Book Ends

My book club will celebrate it’s third birthday in November. We are a group of middle school teachers and the books we read range from young adult novels to your normal “book club books” you see on the best sellers list. If you are in the market for a good read, I’d recommend most of the following (there were a couple that I abandoned after giving them my very best try!)…. I bolded the crowd favorites.

Nov. 2004 Big Stone Gap By Adriana Trigiani
Dec. 2004 Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim By David Sedaris
Jan. 2005 Winterdance By Gary Paulsen
Feb. 2005 The Kite Runner By Khaled Hosseini
April 2005 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time By Mark Haddon
May 2005 My Sister’s Keeper By Jodi Picoult
June 2005 The Mermaid Chair By Sue Monk Kidd
Sept. 2005 The Life of Pi By Yann Martel
Oct. 2005 Speak By Lauri Halse Anderson
Nov. 2005 Good Grief By Lolly Winston
Jan. 2006 Wicked By Gregory Maguire
(This book inspired our FANTASTIC FIELD TRIP to Chicago to see Wicked, the Broadway Musical!!)
Feb. 2006 Brief Intervals of Horrible Sanity By Elizabeth Gold
Mar. 2006 Night By Elie Weisel
April 2006 The Pact By Jodi Picoult
May 2006 Are Men Necessary? By Maureen Dowd
June 2006 Queen Bees and Wannabees By Rosalind Wiseman
July 2006 Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog By John Grogan
Aug. 2006 The Ruins By Scott Smith
Oct. 2006 The Poisonwood Bible By Barbara Kingsolver
Nov. 2006 Al Capone Does My Shirts By Gennifer Choldenk & The Old Willis Place By Mary Downing Hahn
Dec. 2006 The Devil in the White City By Erik Larson
Jan. 2007 The Time Traveler’s Wife By Audrey Niffenegger
Feb. 2007 The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger
April 2007 Nineteen Minutes By Jodi Picoult  (The group attended a talk by the author)
May 2007 The Book Thief By Markus Zusak
June 2007 To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
July 2007 Angels and Demons By Dan Brown
Aug. 2007 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows By J. K. Rowling
 

Coming up next are:

September- A Thousand Splendid Suns ( by the author of The Kite Runner)

October- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

November- Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (plus a trip to see The Kite Runner movie!)

 

 

I promise- no spoilers!

I return to the land of the living… or at least the land of the blogging. Oh how I love reading into the wee hours of the morning in order to finish a great book. The final installment of Harry Potter (no, I promise not to give anything away) was just plain fabulous. I had several suspicions and a little over half of them were correct. Funny moments in books usually make me smile and they have to be down right hilarious to make me actually laugh out loud- this one succeeded. If you’ve read Deathly Hallows, I am referring to the scene with Mrs. Weasley and Bellatrix Lestrange. My favorite scene? Harry walking into the woods. That one really got to me. Wow.

The next in my reading line up is The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America by Bill Bryson. I’ve barely started it and am already really enjoying myself. Someone recommended his humorous writing style and I think I could get hooked.

In the world-o-crafting, I am trying to finish up the tea towels for my best friend’s birthday. I am doing them as a set of seven, and plan to embroider the days of the week on them. I am pondering the possibility of adding some extra pizzazz to them- perhaps a “Manic Monday” or a “Sassy Saturday”. Thoughts? As I mentioned before, the designs are quite a bit more modern than your grandma’s geese in bonnets.

 Sorry for the lame photos. I used the digital camera instead of the Digital Camera. I’ll have to right that wrong later.

Potterville

My work on both my Christmas quilt and this little blog will be a little less regular for a while. We have a visitor at our house. 

 

If you are currently in the market for a great read (Mr. Potter excluded), I strongly suggest Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. I finished it last night so that I could meet up again with Harry and Company. It was one of the best books I’ve read in a while.

 Be back later!