Whitney's comments (member since Jul 13, 2009)

Whitney's comments from the Santa Barbara Book Club group.

Should we say Sunday, Oct. 25 at 4pm? I think Borders or Starbucks would work well again.

Anyone want to set a date/time for our next meeting? The only weekend day I have free coming up is Sunday the 25th. Otherwise I can meet any weekday evening except Mondays.

Lavinia sounds good to me for this month, though maybe early next month would be better because my hold won't be coming in to the library until later this week.

I'd prefer to read The Road or Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. I've already read Curious Incident, but if everyone else wants to read it, I would read it again.

And the movies for both The Road and Lovely Bones got moved back about a month, to November and early January respectively.

I also came across the Santa Barbara Public Library book club in a bag program: http://www.sbplibrary.org/readers/book-c...

They have 10 copies of each book that you can check out for 6 weeks. Looks like a lot of good titles, and they even have The Road if we want to get that for October.

Fiction

Stoner, by John Williams
Birth of Venus, by Sarah Dunant
Bel Canto, by Ann Patchett
Housekeeping, by Marilynne Robinson
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
The Memory Keeper's Daughter, by Kim Edwards
Out Stealing Horses, by Per Petterson
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
Away, by Amy Bloom
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, by Lisa See
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Water For Elephants, by Sara Gruen
Divisadero, by Michael Ondaatje
Suite Française, by Irene Nemirovsky
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon
Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai

Non-fiction

Ethics for the New Millennium, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson
River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey, by Candice Millard
The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls
Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert,
True Notebooks, by Mark Salzman
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, by Bill Bryson
The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan
Mountains Beyond Mountains, by Tracy Kidder

I'd be up for reading any of those, but Pretty Monsters is a short story collection, so probably not the best for discussion. Lavinia looks interesting, so we could go with that.

Hi everyone! I'm Whitney and recently moved to Goleta.

I read a lot of realistic contemporary fiction, especially books written for the young adult market (like The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks and Wintergirls). I also like literary graphic novels like Blankets.

Two books I've liked recently have been The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and The Graveyard Book.

As for books turned into movies, there's Time Traveler's Wife (Aug.), The Road (Oct), and Lovely Bones (Dec). I'd be up for a discussion of any of those.