Emily's Musings

Book Group!

Today was the first meeting of our new book group!

I forgot to take the picture until after Marisa already left, but here are Laura, Brenda, Tina, Ellen and I with a pile of books, mugs of tea, and lots of cookies and brownies.

We talked about books, movies, tv shows, history, religion, and a little bit of everything!

Rather than all reading one particular book, we thought we'd all just come prepared to talk about some of the books we've liked and be able to hear about a wide range of different books.

Here are some of the books that I noted that I wanted to look into:

• Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
• Paradise by Toni Morrison
• The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (to re-read)
• Contact by Carl Sagan
• Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub
• Violin by Anne Rice (I recommended her The Witching Hour series.)
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley (which I've been meaning to get to for years!)
• The Harlot by the Side of the Road by Jonathan Kirsch
• Red Azalea, Becoming Madame Mao, and Empress Orchid: A Novel by Anchee Min
• New book by the author of Girl with A Pearl Earring: The Lady and the Uniocorn by Tracy Chevalier
• All the Presidents' Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America's First Families by Doug Wead
• Mysteries by Ruth Rendell and P.D. James
• I Claudius (though I'm not sure what version we were talking about. Tina?)
• Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Thank you all for coming and for the great book suggestions! Feel free to add more by commenting here!

Posted by Emily at February 8, 2004 07:56 PM