Welcome to the blog!! We are excited to be starting this endeavor with all of you!
To start off, we wanted to get some feedback from you, our readers, on what you've been reading and what you enjoy. Our hope is that this will allow us to get to know each other a little bit better.
So...tell us about the last book you read and loved. And tell us why you loved it.
What book are you reading right this minute? (Besides "To Kill a Mockingbird".)
What book are you looking forward to reading? Where did you hear about it?
Again, welcome everybody and happy reading!
Hi All,
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited to be part of this book club - it's my first book club! :-) I've just started to "read" Mockingbird (we listened to it in the car on the drive to Omaha).
The last book I read and loved was "These is my Words" by Nancy Turner. It's a story of a pioneer woman's life in the Arizona Territory. I absolutely loved it! (my mom recommended it, she usually recommends all the books I read) Life seemed to be much simpler then, but so full of hardship and mishap. This is a story of a strong woman who works her way through life. Her story of overcoming and persevering and loving. Very great read! I'd HIGHLY recommend it!!
Currently I'm reading "The Happiest Toddler on the Block" to brush up on my parenting skills. I'm learning how to communicate better with my Toddler...supposedly.
Looking forward to others' comments.
- JiLL
I wouldn't classify myself as a reader at all. I read magazines, newspapers, church books but that really sums up my reading. I envy people when they talk about books they've read or are reading. They seem to be interesting people. Maybe this book club will make me one of those people.
ReplyDeleteI have started Mockingbird but I'm eager to get into the meat of it all. Right now I'm on page 32. Bill has scheduled the movie on Netflix but says he is going to read the book also. I will most likely watch the movie with him.
I'm looking forward to reading everyones comments and being a participant in this book club.
I just finished Julia Child's "My Life in France" and loved it. This should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me. Slap the word France on something and I fall in love. Much credit to Julia who wrote a fantastic story about the years she spent with her husband in France.
ReplyDeleteI am currently reading a number of books: "A New Earth" by Ekhart Tolle, "Eat, Pray Love", and "Guerrilla Marketing" in hopes of making my photography business boom. I'm also reading a number of cookbooks. :)
I'm not currently on the search for a new book but they always seem to fall into my lap which is fine with me.
I have read To Kill A Mockingbird at least twice, but it's been about 10 years since the last time I read it. Time to read it again. I may have to listen to it on my drive to and from work, since my "free time" is dwindling fast with the fall quarter fast approaching. :(
ReplyDeleteThe last book I read all the way through (my last book club chose some less than desirable books) was probably Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri; a great collection of short stories about Indian immigrants in America. (FYI, I spared you all the titles I've been reading in preparation for all the new curriculum in this upcoming school year.) I'm also listening to Three Cups of Tea in my car, but I think I need to read it myself because they reader's voice is REALLY annoying so I find myself blocking it out. Seriously, where do they pick these people???
recently I read a book called "Monkey". it is a translation of a classic chinese story about a monkey who is given the task of retrieving Buddhist scriptures from India. I really liked it because it is a lot of fun to read but is also an allegory of the road to enlightenment.
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moment, I think one at a time is quite enough, thank you. I am thoroughly enjoying TO Kill a Mockingbird, having never read it in my youth due to poor Florida schools.
While I have many books on my list, one I am looking forward to is Hunger Games. Like my sister, it was recommended by my mother, and I have also seen some of my friends reading it, so it could be good.
Glad to be a part of my first book club!
Well, enjoyed the above comments. I am working my way through a Madeline L'Engle young adult fiction called A Ring of Endless Light for one of my next book club meetings. It's definitely young adult fiction, but it's also M. L'Engle so we'll see what the verdict is when I finish. Just finished listening to Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose. It was the account of the Lewis and Clark exploration. I thought it was very interesting, but don't think I could have read the whole thing, glad I listened to it.
ReplyDeleteAm off to a quilt retreat next week so I don't know how much reading I'll get done. Usually I listen to books while I sew downstairs, but with all my quilting friends around me for a week it would be rude to put in my ear phones and listen to a book.
I enjoyed the links Beth/Dane put up about Harper Lee. Anybody up for a field trip to Alabama??
Hi Everyone! I'm excited to join, this being my 2nd book club I've ever been a member of. I recently finished 2 books written in the 1920's? - Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol and it's sequel Martin Conisby's Vengeance. They are very well written books, with full-bodied believable characters and lots of adventure and romance. It takes a couple chapters to get into the language of the period, but once I got the hang of it the books just swept me off my feet!
ReplyDeleteI'm really looking forward to Hunger Games and it's sequel. I'm 5th on the waiting list to get Hunger Games at the library. On my e-reader I have maybe 20-30 books I'm finding time to read, but I'm setting them all aside for Mockingbird. I am currently looking for To Kill A Mockingbird as a free PDF file (so I don't have to tote the book around with me). Does anyone have it?
The most recent book I read was called "Writing on the Wall". It was sort of silly, the first of a 3 part mormon series, and I don't really think I will read the rest of them...
ReplyDeleteI guess when I think if the type of books that really captivate me, usually the easy-breezy novels don't hold me in very long. I love books that have social messages or teach me something. The book I read right before that one was called "360 Degrees Longitude".
I loved it!
It was a memoir written by a father who took his wife and 2 children, ages 8 and 11, on a trip around the world for 365 days.
I am excited to be a part of this because I discovered that even though I never thought of myself as a "reader", when I have something really really good to read, I love it.
What a terrific combination of books read and being read.
ReplyDeleteThe last book I 'read' (on CD) and loved was "Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu." Non-fiction. Altho I had a child's grasp of who he was and the fact that he visited China, I found this book fascinating and feel I learned a lot.
I'm currently listening to "A World Lit Only by Fire" by William Manchester. He's famous for writing "Death of A President" about JFK's death back in the 1960's. I've listened to this book at least once previously and possibly portions of it a 2nd time prior to my current reading. It deals with life primarily in Europe from the end of the Dark Ages to and including the early Renaissance period. Highly recommended.
I'm with you Em on reading voices. I have a couple of faves and can almost (almost) listen to any book they read just because of their voice. One of them is Scott Brick.
Tiffanie, you asked about a free PDF file of Mockingbird. Our library has an alternate site with titles that can be downloaded in a number of formats and yours might too. I've used ours for audio file downloads. I just checked it and it doesn't carry Mockingbird which makes me wonder if there are some restrictions on accessing it. Good luck.
I watched most of the Mockingbird movie last week. Definitely an alternate method of 'reading' the book.
What do we do now? I finished the book. Has anyone read it or finished it? There are a couple of things that I learned from this book.
ReplyDelete1. I felt like an interesting person. I always look at people at airports and on planes and wonder what they are reading. I always have a magazine so I wondered if people were looking at me wondering what I was reading. All the people I know who read alot are interesting people. They have alot to say and are interesting to talk to. So I felt interesting for the couple of weeks I was reading this book.
2. Maybe the reason I don't read too many books is because it takes one really captivating to keep me going. To me, it took a while to get to the plot of the story and then it only lasted a short while. I got a little disinterested in the neighborhood events of Scout and Jem.
So, now I've read the classic To Kill A Mockingbird. What is the book for October?
yea, what is the next book?
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