November 2, 2004
The Bitch in the House- October book group book
This is our October bookgroup book. I didn't love the premise- a group of women writers "bitching" about thier lives. That said, the essays were actually interesting and brutally honest (they didn't all use thier real names). Next month we are going to read "The Bastard on the Couch" which are rebuttle essays edited by her husband.
JB pick
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September 23, 2004
Broken as Things Are
Amazon.com: Books: Broken as Things Are
A great first novel. Beautifully written, amazing command of language and uses it to great effect. Like my pet peeve with most first novelists feels like she was too tightly edited and the story within a story wanting to push through was probably held at bay- I am going to meet the author next week- so I'll ask. Otherwise, really beautiful and heartbreaking.
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September 12, 2004
Book group books
Here is my list of book group books we have read
BG V.1.0
Memoirs of a Geisha
Angelas Ashes
Tis
The Hours (Pulitzer Prize winner nobody liked, now a movie)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (my favorite book, everyone hated)
BoBos in Paradise
Barbara Kingslover I forget which one bc I didn’t read- the family in the Amazon
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
The one about the hmoung child with epilepsy- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. This was written by the woman who is married to the author of the Big House- see Book Group V3
Tipping Point
The Wallace Stegner- not Angle of Repose
The Feminist Mystique
Katherine Graham autobiography
Doris Kearns Godwin on the Roosevelt Whitehouse- No Ordinary Time
Girlfriends Guide to Hunting and Fishing
The one from your favorite author
The one where we went to hear the author at Elliot Bay- your friend and Marla’s friend published the book about a girl with AIDS
I feel like we had a Hemmingway or something that nobody read- A Moveable Feast
BG V.2.0
Galileo’s Daughter
Smith President- Road to Corain
Correlli's Mandolin
The one where a woman goes out west, period piece, starts with a guy in a wheelchair at a lighthouse?
The Corrections
The Red Tent
Bel Canto
White Oleander
Good to Great
The Tea Rose
The Little Friend- Donna Tart
My Girlfriend Kristin's book- The Good Patient
Book Group V3
The Big House
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September 10, 2004
The Big House
Amazon.com: Books: The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home
I liked The Big House. My bookgroup didn't. If you have a family vacation house in Cape Cod, this is the book for you. I could relate to the content even if not much happened and what did happen the author was too protective of the family secrets to really make interesting (you either write a true story or not- writing fact cloaked as fiction but still not wanting to step on anybody's toes is obvious).
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