Bookshelf

[Lilith]

Hi everyone!
I was wondering what everyone would think about adding the following books after "Girl On a Train." "Inside The O'Briens," "Hello, Goodbye and Everything In Between," and "The Corrections." (In that order.) I think about 10 days for each book seems reasonable. Unless anyone else would like to add any other books in between these, or before?

[Deborah]

Yes!! Those sound good.

[Deborah]

Lilith wrote: "Hi everyone!
I was wondering what everyone would think about adding the following books after "Girl On a Train." "Inside The O'Briens," "Hello, Goodbye and Everything In Between," and "The Correcti..."

oh one more thing. I think we should read Me Before You after those books. We should be able to finish prior to the moving coming out.

[Deborah]

I just can't shut up today. For all of us in the states I did see Inside The O'Briens at Target. I live in downtown and my City Target had it so I am guessing most of the Targets should have it and it is on sale.

[Deborah]

Okay, the book schedule has been updated through the end of May. If anybody has any further suggestions please let me know. Oh, our mid-May book will be Me Before You by JoJo Moyes. The movie version comes out this summer so we wanted to get that in before the movie comes out. Also, these books offer a wide variety of genres: everything from YA, fiction and to authors like Jonathan Franzen.

Lisa Genova, Inside the O'Briens 03/30/2016 to 04/09/2016

Jennifer E Smith, Hello, Goodbye and Everything In Between 04/10/2016 to 04/19/2016

Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections 04/20/2016 to 05/04/2016

Break 05/05 to 05/19

JoJo Moyes, Me Before You 05/15/2016 to 05/30/2016

[Lilith]

Can't wait to read these books! I get the impression Inside The O'Briens was quite popular. If I'm not mistaken, it was best seller on amazon for a while.

[Deborah]

Lilith wrote: "Can't wait to read these books! I get the impression Inside The O'Briens was quite popular. If I'm not mistaken, it was best seller on amazon for a while."

I think it was a bestseller. It does seem pretty popular and is getting good reviews.

[Lilith]

Hello???!?! Anyone else here besides Deb and I?!? It would be nice to hear input from you guys too!!! Speak up!!

[Lilith]

Hey guys! Would anyone mind if we added Me After You (right after Me Before you)? Haha! That looks funny! I know the movie is probably based only on the first book, but I figured if we read the second one right after, it would be a good flow. And I have a good feeling about these books!

[Deborah]

You know I actually have that book.

[Deborah]

Lilith wrote: "Hey guys! Would anyone mind if we added Me After You (right after Me Before you)? Haha! That looks funny! I know the movie is probably based only on the first book, but I figured if we read the sec..."


I was thinking we could move The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen to the Fall. It seems more like a book to read in the Fall, but I am open to suggestions.

[Lilith]

Hey guys! I checked out our bookshelf to see what is still pending to read. I was wondering if everyone would want to squeeze this book in right after "Me after You."

The Day I ate Whatever I wanted: and Other Small Acts of Liberation, by Elizabeth Berg. I think it could be read in 7-10 days. No rush to add it, just throwing the idea out there.

[Deborah]

That sounds good. Maybe we could also squeeze in All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven after that.

[Lilith]

YES!!!

[Deborah]

Lilith wrote: "YES!!!"

Lilith wrote: "YES!!!"

Schedule has been updated!!

[Lilith]

Hi everyone! Just to let you know, I added "The Evil Beneath" by A.J. Waines to the bookshelf. (It's the sequel to "Girl on a Train.") I wasn't going to touch the bookshelf for a while, as we have so many we still haven't read yet, but I just wanted to squeeze this last one in!

[Deborah]

A sequel!!!!

[Lilith]

oh no!!! OOPS!!! hahaha! It's not a sequel actually! I got mixed up. Just another book by A.J. Waines that looks really good!

[Lilith]

I know we were going to keep the schedule as is...but I was wondering if you guys wouldn't mind making ONE small adjustment?? Just switching "The Starch Solution" with "The Day We Ate Whatever We Wanted" by Elizabeth Berg. The reason being is because I just picked up the Elizabeth Berg book at the library today...and seem to often not have it...I can renew it a couple of times, until we would read it (on May 8) if we did the switch. And I figure May 8 is a month from now, if anyone needs to borrow it or buy it by then. If this is an inconvenience, that's okay and I'll just return the book and try to take it out again later.

[Deborah]

I am fine with that.

[Lilith]

You'll have no problem getting it from the library for that date?

[Deborah]

I ended up buying Elizabeth Berg's book and just returned the library copy.

[Lilith]

oh! ok :)

[Lilith]

Hey guys! Just to let you know I added "Always Too Much and Never Enough" by Jasmin Singer to the bookshelf. Hopefully everyone wants to read it! I figure we can add it much later, but I put it up there just in case SOMEONE reads it without me!

[Deborah]

Thank you!!!!

[Deborah]

If everybody is okay with this I thought we could add Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell as our first book in August.

[Lilith]

I'm okay with that. I already have it, so as far as I'm concerned, we can read it any time!

[Deborah]

Lilith wrote: "I'm okay with that. I already have it, so as far as I'm concerned, we can read it any time!"

I was also thinking we could read it after Me Before You and After You. We will figure it out.

[Lilith]

I just received Pretend This Never happened...if you want to squish that in somewhere....:)

[Deborah]

Lilith wrote: "I just received Pretend This Never happened...if you want to squish that in somewhere....:)"

Well we need to work that book in. I can't wait to read it.

[Deborah]

Okay I added I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson. It is supposed to be really good and was recommended by this girl at my used bookstore.

[Mari]

I LOVED I'll Give You the Sun!!! A beautifully written book :) Would love to re-read that!

[Lilith]

By the way, I forgot to mention that the library has it.

[Deborah]

Mari wrote: "I LOVED I'll Give You the Sun!!! A beautifully written book :) Would love to re-read that!"

Have you read All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven? We just finished that book and it was so amazing and beautiful. If you haven't I would read it when you get a chance to you read it. It is a tear jerker though.

[Lilith]

I will say this about "All The Bright Places." Best young adult book I have ever read, hands down!

[Mari]

I have not read that but I added it to my "want to read" list!

[Lilith]

HI everyone! I was thinking we could add "Modern Romance" by Aziz Ansari right after "You are a Badass" by Jen Cinecero. What does everyone think about that? I think it's supposed to be quite good!

[Deborah]

Yes!!!

[Deborah]

Maybe after that we can read I'll Give You The Sun? I've heard great reviews. Then read the Katie Nash books around the holidays?

[Deborah]

Too many books!!!!

[Lilith]

oh yes! excellent idea!

[Deborah]

I will work on that tonight!

[Deborah]

What about Wuthering Heights? Maybe around the Fall?

[Lilith]

I wouldn't mind reading Wuthering Heights. But I would prefer if we added the books we already added to the bookshelf....get rid of them first.

[Deborah]

Good call.

[Deborah]

I have updated the book schedule to include Modern Romance and I'll Give You The Sun. I have also shelved After You as read since a lot of us have read it before or after Me Before You. If anybody has any book suggestions please let us know.

[Deborah]

I have a few books I want to see if anybody else is interested in reading.

The Girls, by Emma Cline
Girlfriend In A Coma, Douglas Coupland
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
Always Too Much And Never Enough, Jasmin Singer
Attachments, Rainbow Rowell

I am a bit behind and need to start The Day I Killed James and wrap up The Starch Solution, but these might be good Fall selections.

[Lilith]

I think all of those suggestions are excellent! Although, I was thinking about reading the books that were added to the shelf earlier....Or maybe a few older books and a few newer books. I was thinking Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon and Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff...We added them so long ago and haven't gotten around to reading them

[Deborah]

I have those two and haven't started them yet. Good call.

[Deborah]

Maybe we could squeeze in This Is Where It Ends by the end of the year.