We'd like to hear what you are reading throughout the coming year. We would be delighted to open discussion on authors or particular books too. The Library has a great selection of BOOK GROUP in a BAG, with hundreds of titles. There are also wonderful Reading Group or Book Club Guides (with questions, or if you like this author, read these).
Don't forget to meet the author too = the Library has a number of author visits scheduled for 2011. Watch this space! There are quite a few regional visits of authors as well. Share if you plan to attend.
A favourite spot to locate new book titles, subject or ideas or award winning authors is htttp://www.vintagebooks.com/read
One of my book groups has a Poetry Pot Luck in December - an annual event now. In January we are reading Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Books discussed or suggested or on want to read lists: (Feel free to recommend or not any on this list!)
Diego and Frida by LeClezio
Half Baked Ponies by Jeanette Walls (memoir)
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It by Ken Aulett (NF)
The Piano Teacher by Janice K. Lee (F)
The House on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford (F)
Sex, Time and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution by Leonard Schain, recently recommended
House Keeping by Marilyn Robinson ( a recent Writer's Almanac)
Gilead by Marilyn Robinson
Making Democracy Work: A Judge's View by Stephen Breyer (just out in Sept!)
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Man(NF) by Laney Salisbury, Ally Sujo,
When the Crocodile Ate the Sun ()NF) by Peter Godwin,
Five Quarters of the Orange (F) by Joanne Harris
Remembering Smell for Fun (NF) by Bonnie Blodgett
Sea of Poppies (F) by Amitov Ghosh
The Little Stranger (F) by Sarah Waters
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Outcasts United by Warren St. John (NF)
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James (recently featured on MPR)
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