Baltimore Girls book club
The Baltimore Girls book club started about 2003 with about a half-dozen neighbors and friends from Baltimore and Baltimore County. Selections range from the academic to Jodi Picoult, and are accompanied by dinner. For their session on Eat, Pray, Love, they brought in a yoga instructor from Susquehanna Yoga. Other club events include a party in December and a Yankee swap book exchange.
Now reading: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. (... the kind of book that can be life-changing, because without ever denying the essential amorality and randomness of the natural order, [it] offers us a believable hard-won hope. -- New York Times)
Liked a lot: Soul Catcher by Michael C. White (... a sweeping if often predictable saga of Antebellum societal and political tensions ... -- Publishers Weekly)
Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson. (... a comic novel that combines salty blue-collar humor with an engaging first-person voice. -- Bookmarks Magazine)
I am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe (Scathingly clear-eyed, often very funny take on college life. -- Robert Siegel, NPR)
The Dogs of Babel by Carolyn Parkhurst. (... a heartbreaking exploration of memory and language, grief and redemption... -- Esquire)
Not so much: The Faith Club by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, and Priscilla Warner.
Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult
Comments
The Book Thief is one of the best books I've read in the last two years. I teach high school boys (mainly) and the only reason I don't teach it is its length. I've heard that the book is generally listed under Young Adult in the US (because it has a pre-teen to teen narrator) but it's in the adult sections of book stores and libraries in the Britian and Australia.
Hope you enjoy the book.
Posted by: Edward Brown | May 12, 2008 5:20 PM
Our book club truly enjoyed The Book Thief. With a unique narrative style, its point of view on a known historic era makes for good discussion.
Posted by: Melanie | May 13, 2008 8:36 AM
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Bill Hall, local author-Sykesville, MD
Posted by: Bill Hall | May 13, 2008 9:29 AM
Hi There:
I'm also in a girls book club in Federal Hill which began a little over one year ago. We've read many of the same books as yours. I'm hosting the next book club where I have asked everyone to bring a poem, state who and when the poem was written, read the poem then open it up for discussion. Will let you know how it goes. Some members seem to be excited about it, others not, but I think irregardless it will make for an interesting evening with a discussion on a potpourri of topics - current and past.
Regards,
Nancy
Posted by: Nancy | May 13, 2008 9:39 AM