olive Kitteridge is the kind of woman you would duck across the street to avoid meeting. She's abrasive as sandpaper rubbed across a scab and unapologetically rude. Now retired, she taught seventh-grade math in the small Maine town of Crosby for years, earning a reputation as the mean teacher who leaves her students flustered and trembling. She is loud, unnerving, tart-tongued, and completely unforgettable. 304p. readinggroupguides.com
For February our book is Stockett, Kathryn, The Help In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women in Mississippi on 1962 to start a movement forever changes a town, and the way women-mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends-view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
Please remember to reserve this book at the library if you do not have a copy.
Last week our book club discussed this book. We had a wonderful lively discussion.
Larrson, Steig The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo It s about the disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden . . . and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. 672p.ReadingGroupGuide
Dallas, Sandra, Tallgrass During Word War II, a family finds life turned upside down when the government opens a Japanese internment camp in their small Colorado town. After a young girl is murdered, all eyes (and suspicions) turn to the newcomers, the interlopers, the strangers. 336p. ReadingGroupGuide.com
Dallas, Sandra The Persian Pickle Club.
It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there's not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging gossip, and putting their quilting skills to good use. 208p.
Ford, Jamie, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet A friendship between a Chinese-American and a Japanese-American girl in Seattle During WWII. 320p. ReadingGroupGuide.com
Wallace, Nicole, 18 Acres Eighteen Acres, a description used by political insiders when referring to the White House complex, follows the first female President of the United States, Charlotte Kramer, and her staff as they take on dangerous threats from abroad and within her very own cabinet. 322p.http://books.simonandschuster.com/Eighteen-Acres/Nicolle-Wallace/9781439194829/reading_group_guide
Blum, Jenna, Those who Save Us A professor’s mother refuses to talk to her daughter about her life in Germany during WWII, even though the daughter is interviewing survivors and writing a book. 496p. ReadingGroupGuides.com
Mullen, Thomas, The Last Town on Earth Set against the backdrop of one of the most virulent epidemics that America ever experienced–the 1918 flu epidemic. 432p.
ReadingGroupGuides.com
Steele, Danielle, Granny Dan, is about the magic of history. In The author reminds us how little we know of those who came before us—and how, if we could only glimpse into their early lives, and see who they once were, there is so much we would understand and learn. 242p.
Monroe, Mary Alice Time is a River Breast cancer survivor Mia Landan returns home to find her husband in bed with another woman. Still weak from the cancer treatments, and not ready to make decisions about her failed marriage, Mia asks Belle Carson, a fly-fishing guide and the head of Casting for Recovery, if she can stay in Belle’s isolated mountain cabin. 384p.books.simonschuster.com
Monroe, Mary Alice The Four Seasons., What a great story! The characters-four sisters-Jillian, Rose, Beatrice and Meredith are a study in relationships between sisters, If you have ever had a close sister relationship or one with another woman, you will find this a fascinating study... The Four Seasons is definitely recommended as a good read, It presents a way to learn a lot. about women and how perceptions differ depending on who you are and where you are in life, Enjoy! 422p
Flagg, Fannie, Can’t Wait for Heaven, Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and sidesplitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here? 384p
Mapson, Jo-Ann, Hank and Chloe, Hank and Chloe are as star-crossed as Romeo and Juliet but sexier and frankly, a lot more fun. This is a love story with a salsa bite and a winning heart. 310p. ReadingGroupGuides.com
Mapson, Jo-Ann, Solomon’s Oak, This book is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever. Though, it resonates with hope and love. 384p.ReadingGroupGuides.com
Roberts, Shelia, Love in Bloom, A funny, inspiring women's fiction novel about three women who share neighboring plots in a community garden and change each other's lives forever. 366p. readinggroupguides.com
Roberts, Shelia, Small Change, "At their weekly craft group meeting, Rachel, Jessica and Tiffany admit they share a difficult secret: they're all struggling with major financial problems. 352p.ReadingGroupGuides
Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . .” With these famous words, Charles Dickens plunges the reader into one of history’s most explosive eras—the French Revolution. From the storming of the Bastille to the relentless drop of the guillotine, 448p. Oprah.com
Gladwell, Malcolm Outliers The author takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful people are like, and too little attention to where they are from: that is, their culture, their family, their generation, and the idiosyncratic experiences of their upbringing. 320p.
Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point, Defining that precise moment when a trend becomes a trend, Malcolm Gladwell probes the surface of everyday occurrences to reveal some surprising dynamics behind explosive social changes. 301p.
Atwood, Margaret, The Tent, Incredible! This fascinating collection of stories, poems, and shorts is as intriguing as the many different voices Atwood uses to portray the pieces. The Works in this collection span many years of writing and many of the pieces have previously been published elsewhere in such works as: The Walrus, Harper's Magazine, New Beginnings, and a few small independent printings of smaller collections.
Strout, Elizabeth, Olive Kitteridge, Olive Kitteridge is the kind of woman you would duck across the street to avoid meeting. She's abrasive as sandpaper rubbed across a scab and unapologetically rude. Now retired, she taught seventh-grade math in the small Maine town of Crosby for years, earning a reputation as the mean teacher who leaves her students flustered and trembling. She is loud, unnerving, tart-tongued, and completely unforgettable. 304p. readinggroupguides.com
Book Discussion Groups
Hi everyone,
I know you have not heard from in awhile. After I retired I wanted to belong to book discussion. One of my friends had belonged for a book club for thirty years. Believe or not, I am now the Queen of Book club discussion groups. I belong to three book clubs. Yes, three! I love reading! My advice, be careful for what you wish for. Last summer in 2009 I joined a nearby library’s book club. Then, this summer a Jane Austen book club started at the same library. I joined that one. I liked the sound of it. It sounded quite literary. I like it. Then, the members of the Hopatcong’s Women’s Club wanted to start a book club. I helped start it. We have our meetings in our branch library. Truthfully, I do enjoy the book discussion groups. For me it is an extension of being a librarian.
If you have a group of people that would want to start a book discussion, type in Goggle
How to start a book discussion group. You will have so many hits. Everyone from Orpah to www.readinggroupguides.com/roundtable/start.asp
Also join one at your public library or local book store. It is a lot of fun to be with other people
who love or like to read. You have a chance to discuss points that your members want to. Also different people bring different opinion to the table.
Here is information for our future selections.
We have a great book club that meets at the Library every month.
It is on the second Monday of the month from 10:00 to 11:30. New members to the group are encouraged to join us. If you have any questions, call Linda at my phone number. Please also join the public library to hold or save books.
Our March book selection is:
Dallas, Sandra, The Persian Pickle Club.
It is the 1930’s hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there’s not a job to found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging gossip and putting their quilting skills to good use.
Our April book selection
Wallace, Nicole, 18 Acres, a description used by political insiders when referring to the White House Complex, follows the first female President of the United States, Charlotte Kramer and her staff as they take on dangerous threats from abroad and within her very own cabinet.
Our May book selection
Steele, Danielle, Granny Dan, is about the magic of history. The author reminds us how little we know of those who came before us--and how, if we could only glimpse into their early lives and see who they once were, There is so much we could understand and learn.
I know you have not heard from in awhile. After I retired I wanted to belong to book discussion. One of my friends had belonged for a book club for thirty years. Believe or not, I am now the Queen of Book club discussion groups. I belong to three book clubs. Yes, three! I love reading! My advice, be careful for what you wish for. Last summer in 2009 I joined a nearby library’s book club. Then, this summer a Jane Austen book club started at the same library. I joined that one. I liked the sound of it. It sounded quite literary. I like it. Then, the members of the Hopatcong’s Women’s Club wanted to start a book club. I helped start it. We have our meetings in our branch library. Truthfully, I do enjoy the book discussion groups. For me it is an extension of being a librarian.
If you have a group of people that would want to start a book discussion, type in Goggle
How to start a book discussion group. You will have so many hits. Everyone from Orpah to www.readinggroupguides.com/roundtable/start.asp
Also join one at your public library or local book store. It is a lot of fun to be with other people
who love or like to read. You have a chance to discuss points that your members want to. Also different people bring different opinion to the table.
Here is information for our future selections.
We have a great book club that meets at the Library every month.
It is on the second Monday of the month from 10:00 to 11:30. New members to the group are encouraged to join us. If you have any questions, call Linda at my phone number. Please also join the public library to hold or save books.
Our March book selection is:
Dallas, Sandra, The Persian Pickle Club.
It is the 1930’s hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there’s not a job to found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging gossip and putting their quilting skills to good use.
Our April book selection
Wallace, Nicole, 18 Acres, a description used by political insiders when referring to the White House Complex, follows the first female President of the United States, Charlotte Kramer and her staff as they take on dangerous threats from abroad and within her very own cabinet.
Our May book selection
Steele, Danielle, Granny Dan, is about the magic of history. The author reminds us how little we know of those who came before us--and how, if we could only glimpse into their early lives and see who they once were, There is so much we could understand and learn.
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