a truly authentic and novel (haha) book club
Posted on March 19, 2007 in the Uncategorized category
yes, i’m back – can you believe it? i didn’t even finish the 12 days of christmas yet – sheesh – but now that i have a new blog on my very own web site, i thought i would post some interesting info that would only appeal to me – well, this blog is kristinrohan.com – all kristin – all the time. who doesn’t love that!? so here’s the latest and greatest….
I LOVE TO READ – i love almost more than anything. i cannot get enough words in my brain. so you can imagine, that being in a book club is the most exciting things to me. i’ve been in book clubs before, and they were social and enjoyable and all that but i really wanted to be in a club where we discussed the book to death! and i think i found one!
my friends and i are starting in april and i am going to be the bookkeeper – keeper of the lists – how exciting – i always like to know what is happening – so here it is. i’ll comment on these books periodically (haha – get it?) but if my fans want to send other recommended books, please do. i’m sure i’ll have time to read ALL the emails.
tada! in no particular order (please pardon me if some of these are wrong – i haven’t cross-referenced them on the wide world of tubes:
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
THE LEGEND OF FIRE HORSE WOMAM, JEANNE WAKATSUKI HOUSTON
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES, CORMAC McCARTHY
BLINK, MALCOLM GLADWELL
GILEAD, MARILYN ROBINSON
ALL OVER CREATION, RUTH OZEKI
THE BOOK OF SALT, MONIQUE TRUONG
HANNAHCOULTER, WENDELL BERRY
JANE AUSTIN BOOK CLUB, KAREN JOY FOWLER
THE PASSION OF ARTEMESIA, SUSAN VREELAND
CATFISH AND MANDALA, ANDREW X. PHAM
SUITE FRANCAISE, IRENE NEMIROVSKY
FIDELITY, WENDELL BERRY (THAT DISTANT LAND
Short Stories)
MARCH, GERALDINE BROOKS
THE BLUEST EYE, TONI MORRISON**
THE GLASS CASTLE: A MEMOIR, JEANNETTE WALLS
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, SARA GRUEN
Plainsong – Kent Haruf – our guest writer, Lauren Cutter, has read this book and has this to say: Just finished reading Plainsong, by Kent Haruf. I loved it! It drew me in from the first page. The characters were very real, though experiencing a life so different from my own, they felt authentic. I’m a little sad that it’s done, but thankfully I have two more books by the same author.
Thanks, Lauren – I think I’ll check it out!
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