Looking Ahead: Sept 2018 - Feb 2019

Here are some choices for Sept-December... we'll decide on these books at our June meeting so if you're unable to attend, please take a minute to pop into the comments and share your preferences.  If you have another book you'd like to suggest, please add it to the comments so that we can check it out in advance.  Generally speaking, we've found that last minute impulse decisions are often duds... and we get better books when we all do a little bit of homework.  I've included links so that you can easily check out all these titles and have an informed opinion. 

September - Reading the Classics 

Hostess: Danielle

1. The Invisible Man by HG Wells
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
3. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
5. here's a great (but short) list of classics... have you read all these?
6. Emma by Jane Austen

October - Mystery Night 

Hostess: Emily

1. The Thirteenth Tale by Dianne Setterfield
2. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
3. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag (Flavia de Luce #2) by 
   Alan Bradley
4. The Gravity of Birds by Tracy Guzeman
5. mysteries for thinking women list from Oprah
6. The Hollow City by Ransome Riggs

November - Library Kit

Hostess: Karen

December - Get Cooking 

Hostess: Marion

1. 97 Orchard:: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in one New York Tenement by Jane Ziegelman
2. Sous Chef by Michael Gibney. 
3. My Paris Kitchen Recipes and Stories by David Lebovitz
4. A Kitchen in France by Mimi Thorisson
5. The Broad Fork by Hugh Acheson
6. other suggestions? We looking for good food with a bit of a "story" to it :-)

January 2019 - Biography/Autobiography

Hostess: Shelagh

1. a biography of a member of the Royal Family?  There are lots to choose from! 
2. Between Gods by Alison Pick... one woman's discovery that she is really Jewish and how she struggles to make sense of her heritage, faith and family in the midst of depression
3. Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng (the true story of one woman's sufferings during the Cultural Revolution in China... see review in July 2010) 
4. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson (about building schools to educate women in Afganistan)... this book is also interesting in that it has been widely discredited
5. Night by Elie Wiesel (a classic memoir about one teen's struggle to come to terms with guilt and God after surviving the death camps in WWII)
6. I Hate to Leave this Beautiful Place by Howard Norman (a memoir)
7. Queen of the Air by Dean N Jensen (a biography that may inspire a new fitness routine!?)
8. other suggestions?

February 2019- Couples Book Club

Hostess: 

• Your Heart is the Size of Your Fist by Martina Scholtens (as chosen in Feb 2018)

March - 

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