Books read:

The Painted Veil- Maughn/Grace
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier - Baah/Hilary
I Am Somebody- O'Faolain/Beth
Oryx and Crake - Atwood/Deb
Water for Elephants - Gruen/Anne
Three Cups of Tea - Morgenson/Kathy (via Grace)
Inheritance of Loss- Desai/Julie
Kabul Beauty School –Rodriguez/Kathy
Life of Pi - Martell/ Anne?
Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores - Marquez/Beth
House of Mirth - Wharton/ Julie
Sloe Man - Cotzee/ Beth
Blackbird House - Hoffman/Hilary
Loving Frank -Horan /Grace
Obasan - Kogawa/Marie
Embroideries, Chicken With Plums - Satrapi /Deb
Reading Lolita in Tehran- Nafisi/Julie
Moments of Being – Wolfe/Anne
Northanger Abbey - Austen/Beth
Snowflower and the Secret Fan - See/Grace
Night - O'Brien/Hilary
A Blind Eye - Brookner/Marie
Master of the Moor - Rendell/Deb
Kaaterskill Falls - Allegra Goodman/Julie
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan/?
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout/Nancy
Old Goriot-Henri Balzac/Marie
Runaway-Alice Munro/Nancy
Breath, Eyes, Memory-Edwidge Danicat/Julie
Point Omega - Don Delillo/Kathy
Portrait in Sepia - I. Allende/Beth
Tender is the Night - F Scott Fiztgerald/Grace
A Dog's Life - Peter Mayle/Beth
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson/Hilary
And Now You Can Go - Vendela Vida/Julie
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien/Nancy
Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones/Julie
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner/Kathy
The Little Disturbances of Man - Grace Paley/Beth
Feasting, Fasting - Anita Desai/Julie
Let the Great World Spin - Colum McCann/Kathy
People of the Book - Geraldine Brooks/Beth
White Teeth - Zadie Smith/Grace
Native Speaker - Chang-rae Lee/Beth
Heat & Dust - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala/Grace

Next Read - In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje/Nancy
February 24 @ Beth's

Never know what you might find in the parking lot...

 

Mysteries of Pittsburgh – Michael Chabon/Beth

Grendel –  John Gardner/Kathy

In the Shadow of Gotham – Stefanei Pintoff/Kathy

Anansi Boys  – Niell Gaimon/Deb

On Beauty – Zadie Smith/Grace

Pigeon Feathers –John Updike/Nancy

The Progress of Love  – Alice Munro/Nancy

Childhoods End – Arthur Clarke/Julie

The Other Side – Mary Gordon/Julie

Book of Clouds – Chloe Aridjis/Julie

The Old Capitol – Yasunari Kawabata/Beth

Making It Up – Penelope Lively/Nancy

Photograph – Penelope Lively/Nancy

Pattern in the Carpet – Margaret Drabble/Julie

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant – Tyler/Julie
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller/Julie

Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood/Julie

The Family Markowitz - Allegra Goodman/Julie 
Rabbit Run - John Updike

Cellist of Sarajevo - Seven Gallowway

The Traveller - John Twelve Hawkes/Julie

Bookseller of Kabul-Asne Seierstad/

Why the Cocks Fight - Michele Wuker

The Lovers - Venda Lavida/Julie

Running in the Family - Michael Ondaatje/

Three Junes - Julia Glass/Grace

Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri/Grace

Out Stealing Horses - Pers Pedersen/Beth

Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway/Julie
Ballad of the Sad Cafe - Carson McCullers/Grace
Where I Was From - Joan Didion/Julie
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
The White Albumn - Joan Didion/Kathy
Just Kids - Patty Smith/Julie
Blue Nights - Joan Didion/Julie
Thousand Cranes - Yansunari Kawabata/Beth
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood/Julie
The Tiger's Wife - Téa Obreht /Grace

Rendezvous with Rama -Arthur Clarke/Julie

April 6 - Ian McEwan
April 13 - Allice Walker: On Activisim
Join Alice Walker--poet, anthologist, activist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist--as she discusses our accountability to stop violence around the world. Her new book, Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palestine/Israel, is Walker’s reflection on recent trips to these locations and our responsibility as human beings to respond to the violence she witnessed.
Amy Goodman, investigative journalist and host of Democracy Now!, will join Walker for this revealing discussion

 

Beth has signed us up for the Elizabeth Strout meet the author event at Manhattanville on Tuesday, November 3rd, from 7:00-8:30. 

Thanks, Beth!

In case anyone's interested, here's a list of my favorite book group selections to date, in no particular order.

Everyone should have recieved e-mail invitations to be Bastings blog authors. In democratic style, we all have equal rights to the same admin processes.  Feel free to dig in!

I also sent invites to join Google Calendar, because that is the easiest way I can figure to set up a Book Club calendar on this blog.  It will give you access to edit and view events.  The calender is exclusively for our club.

In other news, I added Reading Lolita in Tehran to the Amazon widget (right side of this page).  There was one other book mentioned at our last meeting and for the life of me, I cannot remember the title. Please help!

Hello Ladies!

This is our very own Book Club blog, where we can continue our conversations, add suggestions, maintain our reading list, and even share recipes.  The format is open.  If you have received your invitation to author this blog, it means you can post whatever you like, whenever you want to.

I have not used this particular platform before, but it seems to be one of the only free systems that allows multiple authors and has a fairly simple administrative panel.  I'm still learning myself, but if you have questions about blogging I'll try to answer them as best I can.  Hopefully their help desk will indeed be helpful.

Welcome and enjoy!

- Hilary