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Book Club Junkie: October 2011
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Monday, October 10, 2011. A Room with No View. While on vacation, I decided I get to read one or two books that I don't NEED to read, but just want to. I've been wanting to read. By Emma Donoghue for a while now, and finally got my chance. Several times now I've had to tell someone what I'm reading and try to describe what it is about. It's just not that easy! It sounds so horrible. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). My Other Blogs (because my husband can't listen to me talk 24/7). Friday Noon Movie Club. We ar...
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Book Club Junkie: March 2012
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012. Fab 5 Book Club: The Glass Castle. Tonight the Fab 5 had yet another intense, esoteric book discussion. I actually had to look up esoteric just now to make sure it meant what I wanted to say, which, once you read the definition is rather ironic. I’ll let you get your own dictionary if you need to. Anyway. The Fab 5 tackled. Walls is a great writer, and she manages to tell incredibly sad stories with beauty and wit. That almost goes without saying, since this dark family tal...
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Book Club Junkie: September 2012
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Thursday, September 20, 2012. Saving Lives and Eating Apple Crisp. How do you grieve the loss of a loved one? In How to Save a Life. A young adult novel by Sara Zarr, high school senior Jill is mourning the recent loss of her father. But her immediate problem is that her mother has decided to adopt a baby from a pregnant teen they’ve never met. And that teen is coming to live with them. Zarr herself said in an interview with The Williams Telos that she “. Never wanted to wind up in a position where I was...
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Book Club Junkie: The Lifeboat: Save It or Throw It Overboard?
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Monday, October 28, 2013. The Lifeboat: Save It or Throw It Overboard? Well, after an unintentional year-long sabbatical, thought it might be time to get back at it. I have no excuse to offer as to why I’ve stopped blogging; I haven’t stopped reading! He Fab 5 Book Club has not stopped reading either. Tonight we tackled. And finally we gave in and actually talked about the book. Is a story about just what it sounds like, a lifeboat. The. A fictional ocean liner crossing the Atlantic just 2 years after the.
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Book Club Junkie: April 2012
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Monday, April 23, 2012. New "Birds" of America. Birds of a Lesser Paradise. A collection of short stories by Megan Mayhew Bergman, explores the relationship of people to animals, of humanity to nature. Those timely themes are the ribbon tying together a gift of well-crafter stories that deliver like Alice Munro without most of Munro’s creepiness. One of Bergman’s stories involves a woman whose boyfriend (named Malachi, no less) runs an environmentalist group. This group requires a pledge of ...Charact...
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Book Club Junkie: February 2012
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Friday, February 24, 2012. Wendell Berry's "Jayber Crow". Last night the Fab 5 met to choose our books for the next six months, a meeting that is always filled with anticipation. And very difficult decision-making. Four people brought 36 books. Yikes. We pored over them, and in the end were rewarded with a list of 6 books we are very excited to read. But now I go back to our last meeting, when we discussed. This book is about Jayber, first and foremost, a man you come to love. It is also about small ...
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Book Club Junkie: January 2012
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Mansions and Madness, Oh My! You might enjoy this one. The book has a great combination of interesting characters and a setting so well described that you can smell the dank, unused rooms in the far reaches of the castle. The author is a bit too wordy at times, telling the reader too much about how what the character is thinking rather than letting the reader figure some of it out. But overall a satisfying read. Sunday, January 29, 2012. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.
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Book Club Junkie: July 2012
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Friday, July 27, 2012. Learning "The Language of Flowers". Victoria spent much of her life in foster care, until Elisabeth. Elisabeth was determined to make this volatile young woman her daughter. Then something happened that ended the relationship, but we don’t know what. Now Victoria is turning 18 and is aging out of the group home she’s been living in. What do you do when you are alone in the world with nothing to your name, expected to somehow create a life for yourself? The Fab 5 read. There was one...
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Book Club Junkie: Learning "The Language of Flowers"
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Friday, July 27, 2012. Learning "The Language of Flowers". Victoria spent much of her life in foster care, until Elisabeth. Elisabeth was determined to make this volatile young woman her daughter. Then something happened that ended the relationship, but we don’t know what. Now Victoria is turning 18 and is aging out of the group home she’s been living in. What do you do when you are alone in the world with nothing to your name, expected to somehow create a life for yourself? The Fab 5 read. There was one...
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Book Club Junkie: December 2011
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Saturday, December 24, 2011. Friday Noon Movie Club: The Nonstop Adventures of Tintin. Yesterday the Friday Noon Movie Club met for its Christmas week outing:. The Adventures of Tintin. Have included a preview for the reincarnation of. In 3D First of all, why? But more to the point, why at a kids’ movie? Thanks to an old. Comic book that dealt extensively with. The Adventures of Tintin. Second, it is Steven Spielberg’s revisitation of. Raiders of the Lost Ark. Throwback, but IMHO really has no place in a...
