I came across this quote the other day and loved it. Enjoy your reading this week.
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficity disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss. "
— Nora Ephron (I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman)
Monday, November 15, 2010
So we don't forget
Lovely ladies
For a while we have talked about starting a book about book club; to record what we read, when and maybe even what we all thought about our choices. Then I thought that might be too last millennium. So here is a blog - shall we see how it goes?
First post to get us started - here is what we have read over the last two years:
2008
Julia - Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Vanda - The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
Georgie - The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
Jules S - The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
Olivia - Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Pearlman
Kate - The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Jen - A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
2009
January
Claire - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
February
Julia - One Big Damn Puzzler by John Harding
March
Georgie - Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
May
Jules S - White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Book Club outing to Ruben Guthrie at the Belvoir
June
Kate - The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
August
Olivia - The Boat by Nam Le
August
Naomi R - The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
September
Jen - The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
November
Claire - All the colours of the town by Liam McIlvanney
2010
January
Julia - Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Feb
Georgie - Measuring Time by Helon Habila
March
Olivia - The Group by Mary McCarthy
April
Kate - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
June
Naomi - The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
July
Sarah - The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Sept
Jen - Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda
For a while we have talked about starting a book about book club; to record what we read, when and maybe even what we all thought about our choices. Then I thought that might be too last millennium. So here is a blog - shall we see how it goes?
First post to get us started - here is what we have read over the last two years:
2008
Julia - Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Vanda - The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt
Georgie - The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch
Jules S - The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
Olivia - Seven Types of Ambiguity by Elliot Pearlman
Kate - The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Jen - A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
2009
January
Claire - Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
February
Julia - One Big Damn Puzzler by John Harding
March
Georgie - Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
May
Jules S - White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Book Club outing to Ruben Guthrie at the Belvoir
June
Kate - The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
August
Olivia - The Boat by Nam Le
August
Naomi R - The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
September
Jen - The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
November
Claire - All the colours of the town by Liam McIlvanney
2010
January
Julia - Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Feb
Georgie - Measuring Time by Helon Habila
March
Olivia - The Group by Mary McCarthy
April
Kate - The Road by Cormac McCarthy
June
Naomi - The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt
July
Sarah - The Human Stain by Philip Roth
Sept
Jen - Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda
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