June 2017

Tuesday, June 13, Time TBD
     Potluck @ Nancy's Lake House

      As in previous years, we'll probably drive out late morning with lunch, review and water activities as desired to ensue after arrival!

Reviewer:  DeAnn

Book:  Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

Those Arkansas Authors in Our Past

2016 - The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee -- Talya Tate Boerner
2014 - The Red Kimono - Jan Merrill
            With - Donald Harington
2013 - Elizabeth and Hazel - David Margolick
2008 - Girl in the Tangerine Scarf - Mona Kahf
2005 - When Money Grew on Trees - David Mac
1996 - Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock - Jack Butler
1993 - Douglas Jones’ reader’s choice
1992 - The Choiring of the Trees - David Harington
1988 - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
1986 - The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks - Donald Harington
1985 - Victory over Japan - Ellen Gilchrist

May 2017

Tuesday, May 9th
     We'll be choosing books this month, so bring your favorites.

House:  Paula
Dessert:  Paula
Review:  Mim

Book:  The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics by Jeremy Schaap

April 2017

Tuesday, April 11th

House:  Connie
Dessert:  Nancy
Review:  Crystal

Book:  The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

March 2017

Tuesday, March 14

House:  Judy
Dessert:  Judy
Review:  Judy

Book:  The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

February 2017

Tuesday, February 21st (Note the change in date!)

House:  Rita
Dessert:  Rita
Review:  DeAnn

Book:  Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman

January 2017

Tuesday, January 10

House:  Tayla
Dessert:  Lynnette
Review:  Carolyn

Book:  Reader's Choice by Louise Penny

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 Talya
Dessert: Lynette

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