Current Bookshelf

(Bookshelf now updated as of 4/25/07 .)

CURRENTLY READING (May):

"Angels & Demons", Dan Brown (meeting on Thursday, May 17th)




















COMING ATTRACTIONS:

"The Turn of the Screw", Henry James (June)
"A Salty Piece of Land", Jimmy Buffett (July)
"Lord of the Flies", William Golding (August)

picking order for next 4 books after these: (Paul, Melissa, Sonja, Kim)

CURRENTLY ON THE BOOKSHELF:




"Thirteen Moons", Charles Frazier; (Dale)
“Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community & War”, Nathaniel Philbrick; (Jay)
“Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", J.K. Rowling; ( Kim)
"A High Wind in Jamaica", Richard Hughes (Sonja)
"Illusions", Richard Bach (Jan)
"The Town & the City", Jack Kerouac (Jay)
"The Last Hurrah", Edwin O'Connor (Sonja)
"What Do You Do All Day?", Amy Scheibe (Kim)
"The Call of the Wild", Jack London (Dale)
"A Long Way Gone", Ishmael Beah (Starbucks)
"The Joy Luck Club", Amy Tan (Cincinnati Public Library's 'on the same page' book selection)
"Postville", Stephen G. Bloom (Melissa)
"The Princess Bride", William Goldman (Paul)
"The Tenth Kingdom", Kathryn Wesley (Melissa)
__________________________(open space - Paul)
"Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", Dee Brown (Jan)

READ SO FAR:

"On the Road" - Jack Kerouac (October 2006) - added by Dale, picked by Sonja
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" - Carson McCullers (November 2006) -added by Sonja, picked by Kim
"To the Lighthouse" - Virginia Woolf (December 2006) - added by Kim, picked by Jan
"The Magnificent Ambersons" - Booth Tarkington (Jan 2007) -added by Jay, picked by Kathleen
"The Red and the Black" - Stendhal (Feb 2007) - added by Kathleen, picked by Dale
"The Innocent Man" - John Grisham (Mar 2007) - added by Jan, picked by Jay
"Love in the Time of Cholera" - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Apr 2007) - added by Jan, picked by Sonja

Details/descriptions of many of these books are found in the comments to or the posts below.

Kurt Vonnegut Suggestion

Indianapolis has chosen Slaughterhouse-Five as the One City One Book choice for this year. Would anyone be game to read it in addition to the regular book club books and maybe attend one of the discussions about it that will be going on around the city?

Quotes from Love in the Time of Cholera

I'm moving slowly on this book, but wanted to add some quotes that I liked for anyone who might be watching the blog. A lot of the passages that I liked, I liked not because of what they said, but how they said it. A big part of that was the descriptiveness of them - they are all long, so I won't put a lot of them (or none of them) here (I think that's why this book is a slower read and why it's better enjoyed with long periods of reading rather than short bursts).:

Speaking of Dr. Juvenal Urbino and Fermina Daza - "...they were not capable of living for even an instant without the other, or without thinking about the other, and that capacity diminished as their age increased."

And - "...if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer to any good."

And later - "...they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths:...and nothing in this world was more difficult than love."

And finally - "In the end they knew each other so well that by the time they had been married for thirty years they were like a single divide dbeing, and they felt uncomfortable at the frequency with which they guessed each other's thoughts without intending to, or the ridiculous accident of one of them anticipating in public what the other was going to say...."