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November 2022: Book Club
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That was my prediction!Someone suggested reading from each other's IRL book club shelf. I think it a cool idea. Here is mine, Feminerdy:
Feminerdy Book Club shelf.
Feminerdy Book Club takes a deep dive into fantasy and scifi from a feminist and gender perspective. Shelf includes books I have read with the group, books read before I joined and I am catching up on, and books I have nominated to the group's want to read shelf as possible future reads.
This one is almost like Favorites, because it just means someone read this in a book club or thought it would fit a book club, or maybe it was in a celebrity book club. There are books of literary fiction that seem to be obvious “book club books “, but there are also clubs that read history, romance or sc-fi/fantasy, like Theresa’s Feminerdy club. I like the broader categories myself and voted for this one. I have read a lot of the books on the first couple pages but there are plenty more.
Someone suggested reading a book set in a book club which is another great idea. A couple suggestions I loved:The Agatha Christie Book Club set in Sidney, Australia - cozy mystery I gave 4 stars.
The Sign of Death - second in mystery series set in Victorian Bath, England. Nominated for an Edgar this year. Cozy and amusing. I gave it 3 stars. I should read first in series for this tag!
Also The Jane Austen Book Club which I read when published in 2004, long before I was writing reviews. I liked it. Did not think movie adaptation all that great.
I too voted for this tag, as I enjoy the broader ones. My favorite month so far has been September. The books that I read were wonderful and I liked reading everyone's reviews of the books they had selected for the "Favorites" tag.
I am planning to read the firekeepers daughter, Which is a book club book, but also fits for November fall flurries. I am also at the beginning of the audio for remarkably bright creatures, which also fits. My third choice involves HayJay and Sally, both which at one point wanted to read together the Book of Lost Names. I think those are going to be my three picks, if anyone wants to join.
I'm just happy it wasn't Arab for next month since it's election month in the States.This was my second choice, but I can probably find ones that also fit under humour/humor.
My number two recommendation from this shelf because I gave them both 5 stars and some hearts are:
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Ordinary Grace
but of course there other 5 star reads of mine on there.
Another option is to read a book read in a well-known virtual book club - Reese Witherspoon has a very mixed genre one, Emily Watson a feminist and women's issues one while working with the UN, the Nancy Pearl one - many have a Nancy Pearl shelf.
I think I'm going to go outside the box a little. I've found a category of books about book clubs. I'm looking at Crimes Against a Book Club
The Paper & Hearts Society
The Whispered Word
The one I'm reading right now, The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, fits, but I'm probably going to finish it before the end of the month because it's just so fun! LOL!
I will probably read The Sentence, among others.Maybe Apples Never Fall or Britt-Marie Was Here. Pretty much everything by Liane Moriarty or Fredrik Backman is tagged Book Club.
I'm not giving recommendations this month because there are so many good ones in the list.As far as Book clubs, I'd remind everyone of the Literait:
https://app.literati.com/discover/books
Going through the first few pages of the Goodreads Book club shelf I found these on my tbr and decided to quit while I was ahead:
Where the Crawdads Sing
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
What Alice Forgot
The Dutch House
Beartown
Ordinary Grace
The Round House
Hamnet
Girl, Woman, Other
This Tender Land
A Woman Is No Man
Amy wrote: "I am planning to read the firekeepers daughter, Which is a book club book, but also fits for November fall flurries. I am also at the beginning of the audio for remarkably bright creatures, which a..."I liked Firekeeper's Daughter a lot. I loved the cultural aspect. I read The Sentence shortly afterwards, as the tribes are related. ( Now I’m working on Tookie’s list of favorite books that was published in The Sentence.)
Remarkably Bright Creatures is on my list too, but I don’t know if I can get it. I considered the Book of … names, but It’s WWII.
My irl bookclubs are reading The Great Believers and One Hundred Years of Solitude for upcoming meetings. They both fit well. I’m also looking for old bookclub lists to see what books I missed over the years, due to work or other conflicts. So far, This includes
Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Round House - which I might read for flurries.
More, going way back… Major Pettigrew.., Middlesex, Alice Network, sense of an ending, I know why the caged bird sings, A little life, Peace like a river, angle of repose, out of my mind
I also want to read:
All My Puny Sorrows
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
Booknblues wrote: "I'm not giving recommendations this month because there are so many good ones in the list.As far as Book clubs, I'd remind everyone of the Literait:
https://app.literati.com/discover/books
Going..."
I loved all but one of those! I might have liked the devil book better if I read it with a book club discussion in mind.
From the literati current books, I’m most interested in the book by Dani Shapiro. Inheritance was very good.
It also occurs to me that the Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is a book club book! Wait, I think he sadly got eliminated from the challenge by Alice Hoffman. Which was a total surprise to me. I think with that, my last of the four nominations was done! Towles was one of my top two, and possibly my final. Anyway, that book has been beloved by many.
I'm very pleased with the results. I've been in a reading slump for a little while now so I'll be reading some books from the list.Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farell
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Hopefully, one or more of these books will get me out of my slump.
Booknblues wrote: "I'm not giving recommendations this month because there are so many good ones in the list.As far as Book clubs, I'd remind everyone of the Literait:
https://app.literati.com/discover/books
Going..."
I've read and liked six of these and have at least two of the others on my tbr/want to read lists/shelf.
Anita wrote: "book club...":-( The only one I will plan to count is the one I'm actually reading for my book club.
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted / Suleika Jaouad
ETA: I do like a couple of people's ideas of reading something "about" a book club. I might see if I have anything like that on my tbr, but otherwise, "Between Two Kingdoms" it is.
Amy wrote: "It also occurs to me that the Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is a book club book! Wait, I think he sadly got eliminated from the challenge by Alice Hoffman. Which was a total surprise to me. I thin..."Lincoln Highway was mentioned by my local book club as a possible read, but it was nixed by two early readers who didn’t think it would generate great discussion topics. I also felt a little let down by the book. It sure did get a lot of the tags though, probably on the power of A Gentleman in Moscow.
Joanne wrote: "I loved These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Kate. Can highly recommend it"I loved it too. I think i read it during poll tag for frontier or pioneer. I might finish reading her follow-up books soon. I have a “western” prompt next year.
Sue, the Secret Stealers is on my list. I will look forward to hearing how you and you all find it. I really loved this author for her other two books. I met her once, at a Boston event with two other writers who were speaking. Jane Healey, right?
Kateloves2read wrote: "With two recommendations, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 just jumped to #2 on my books to read next month. Thank you!"
Hope you enjoy it! Can't wait to hear your thoughts. As with Nancy, I need to read the follow up books too. Perhaps there is a buddy read here in the future!
DianeMP wrote: "I'm very pleased with the results. I've been in a reading slump for a little while now so I'll be reading some books from the list.Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Klara and the Sun by Kaz..."
I've read these 4 and they were all homeruns!
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farell
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
NancyJ wrote: "Amy wrote: "It also occurs to me that the Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles is a book club book! Wait, I think he sadly got eliminated from the challenge by Alice Hoffman. Which was a total surprise t..."I liked A Gentleman in Moscow better than Lincoln Highway, but the latter was still a full 4 stars for me--Gentleman was 4.5 and I rounded it up.
My generous son gave me a Book of the Month gift subscription for Christmas last year. It feels terribly ungrateful to still have unread books in November. I have these hardback editions to choose from:The City We Became - which I notice is also on Teresa's Feminerdy book club list
Firekeeper's Daughter
The Girl with the Louding Voice
And I've owned a signed copy of This Tender Land since it came out and somehow have never gotten past the first 50 pages.
There isn't a chance I'll get to all of them even if I supplement with
audiobooks. The holiday season advances upon us.
Jgrace wrote: "My generous son gave me The City We Becamea Book of the Month gift subscription for Christmas last year. It feels terribly ungrateful to still have unread books in November. I have these hardback editions to choose ..."Yes, we read it at some point in the last year. All enjoyed and liked it, some of us like me loved it. Those that weren't as blown away said it was more a mood thing, that they just needed relief from the particular racial and social justice issues at play in the book (as in all author's work). It is light, often funny and NYC is very present with very real and recognizable locations. We all are ready to sign up for any walking tour the author decides to lead following the book. Jemisen said in an interview that it was written as a light antedote to her Broken Earth Trilogy. It is first of a duology with the sequel about to be published.
I highly recommend and it is a fast read.
I am reading Firekeeper's Daughter. Just started it.
Anna, love the new banner, but could we change the tea pot to a few bottles of wine? 😉😁
Kateloves2read wrote: "With two recommendations, These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 just jumped to #2 on my books to read next month. Thank you!"
New group member here! These Is My Words is an outstanding read.
Amy wrote: "I am reading Firekeeper's Daughter. Just started it."New group member here! I started this a few days ago :) It must be meant to be.
Kelly, so nice to meet you! We will have to chat!!! I am 35% through!
Amy wrote: "Kelly, so nice to meet you! We will have to chat!!! I am 35% through!"It is nice to meet you too. I look forward to talking about this book!
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These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 (other topics)The Girl with the Louding Voice (other topics)
The City We Became (other topics)
Firekeeper’s Daughter (other topics)
The Girl with the Louding Voice (other topics)
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Anthony Doerr (other topics)
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