2012 Book Club Reading List (and some for 2013)

You might recall this post, where I asked your opinion on which books to pitch at my book club’s yearly selection meeting. The book that I most wanted to read, was also the book that I feared would get overlooked because of its content, its overly depressing nature… the fact that it’s about yet another [...]

Book Club: What We Pitched & What Was Chosen

If you visited me earlier in the week, you may have read this post where I expressed my anxiety anticipation over my book club’s yearly selection meeting. Well, we met at Border’s last night to select twelve books and let me tell you, it was hard to limit myself to two books. I came in [...]

Review: Case Histories

Case Histories By Kate Atkinson Little Brown and Company October 2005 336pp Here’s the blurb from the publisher: A breathtaking story of families divided, love lost and found, and the mysteries of fate. Case One: Olivia Land, youngest and most beloved of the Land girls, goes missing in the night and is never seen again. [...]

Library Book Club Reading List for 2010

My book club met last night for our annual book selection meeting. We choose our books for the entire year. This seems to work well for us and we all look forward to the meeting. I took this screenshot off of Goodreads, but it’s the exact opposite of how we plan to read them. If [...]

Review: Finn

Finn By Jon Clinch Random House March 2008 320pp Here’s the blurb from the publisher: Finn sets a tragic figure loose in a landscape at once familiar and mythic. It begins and ends with a lifeless body–flayed and stripped of all identifying marks–drifting down the Mississippi. The circumstances of the murder, and the secret of [...]

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