SP 2016 10.10 Group Reads

[Kate S]

10.10-Group Reads

Tien: 11/22/63 by Stephen King
Coralie: Paris by Edward Rutherfurd
Ed: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Rebekah: The Funeral Dress by Susan Gregg Gilmore
Heather: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Katy: A Pleasure and a Calling by Phil Hogan
Joanna: Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Kath: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Sam: Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam
Kate: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Elizabeth (Alaska): The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases by Michael Capuzzo

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Angle of Repose is one of my all time favorite books!

[Connie]

I loved 11/22/63, Tien. Although it's written by Stephen King, it's not horror. It's a combination of time travel/fantasy and historical fiction.

[Tien]

I loved it too, Connie! So much!
I want to watch the Hulu adaptation but Hulu is not available in Australia, I'm devastated! The trailer looks really good!

[Connie]

Tien wrote: "I loved it too, Connie! So much!
I want to watch the Hulu adaptation but Hulu is not available in Australia, I'm devastated! The trailer looks really good!"

I didn't know they made it into a movie. I wonder if they included actual footage of the assassination, or had actors portray the Kennedys. That's one day in history that I will never forget.

[Tien]

It's a serial, Connie, 8 parts with James Franco (!)

awesome trailer

[Connie]

Tien wrote: "It's a serial, Connie, 8 parts with James Franco (!)

awesome trailer"

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

[Valerie]

I'm excited that I actually own 3 of the group reads books this session! This has never happened before, and normally I can't complete 10.10 - maybe this is the season!

[Rebekah]

Has anyone noticed that the majority of books are Jumbo reads?

[Coralie]

Yes, I noticed that too.

[Rebekah]

They all look interesting to me. Every challenge I pick at least three I want to read, but end up feeling accomplished if I read two. I try to fit them into other challenges. Don't know if I'll be able to fit all the jumbos in but four of them have been on my wish list for a good while. Two of them , not jumbos though, I've already read and enjoyed. Our members make really good choices and I always look forward to seeing what has been picked more than which poll won. Thanks to the fellow members I've discovered new genres and new favorite authors. Thanks, amigos!

[Rebekah]

Elizabeth (Alaska) wrote: "Angle of Repose is one of my all time favorite books!"

Good book. So too The Heart is a Lonely Hunter