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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 you start on the lower right with Finn and then read from right to left, bottom to top, then you have the order. I also listed it down below. I always make a shelf in Goodreads for my book club reading list, just to keep track of it. Next time, I’ll start with the last book first.

I’m really pleased with this list. We actually added two more books that take us into the next year so I did not list them officially here, but those two are Last Night in Twisted River and The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

2010 Library Book Club Reading List

Jan – Finn by John Clinch [review]

Feb – Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Mar – True History of the Kelly Gang byPeter Carey

April – The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon [review] Changed to The Book Thief.

May – First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung

June – Zeitoun by Dave Eggers

July – Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink

Aug – The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Sept – Invisible by Paul Auster

Oct – Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

Nov – Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors

Dec – Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

How to Paint a Dead Man Book Cover

How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall

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Here’s the blurb from the publisher:

From Sarah Hall, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Daughters of the North and The Electric Michelangelo comes the Harper Perennial paperback original novel How to Paint a Dead Man, a daringly imaginative tale in which multiple lives are woven together through the prism of a still life painting. Moving from Italy to England, spanning nearly half a century, and bringing together the lives of four disparate characters, How to Paint a Dead Man is Hall’s fierce and brilliant study of art and its place in our lives.

The lives of four individuals—a dying painter, a blind girl, a landscape artist, and an art curator—intertwine across nearly five decades in this luminous and searching novel of extraordinary power. With How to Paint a Dead Man, Sarah Hall, “one of the most significant and exciting of Britain’s young novelists” (The Guardian), delivers “a maddeningly enticing read.

This book was a Man Booker Prize finalist. I had planned on pitching it to my book club last night, for this year’s reading list but one of the requirements that we have is that the book must be available from the library and this one isn’t! I will read it on my own though.

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