Been too long

Sorry it has been so long since I kept this up!   Cheri's book was Crazy Rich Asians.   Will meet in September or November of 2018

Book Club Book List

May 2008 - Present

 

1. Audition by Barbara Walters – Denise in May 2008  
2. Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum – Laurel
3. The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston – Malin
4. The Awakening by Kate Chopin – Loader
5. Are You There Vodka, It’s Me Chelsea by Chelsea Handler - Kenyon
6. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer – Cherie
7. The Stranger Besides Me by Ann Rule - Kimbril
8. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson – Rossi
9. Gods in Alabama by Joshily Jackson – Dana
10. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski – Denise
11. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen – Malin
12. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison – Loader
13. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer/Annie Barrows – Cherie
14. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole – Kathleen
15. Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger – Kenyon
16. The Shack by William P. Young – Laurel
17. Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster -
18. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden – Rossi
19. Still Alice by Lisa Genova – Laurel
20. One Dead in the Attic by Chris Rose – Cherie
21. Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay – Paula
22. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson – Malin
23. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick – Denise
24. Life of Pi by Yann Martel - 
25. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides – Kimbril
26. The Help by Kathryn Stockett – Dana
27. The 19^th Wife by David Ebershoff -
28. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins -
29. Aberrations by Penelope Przekop – Paula
30. The Room by Emma Donoghue – Kenyon
31. The Kitchen by Robert Alexander -
32. The Long Walk by Richard Bachman -
33. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro -
34. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain – Dana
35. A Dog’s Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron – Cherie
36. A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard – Kimbril
37. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston – Denise
38. Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs – Paula
39. The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom – Kenyon
40. The Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann – Rossi
41. Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand – Malin
42. 50 Shades of Grey by E. L. James – Kimbril
43. The Life Boat by Charlotte Rogan – Dana
44. The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh – Cherie
45. The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls - Loader
46. Gold by Chris Cleave – Denise
47. When She Woke by Hillary Jordan – Paula
48. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – Kenyon
49. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – Rossi
50. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer – Malin
51. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett – Paula
52. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – Kimbril
53. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd - Dana
54. The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty – Denise
55. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins -
56. Deep Down Dark by Hector Tobar – Malin
     

MISSING/OUT OF ORDER BELOW

57. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
58. The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
59. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
60. Defending Jacob by William Landay
61. The Art of Happiness – Dalai Lama
62. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith  
63. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt – Denise    
64. Summer House by Nancy Thayer – Cherie
65. Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson -
66. League of Denial by Mark Fainaru-Wada – Paula
67. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer –
68. The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin -
69. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes – Kimbril  
70. The Swans of Fifth Avenue by Melanie Benjamin – Malin
71. Astronauts Wives Club by Lily Koppel – Paula
72. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross – Dana
73. When Elves Attack by Tim Dorsey – Cherie
74. The Vegetarian by Han Kang – Denise  - February 2017
75. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel – Loader – April 2017
76. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – Malin - June 2017
77. The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena –  
78. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman - Dana - 2018
79. Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan – Cherie – August 2018
80.  The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee – Paula - September 2018

           

 

Thursday March 3rd 7pm at Besito

BOOK CLUB 2016

Thursday March 3rd 7pm at Besito (Westshore Mall)

The Swans of Fifth Avenue – by Melanie Benjamin

http://www.amazon.com/The-Swans-Fifth-Avenue-Novel/dp/0345528697

The New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York’s “Swans” of the 1950s—and the scandalous, headline-making, and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley.

Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue, and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially among her friends—the alluring socialite Swans Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness, and Pamela Churchill. By all appearances, Babe has it all: money, beauty, glamour, jewels, influential friends, a prestigious husband, and gorgeous homes. But beneath this elegantly composed exterior dwells a passionate woman—a woman desperately longing for true love and connection.

Enter Truman Capote. This diminutive golden-haired genius with a larger-than-life personality explodes onto the scene, setting Babe and her circle of Swans aflutter. Through Babe, Truman gains an unlikely entrée into the enviable lives of Manhattan’s elite, along with unparalleled access to the scandal and gossip of Babe’s powerful circle. Sure of the loyalty of the man she calls “True Heart,” Babe never imagines the destruction Truman will leave in his wake. But once a storyteller, always a storyteller—even when the stories aren’t his to tell.

Truman’s fame is at its peak when such notable celebrities as Frank and Mia Sinatra, Lauren Bacall, and Rose Kennedy converge on his glittering Black and White Ball. But all too soon, he’ll ignite a literary scandal whose repercussions echo through the years. The Swans of Fifth Avenue will seduce and startle readers as it opens the door onto one of America’s most sumptuous eras.

Friday April 22nd 7pm OR Saturday April 23rd 10am breakfast - J.C.

June - Paula

August - Kimbril

October - Dana

December - Denise or Cherie? 

April 24th Book Club Dana

Sorry I have been a slacker about posting. 

Just to recap... 

January 2015 book club hosted by Jennifer Malin was Deep Down Dark.  Here is the fabulous photo from ROUX!

We have rescheduled April Book Club from the 10th to the 24th.  
Dana will keep you posted.  

The Girl on the Train

by Paula Hawkins (Author)
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, January 2015: Intersecting, overlapping, not-quite-what-they-seem lives. Jealousies and betrayals and wounded hearts. A haunting unease that clutches and won’t let go. All this and more helps propel Paula Hawkins’s addictive debut into a new stratum of the psychological thriller genre. At times, I couldn’t help but think: Hitchcockian. From the opening line, the reader knows what they’re in for: “She’s buried beneath a silver birch tree, down towards the old train tracks…” But Hawkins teases out the mystery with a veteran’s finesse. The “girl on the train” is Rachel, who commutes into London and back each day, rolling past the backyard of a happy-looking couple she names Jess and Jason. Then one day Rachel sees “Jess” kissing another man. The day after that, Jess goes missing. The story is told from three character’s not-to-be-trusted perspectives: Rachel, who mourns the loss of her former life with the help of canned gin and tonics; Megan (aka Jess); and Anna, Rachel’s ex-husband’s wife, who happens to be Jess/Megan’s neighbor. Rachel’s voyeuristic yearning for the seemingly idyllic life of Jess and Jason lures her closer and closer to the investigation into Jess/Megan’s disappearance, and closer to a deeper understanding of who she really is. And who she isn’t. This is a book to be devoured. -Neal Thompson

Final 2014 dates

Amy Gall - August (possibly Thursday August 7 or Friday August 8)
Jennifer Malin - September

Cherie - October/November

June The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty - Canceled

The Husband's Secret

by 

Liane Moriarty

Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. . . .

Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all—she’s an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, and a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything, and not just for her: Rachel and Tess barely know Cecilia—or each other—but they too are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband’s secret.

Acclaimed author Liane Moriarty has written a gripping, thought-provoking novel about how well it is really possible to know our spouses—and, ultimately, ourselves.

May Book Club Canceled

April 2014 The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd - Dana - canceled

canceled meeting

The newest Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 selection: this special eBook edition of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd features exclusive content, including Oprah’s personal notes highlighted within the text, and a reading group guide.

Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world.

Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is hemmed in by the limits imposed on women.

Kidd’s sweeping novel is set in motion on Sarah’s eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership of ten year old Handful, who is to be her handmaid. We follow their remarkable journeys over the next thirty five years, as both strive for a life of their own, dramatically shaping each other’s destinies and forming a complex relationship marked by guilt, defiance, estrangement and the uneasy ways of love. As the stories build to a riveting climax, Handful will end

Inspired by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke, Kidd goes beyond the record to flesh out the rich interior lives of all of her characters, both real and invented, including Handful’s cunning mother, Charlotte, who courts danger in her search for something better.

This exquisitely written novel is a triumph of storytelling that looks with unswerving eyes at a devastating wound in American history, through women whose struggles for liberation, empowerment, and expression will leave no reader unmoved.

ure loss and sorrow, finding courage and a sense of self in the process. Sarah will experience crushed hopes, betrayal, unrequited love, and ostracism before leaving Charleston to find her place alongside her fearless younger sister, Angelina, as one of the early pioneers in the abolition and women’s rights movements.