December 2016

December

We had a delightful soup & salad potluck at Barbara's.  Gift books were traded, and we all were good little girls who remembered and followed Kathy's Rule Concerning the Christmas Book Exchange:  No Shitty Books!

The November 2016 Long List

The Light Between Oceans - M.L. Stedman

Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson

LaRose  - Louise Erdrich

Commonwealth - Ann Paget

Atomic Weight of Love: A Novel  - Elizabeth J. Church

Sense of an Ending - Julian Barnes

Before the Fall - Noah Hawley

Miller's Valley - Anna Quindlen

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis - J.D. Vance

The Life We Buried - Allen Eskin

A Reliable Wife  - Robert Goolrick

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Reader's Choice - Malcolm Gladwell

November 2016

Tuesday, November 1 (Note date change because of Presidential election)

Bring book selections -- we will be choosing books for January-June.

House:  Carolyn
Dessert:  Carolyn
Review:  Rita

Book:  A Small Hotel by Robert Olen Butler

October 2016

Tuesday, October 11

House: Sarah
Dessert: Talia
Review: Connie

Book:  The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin

September 2016

Tuesday, September 13

House: Talia's
In Place of Review:  Q & A with Talia
Dessert: Lynette

Title: The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee by Talia Tate Boerner

August 2016

Tuesday, August 9

House: Paula
Dessert:  Lynette
Review:  Judy

Book:  The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown

July 2016

Tuesday, July 19
12:00 High Tea at Barbara's

Suggested $5 donation to cover Barbara's costs for fabulous catering
Optional High Tea dress -- bring extra dress-up clothes and paraphernalia if you have them!

Reviewer: Sarah -- Read Sarah's notes, list of Pride and Prejudice metafiction, and Internet Movie Database Jane Austen films HERE.

Book:  Death at Pemberly by P.D. James

June 2016

Tuesday, June 14

Day at Nancy's Lake House
Meet at 11am at Vandergriff to carpool

Review: Nancy

Book:  A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

May 2016 Long List

Long List from May selections:

• Dead Wake by Erik Larson
• Trumbo by ???
• Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers by James Donovan and Jason Matthews
• Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
• The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende
• An Unecessary Women by Rabih Alameddine
• The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith
• The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir by Betsy Lerner

May 2016

Tuesday, May 10

William Faulkner Reader's Choice

April 2016

Tuesday, April 12

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

March 2016

Tuesday, March 8

Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King

February 2016

Tuesday, February

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

January 2016

Tuesday, January 12

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy