I have made passing references to our bookclub, but last Tuesday was our once a year day when we choose the nine books for the next twelve months (we take July, August & December off). We try to have a mix of fiction & non-fiction, contemporary & classic (& I confess I like to see one low brow choice à la Nancy Drew). & of course one wild card like a play or an epic poem or someday maybe a graphic novel. But that is just the ideal; what we read is what gets bought to the table & voted on.
As a result of this mi, it is rare for any given book not to be modified by a previous book. For example, earlier this year we read Mark Kurlansky's Salt, which made for an unusual & unexpected tie in to A Tale of Two Cities.
Without further ado, here are the 2013-2014 books:
June 2013: End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
September: New Ways to Kill Your Mother by Colm
Toibin
October: The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer
November: Olive
Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
January 2014:
The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
February: Traveling with
Pomegranates by Sue Monk Kidd & Ann Kidd Taylor
March: Behind the
Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
April: Beautiful Ruins by Jess
Walter
May: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Alison Hoover Bartlett
Most of the books, so far can be seen here:
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