Book Club, Let's Get Started Again

I am sorry I have been very busy:

Ok here is the plan. We are going to start posting the Book Club info here.

We will still try to read one book a month and then at the end of the month complete a questionaire.

If you involved in the reading for this month.. you may want to add a tag line. And we may want to discuss this in PM with each other. I think Pm b/c I know I people will get to different parts at different times.

So let's pick for NEXT month. Due to me getting this done so LATE. Lets just all get our books ordered and ready..

Book Suggestions Please!

Mel

Thought the Lipstick Chronicles sounded good... someone mentioned that before..

Oh, i just had another thought! maybe instead of trying to decide on a book as a group, we can make a list of who's doing the book group activley and each month a different person is assigned to pick a book. That way we aren't trying to decide for 2 weeks and never getting the choices of some people read. ALso it broadens our reading span cause while everyone may not agree to a certain book, they may really enjoy it after they have read it.
Just a thought!

Well I just started reading Can You Keep A Secret by Sophie Kinsella, the author of Shopaholic and Sister. I'm only 15 pages into it so I can put it aside if something else is picked.

I'm not sure I'll get it done in a month though but I'll try. I'm also reading The Happiest Baby on the Block for some tips on my extremely colicky Megan, so it's my first priority right now .

I like this idea. I think we spend too much time deciding. What do you think Mel?

Umm I also like the idea. I think it will givea all of us a chance to read something different that our fellow readers might have liked and not really us.

I just don't want to get into a "it's my turn to pick" and I was left out thing. I don't want to accidently hurt any ones feelings.

I think we are all mature enough to get along, but I just wanted to state that.

Ok opinions everyone?

Mel

Okay, anyone who is planning to be in it and wants to pick a book post here. We'll go in alphabetical order or something so that it is fair. How's that?

I have.....

Amymom
Aspenblue1
Boogabearzmom
Cam&Kat'sMom
GavinsMommy
jcc64
Kimberley
Mammag
MommytoJade
Panther'sGirl
Tanner'sMom

These are the people who have responded to the last couple of posts about it. Anyone else interested? Or anyone on the list who no longer wants to join in?

I'm in and I like that it is pinned so if I don't get on for few days I will know whatgoing on. Any book is fine with me.

This post has been edited by amymom on Apr 24 2005, 04:06 PM

Ok I am in..

If things get out of hand this way.. we will have to go back to the post a poll and vote way...lol Sorry I sound so negative.

Any one else want to add there name to the list.

Mel

This sounds good to me. Here's my reccommendation:
Little Bitty Lies

FROM THE PUBLISHER
In a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where divorce is as rampant as kudzu, Mary Bliss McGowan doesn't notice that her own marriage is in trouble until the summer night she finds a note from her husband, telling her he's gone—and taken the family fortune with him.
Stunned and humiliated, a desperate Mary Bliss, left behind with her seventeen-year-old daughter, Erin, and a mountain of debt, decides to salvage what's left of her life by telling one little bitty lie.

At first, Mary Bliss simply tells friends and family that Parker is out of town on a consulting job. Then the lies start to snowball, until Parker turns up dead. Or does he?

Mary Bliss's formerly staid existence careens into overdrive as she copes with an oversexed teenager, a mother-in-law with Ethel Merman delusions, and the sudden but delicious shock of finding herself pursued by two men: the next-door neighbor who's looking for a suitable second wife, and a dangerously attractive ex-cop who's looking for the truth about Parker McGowan.

Little Bitty Lies is a comic Southern novel about all the important things in life: marriage and divorce, mothers and daughters, friendship and betrayal, small-town secrets, and one woman's lifelong quest for home—and the perfect recipe for chicken salad.

FROM THE CRITICS

Ok I am picking a book. I will post tonight what it is.

I hope I do a good job!

You'll do fine! So we are going to try this out (going alphabetically) and if anyone doesn't like the way it's going feel free to let Mel or I know and we'll figure something else out.

Oh, can I jump in too?
If you guys like humor books, I'd recommend the Sweet Potato Queens Book of Love. It's hilarious

Of course Lisa, I'll add you to the list. Amymom (you 2 are confusing me with the names) is picking the first book and is going to let us know tonight what we are doing for May. What we can also do, when it is your turn to pick, is pick out a couple and have everyone vote on them however you want to do it. I'll pm you when your turn comes around.

Is everyone okay with alphabetical order or would you like to do it another way?

The book I picked is:
tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

I was able to get it at the local library. And it is available on Amazon.

The hardcover edition I have is 192 pages. There are many chapters but they are very short. Do we read a certain amount and then discuss? Or do we discuss when we are done reading?

I hope we all enjoy this book.

Oooh I think I read this book in college, but it's been a LONG time ago. Cool....now if I can get in to town to get the book, hee hee.

Well... Everyone here reads at a different pace. I have always discussed the books in a PM.. as not to ruin the story for everyone.

We may do a post that says what page is everyone on..as time goes on. Just to check.

Mel

Sounds good .. i'll pick it up tomorrow
going to the library for story hour.....

I have begun reading tuesdays with Morrie

Has anyone else? Are you liking it?

Well, I've been trying to read the book. Having just found out about the woman from the school getting diagnosed with ALS I'm having a hard time getting myself to read it.....I don't want to read anything too upsetting. Anyway, I've set my mind to getting it done this week.

Who all is reading? What do you or did you think so far?

ETA: I'm about 1/3 of the way through. So far, I think it had the potential to be really moving but it seems like he goes through things a little quickly, not giving the reader time to absorb each lesson or what have you. I think he would have been better served to focus on a few lessons and gone into more detail and emotion with them....jmo.



This post has been edited by mammag on May 17 2005, 05:28 AM

My library didn't have a copy available, so I am getting it from a friend tomorrow. It's been a very busy month, but i finally got to finish soem magazines i've been trying to get through

May I join? I love to read. I have plenty of time at work, about 5 hours every night to just sit there and read.

Well, we've started it a couple of times and it never really got anywhere so it's just kind of become extinct. I would love to have one but I don't think enough people were able to keep up with it.

Are you guys still doing the book club? I would love to join.