A book club - anyone interested?

[Marina-Del 10]

Well since the OP voted on here, I say we vote on here too!

Here are my votes in order from most want us to read and least:

1. Life of Pi (my votes are skewed because if we read this I don't have to buy anything!)

2. Angels & Demons (see reason above!)

A Thousand Splendid Suns (link is here, as in the original post it was for Kite Runner: http://www.amazon.com/Thousand-Splendid-Su...080&sr=1-1)

The Red Tent

Kite Runner

Time Travelers Wife

The Winter King

Water for Elephants

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...188834&st=0

The link to the poll

My bad! I guess I just posted my votes for all to see

I didn't see this one...okay, vote going on the poll now!

[maya62 7]

bump

don't forget to vote!

[missmissy 38]

bump

don't forget to vote!

Thanks for the bump! Got busy at work today and forgot!

[maya62 7]

I'm excited about this book club... can you tell?

Posts sink like stones on OT... and I want EVERYONE to be in the book club!

Hope you don't mind this front-row-in-class nerd interference...

*looking for the nerd emoticon*

this'll do:

[missmissy 38]

I'm excited about this book club... can you tell?

Posts sink like stones on OT... and I want EVERYONE to be in the book club!

Hope you don't mind this front-row-in-class nerd interference...

*looking for the nerd emoticon*

this'll do:

I am so happy that you are doing this! I wanted to jump into some of the other threads and start inviting people....keep bumping it!

[~*Dorothy*~ 2]

My vote :thumbs: A Thousand Splendid Suns

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Read the Sword of Truth series starting with Wizard's First Rule.

[missmissy 38]

Voting ends tomorrow! Have you voted yet?

[Ladylethal 12]

bump!

[Amby 490]

I read a lot of weird books sooooo I'll let all of you do the nominating

[easygoingcouple 0]

Oh! so cool idea, and so sweet that you mentioned Eat, Pray, Love first. I read that book in July after I got married. Wow I cried a lot. It's amazing how I could connect with her feelings of distance from God, and uncertainty of direction, and the yearning to connect with the uniting.... ? forces ? in life. Although I have to say I did sort of wonder how she could just decide she needed to quit on her husband who never did anything wrong to her. I only wish I had been so fortunate to have a "normal", boring, nice man and I definitely wouldn't be divorced.... and then remarried of course, so I guess everything happens for a reason.

What is the Pi book about?

Oh yah, BTW, did you marry a guy from Denmark. I've read scandinavian countries are so nicely balanced, almost having the equality for women and consideration for us that you just don't find here and in uhm, the whole rest of the world. I so need to visit there, what's your take on life there?

Eat, Pray, Love sat on my table for a year before I read it, I thought it was just another "self help" type of book. I had no idea that I would just fall into it so fast. I have felt very far away from God too....divorced a man that everyone else liked, people just didn't see what was going on behind the curtain of our lives. I can recommend this book to anyone, it was just really a good read.

Life of Pi is about a small boy, ship wrecked (I read it over a year ago) in a small boat with a tiger, a zebra and some other animals....he is searching for meaning to life. I am getting my copy out and reading it again this week, I think. I remember loving it but now cannot remember too much about it specifically.

We are getting married this summer (fingers crossed). We lived in Sweden for a year and I have been back and forth to Denmark a lot. Generally speaking, Scandanivia and the people are very nice, friendly and easy to be with. Women are treated well and opportunities are there but it is very, very expensive to live there. Just a small example - a new book came out while I was there, Ken Follett's sequel to Pillars of the Earth....for me to buy it there in Copenhagen would have cost $60 U.S. - here I bought it at Sam's Club for $14.99. Not to mention only about 6 hours of daylight in the wintertime, freezing wet cold and windy.....We couldn't wait to get back to sunny Mississippi! I will never complain about how hot it is here, ever again!

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Got swamped out with things lately and still half-way of the book. its very insightful........i like this line from the book...........We are built to make mistakes, coded for error..." the other day i picked up another book again..........Ask and it is Given............can't wait to read it................

Keep up the good work.............will post later when im free...

God Bless..

[Marina-Del 10]

Read the Sword of Truth series starting with Wizard's First Rule.

These are my all time favorite books ever. Love them!

[gracies 0]

I am thinking about starting a book club, open to anyone from any region. I've been reading a lot during this process and maybe you have too. We can pick a book read it and then talk about it as we go, or we can discuss books we have already read! I'm open for any suggestions. Reading has helped me pass the time and every once in a while someone mentions a book that they have read, an author they like....lets have a whole thread about what we read.

Hi..i wanna join...i read a lot too but this days more on fiction books.....

Jan

[easygoingcouple 0]

OK, I think it's fair to say we will not be reading War & Peace as our first selection Pardon me if I'm out of line with that prediction.

I've made a dent in Life of Pi and so far it's pretty interesting, although I would qualify as one of those "muddled agnostics" he's talking about, and also one of those people who thinks that animals would rather NOT be in a zoo, unless perhaps it's the only home they've ever known.

That said, I'm going to stick with it and see where it goes. The cover has a picture of a person and a tiger lying on a surfboard (or is it a boat) with sharks swimming all around them, and I'd like to see how that turns out...

Anyone else have any other nominations?

Maya

PS this thread was languishing on page 4 today

Life of Pi gets infinitely better once the whole boat thing happens I agree that I was a bit over the whole beginning story part, but once he gets on the lifeboat, I didn't want to put it down. Hang in there!!

So....are we going to vote, or what?

Stick with it for 93 pages, it gets brilliant and ends even better.

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MissMissy

Will vote for A Thousand Splendid Sun...............