2018 in Review

History of Wolves, Emily Fridlund (Jan)
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle (Feb)
Citizen, Claudia Rankin (April)
Claire of the Sealight, Edwidge Danticat (May)
I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Erika Sánchez (June)
Emma by Jane Austen and Clueless (Aug)
Severance, Ling Ma (Oct)
The Witch Elm, Tana French (Nov.)

2017 in Review

Swing Time, Zadie Smith (Feb.)
Today Will Be Different, Maria Semple (March)
Underground Airlines, Ben Winters (April)
The Sun is Also a Star, Nicola Yoon (May)
Women, Race and Class, Angela Davis (July)
The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer (Sept)
Everything I Never Told You, by Celeste Ng (Oct.)
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (Dec.)

2016 in Review

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (Jan.)
The Secret History of Wonder Woman, by Jill Lapore (Feb.)
Ugly Girls, by Lindsay Hunter (April)
How to Build a Girl, Caitlin Moran (June)
The Country of Ice Cream Star, Sandra Newman (July)
Men Explain Things to Me, by Rebecca Solnit (Sept)
The Heart Goes Last, by Margaret Atwood (Nov.)

2014 In Review

Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Jennifer Lawson
Tenth of December, George Saunders
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris
Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowel
Cuckoo's Calling, Robert Gilbraith
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

2015 in review

Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, Robin Sloan (Jan)
Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler (Feb)
Bad Feminist, Roxanne Gay (April)
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (May)
The Wallcreeper, Nell Zink (June)
On Immunity, Eula Biss (July)
Tampa, Alissa Nutting (Oct.)
Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Karen Russell (Dec.)

January 2015: Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

October: A Tale for the Time Being

August: The Cuckoo's Calling

July: Eleanor & Park

May: Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

March: Americanah

The Tenth of December

Next book is George Saunder's Tenth of December.

Also, Sylvie met all the ladies at book club and proved to be a real charmer!

January 2014: Let's Pretend This Never Happened

Let's Pretend This Never Happened, by Jennifer Lawson

2013 History

This is How You Lose Her, Juno Diaz
The Book Thief, Markus Zusack
The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester
How to Be a Woman, Caitlin Moran
NW, Zadie Smith
Bridget Jones 1 & 2, Helen Fielding
Scruples, Judith Krantz
Life After Life, Kate Atkinson
Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver

2013 Oct/Nov.

November

October

2013 January-August

Oops - I haven't been keeping up.... here's what we've read so far in 2013!

August

July

June

May

 April

March

January

The Rules of Civility

December's selection:

What a great book club we had!  I guess it didn't hurt that I handed everyone an Aviation the moment they walked in the door.  We had a rollicking discussion over Rules of Civility, which was largely panned by the group, but not hated by those that listened to the audio version.

We also had a White Elephant Book Exchange, which was such a hoot.  Stand-out books were Jacqueline Suzanne's biography, Where Babies Come From, and 50 Shades of Grey.

After Henry

After Henry, by Joan Didion, for November.

Check it out, the British edition is called Sentimental Journeys.

Little Brother, Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow is a proponent of Creative Commons, anti-DRM - there are lots copies of his book available for (free!) download here.  Wondering why he does that?  Read this.

Valley of the Dolls

We read the book


and then watched the movie in my backyard!  Super-fun book club!