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christinec2010
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Christine
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Book Club
I have to pick the next book in my book club & am not sure what to pick.
So far we have read:
Little Bee by Chris Cleeve
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
My Horizontal Life by Chelsea Handler
I found these on Amazon & they look interesting:
A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius
A Lesson Before Dying
The Curios Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Message edited 10/4/2010 4:15:13 PM.
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PrettyPeonies
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Re: Book Club
The Shack & Have a little a little faith
They both have very strong religious themes, not sure if thats appropriate for a book club, but both books were wonderful in my opinion.
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| Posted 10/4/10 4:24 PM |
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Otherme
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Re: Book Club
Posted by christinec2010
I have to pick the next book in my book club & am not sure what to pick.
The Curios Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
I read this several years ago and it was very enjoyable!
How about The Dome by Stephen King?
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| Posted 10/4/10 4:30 PM |
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Pray4Baby2010
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Re: Book Club
We're reading recipes for a perfect marriage for my book club now and its pretty good. We did let the great world spin before that and the help before that. the help was by far the best we ever all read together!
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| Posted 10/4/10 4:32 PM |
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mikeandjess
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Re: Book Club
Posted by Pray4Baby2010
We're reading recipes for a perfect marriage for my book club now and its pretty good. We did let the great world spin before that and the help before that. the help was by far the best we ever all read together!
I agree. Other books my book club read that we all really liked were The Red Tent, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, The Glass Castle and The Hunger Games
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| Posted 10/4/10 4:38 PM |
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CathyB
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Re: Book Club
Water for Elephants
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| Posted 10/4/10 5:28 PM |
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twobabies
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Re: Book Club
Posted by CathyB
Water for Elephants
was just going to suggest this book. i loved this book and found it outstanding.
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| Posted 10/4/10 5:38 PM |
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Jenn627
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Re: Book Club
Water for Elephants - fantastic book
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| Posted 10/4/10 5:52 PM |
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emc282rjm
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Re: Book Club
Posted by Jenn627
Water for Elephants - fantastic book
I really liked Water for Elephants
I also liked Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius didn't do it for me, although I love Dave Egger's non-fiction. If you're willing to read non-fiction that's narrative (Eggers calls it a non-fiction novel), try Zeitoun. It's AMAZING.
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| Posted 10/4/10 9:33 PM |
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sasha96
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Re: Book Club
Posted by christinec2010
I have to pick the next book in my book club & am not sure what to pick.
The Curios Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
This book was fabulous, coming from someone who works with children with autism.
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| Posted 10/5/10 1:47 PM |
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bird382
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Re: Book Club
Posted by christinec2010
I found these on Amazon & they look interesting:
A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius
A Lesson Before Dying
The Curios Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
I love Dave Eggers, and the first half of Heartbreaking Work is amazing -- but the second half is awful.
I highly recommend his What is the What. It's about the Sudanese Lost Boys. Such an intense book.
I feel like everyone has probably already read Curious Incident and Water for Elephants.
The guy that wrote the book that Slumdog Millionaire is based on has a new book out called Six Suspects. I'm in the middle of it now, and while I don't care for it (I just don't like mysteries and should have known better), it could be good to spark discussions both on the mystery and on Indian culture.
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bird382
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Re: Book Club
Posted by emc282rjm
Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius didn't do it for me, although I love Dave Egger's non-fiction. If you're willing to read non-fiction that's narrative (Eggers calls it a non-fiction novel), try Zeitoun. It's AMAZING.
Oooh, good to know! I picked it up at the bookstore last week and haven't gotten around to reading it yet.
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| Posted 10/5/10 1:49 PM |
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LovingLife
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Re: Book Club
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
The Shack by William P. Young
Book Club by Mary Monroe
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| Posted 10/5/10 3:48 PM |
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bird382
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Re: Book Club
Posted by bird382
The guy that wrote the book that Slumdog Millionaire is based on has a new book out called Six Suspects. I'm in the middle of it now, and while I don't care for it (I just don't like mysteries and should have known better), it could be good to spark discussions both on the mystery and on Indian culture.
I'm taking back this recommendation. Stupid book.
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| Posted 10/20/10 10:25 AM |
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DaisyGirl
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Re: Book Club
The only one I've read is Little Bee and I didn't really like it.
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| Posted 10/22/10 5:37 PM |
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mathteach
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Re: Book Club
Posted by Pray4Baby2010
We're reading recipes for a perfect marriage for my book club now and its pretty good. We did let the great world spin before that and the help before that. the help was by far the best we ever all read together!
I'm literally sat here for 5 minutes trying to figure out who you were!!!!
LOL. I'm a moron.
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| Posted 10/22/10 10:06 PM |
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sunflowerjesss
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Re: Book Club
I just told my sister about a Sounds Like Crazy by Shana Mahaffey. She was so interested she told her book club about it and they picked it for next month.
Loved it!
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| Posted 10/25/10 6:12 PM |
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MikesBride
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Re: Book Club
The Curious Incident is a great book!!!
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| Posted 10/26/10 12:35 PM |
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Gertyrae
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Re: Book Club
The Curious Incident
Water for Elephants
Three Cups of Tea (amazing book, amazing man)
we just finished House on Oyster Creek and it was really, really good and extremely well written.
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MikesBride
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Re: Book Club
Posted by DaisyGirl
The only one I've read is Little Bee and I didn't really like it.
I felt the same way...I really didn't like it at all. Hated the ending, thought the whole book was kinda pointless.
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| Posted 11/4/10 2:08 PM |
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cateyemm
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Re: Book Club
Posted by bird382
I highly recommend his What is the What. It's about the Sudanese Lost Boys. Such an intense book.
I was trying to remember the name of What is the What. I read that last year- amazing book!
eta Little Bee is what I'm reading right now and the theme reminds me of What is the What. Its super intense
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cateyemm
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Re: Book Club
Little Bee is what I'm reading right now and the theme reminds me of What is the What. Its super intense
I just finished litte bee. i just wanted to share that its INTENSE and slightly depressing... thats all. otherwise an awesome book.
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