A book club - anyone interested?

[*JG* 2]

I'm interested if the book is interesting enough.

Right now, I'm reading Dorian Gray

[Marina-Del 10]

I agree that we should get a list of 10 books or something and then vote on all of them to see which ones we should read! And I agree that I don't mind doing one that I haven't already read. With the amount of people that have responded and how much we all seem to have read, I think it would be really hard to find a book that none of us have read! I've reading The Duchess by Amanda Foreman right now (the one that was made into a movie with Keira Knightly). The book is a million times better than the movie! I thought the book was going to be in the style of Phillipa Gregory and the "The Other Boilynn Girl" books -also really great books!! But it is more like a traditional biography. For those that don't know the Pillipa Gregory books are historical fiction. So she writes the story based losely on facts, but also embellishes a lot of things that she couldn't possibly know -like the characters actually speak to each other and there is no way she could have known what they say, obviously! But they are also really really great books and I have read all of them. But The Duchess is different. She has used letters that Georgiana wrote and letters that were written to her to compile a biography and she does not take too many liberties (some of course, but not too many). This is how it is totally different from the movie. In the movie we are told an actual story with characters speaking and all of that, but in the book we are just told general ideas about what happened and the only time the characters speak is when she is quoting a letter that they actually wrote word for word.

Anyway....I'll make the first nomination for the list to be voted on....."Life of Pi"

[Amby 490]

I'm totally up for a book club. I read a couple books a week. Right now I'm reading A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson and a very hilarious book of short stories called We Thought You'd Be Prettier by Laurie Notaro

[almaty 19]

reading some robert frost poetry..sitting under an oak tree...with wood

[Teacher Mark 53]

There's free books at gutenberg.org . Most of them are classics. It would be a good way for everybody to get the same book. I would join up, but I'm teaching 40 hours a week. I just don't have the time.

[maya62 7]

OK... I'll just nominate a few that I'd like to read...

The Kite Runner

A Thousand Splendid Suns

The Red Tent

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

And maybe someone can help me... there's a female British author who's written a bunch of fiction books about this group of sisters and their lives and loves... it is contemporary and mostly funny... along the lines of Brigette Jones' Diary sort of. I can't remember the author's name or any of the titles, but I really enjoyed them. It sucks to be over 40!

[almaty 19]

i am reading Sarum

[maya62 7]

And maybe someone can help me... there's a female British author who's written a bunch of fiction books about this group of sisters and their lives and loves... it is contemporary and mostly funny... along the lines of Brigette Jones' Diary sort of. I can't remember the author's name or any of the titles, but I really enjoyed them. It sucks to be over 40!

Geez... nevermind... her name is Marian Keyes. She wrote Rachel's Holiday, Watermelon, and a bunch of others. I really enjoyed her books. And the mysteries by Nevada Barr. And anything by Barbara Kingsolver...

Edited March 30, 2009 by maya62

[missmissy 38]

And maybe someone can help me... there's a female British author who's written a bunch of fiction books about this group of sisters and their lives and loves... it is contemporary and mostly funny... along the lines of Brigette Jones' Diary sort of. I can't remember the author's name or any of the titles, but I really enjoyed them. It sucks to be over 40!

Geez... nevermind... her name is Marian Keyes. She wrote Rachel's Holiday, Watermelon, and a bunch of others. I really enjoyed her books. And the mysteries by Nevada Barr. And anything by Barbara Kingsolver...

I LOVE Marianne Keys!!

[Amby 490]

OK... I'll just nominate a few that I'd like to read...

The Kite Runner

A Thousand Splendid Suns

The Red Tent

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

And maybe someone can help me... there's a female British author who's written a bunch of fiction books about this group of sisters and their lives and loves... it is contemporary and mostly funny... along the lines of Brigette Jones' Diary sort of. I can't remember the author's name or any of the titles, but I really enjoyed them. It sucks to be over 40!

Is that Jenny Colgan or Marian Keyes? I could be completely wrong

And maybe someone can help me... there's a female British author who's written a bunch of fiction books about this group of sisters and their lives and loves... it is contemporary and mostly funny... along the lines of Brigette Jones' Diary sort of. I can't remember the author's name or any of the titles, but I really enjoyed them. It sucks to be over 40!

Geez... nevermind... her name is Marian Keyes. She wrote Rachel's Holiday, Watermelon, and a bunch of others. I really enjoyed her books. And the mysteries by Nevada Barr. And anything by Barbara Kingsolver...

nevermind should have read further

[missmissy 38]

I nominate

The Red Tent

Water for Elephants

[missmissy 38]

i am reading Sarum

Looked it up on Amazon...it looks good. Do you like it or would you recommend it?

[~krakatoa~ 27]

Count me in. The last book I read was "The Oxford Murders" by Guillermo Martinez. I had fun reading it. I think it's adapted into a movie, same title.

[almaty 19]

i am reading Sarum

Looked it up on Amazon...it looks good. Do you like it or would you recommend it?

yes, read Ruska first..a great book

[almaty 19]

an excellent book by the founder of Sociology....his book on sucide is the best...