One of the things I really wanted to do this year was to find a reading group.
After several months into the year, I finally decided to start my own. I emailed a bunch of friends from work and we started. Around the same time, I also enrolled in Palo Alto Menlo Park mom’s group and joined their book club, too. And just recently I decided to try out the local library’s book club, too, but they then shut down abruptly, so that one didn’t work out. But then my friend Kathy started a “children’s and young adult book club” and since I have not read most of kids books I thought that would be fun!
So far the one I started has read:
– Let the Great World Spin
– When You Reach Me
– Lonesome Dove
Up Next: The Forgotten Garden
The PAMP one read:
– The Post-Birthday World
– East of Eden
– The Happiness Project
We’ve already picked the books for the next six months and they are:
– Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham
– She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, by Jennifer Finney Boylan
– The Cookbook Collector, by Allegra Goodman
– Foreign Affairs, by Alison Lurie
– Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghese
– The Imperfectionists, by Tom Rachman
And finally, the list for the C.O.O.L. club (Children’s (Or Other) Lit) is:
– Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
– Island of the blue dolphins
– Peter and the starcatcher (Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson)
– Sisterhood of the traveling pants (Ann Brashares), Winnie leads/Kathy hosts
– Tales of a fourth grade nothing/Superfudge (Judy Blume)
– Ozma of Oz, Road to Oz (L. Frank Baum)
– The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
And I am really enjoying all of them. Just being a part of a book club is something I really like having in my life.
The Secret Garden is AMAzing. I think Dave and I read it twice together and he read it once again on his own. And we saw the movie. He got upset because it wasn’t “true to the book”. Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants was way so cool to read. Extremely well done. Judy Blume always impresses me. You will enjoy!