2005 - 2006 Book List

• September F Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
• October NF Smartest Guys in the Room - Bethany McLean
• November F Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
• December NF It Takes a Village - Hillary Rodham Clinton
• January F The Autobiography of Henry VIII - Margaret George
• February NF Among the Bears - Benjamin Kilham
• March F This Body - Laurel Marian Doud
• April NF Pioneer Women - Joanna L. Stratton
• May F Into the Forest - Jean Hegland
• June NF Zippy - Haven Kimmel
• July F Outlander - Diana Gabaldon
• August NF Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment - Thaddeus Golas

2006 - 2007 Book List

• September NF A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel
  October F Into the Forest - Jean Hegland
  November NF Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment - Thaddeus Golas
  December F Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
  January NF Between a Rock and a Hard Place - Aron Ralston
  February F Blessings - Anna Quindlen
  March NF Making Peace with the Things in Your Life - Cindy Glovinsky
  April F The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
  May NF Last Child in the Woods - Richard Louv
  June F Lunch at the Picadilly - Clyde Edgerton
  July NF The Endurance - Caroline Alexander

2007 - 2008 Book List

• September F Leeway Cottage - Beth Gutcheon
  October NF Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
  November NF Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki
  December NF Female Ejaculation and the G-Spot - Deborah Sundahl
  January F Mutant Message - Marlo Morgan
  February NF The Final Frontiersman - James Campbell
  March F Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
  April F Sacajawea - Anna Lee Waldo
  May NF Your Personality Tree - Florence Littauer
  June NF The Eden Express - Mark Vonnegut
  July F The Mists of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley

2008 - 2009 Book List

• September NF Three Cups of Tea - Greg Mortenson
• October F Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen
• November NF In an Instant - Lee and Bob Woodruff
• December F Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See
• January NF Winter World - Bernd Heinrich
• February NF Leap of Faith - Queen Noor
• March NF The Wolves of Isle Royale - Rolf Peterson
• April F The Book of Bright Ideas - Sandra King
• May NF Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
• June F One True Thing - Anna Quindlen
• July F Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien

MTU Student Pick & "Eat, Pray, Love" Movie

Judy just told me the MTU student pick for the fall. It's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. It looks very good -- either Judy or I will bring it to McLain's in August. They usually get the author to speak at Tech. Start gathering some more books for our fabulous Book Extravaganza at McLain's August 14 - 15!

Also coming out this summer is the movie Eat, Pray, Love starrring Julia Roberts. I saw the preview on elizabethgilbert.com. That looks very good also. Please let me know when it comes to town (if I don't catch it), and I'll organize a movie date to see it as a group.

2009 - 2010 Book List

• September NF In Praise of Slowness - Carol Honore
• October F The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• November NF The Gift of Fear - Gavin De Becker
• December F Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
• January NF Child of the Jungle - Sabine Kuegler
• February F The Bishop in the West Wing - Andrew Greeley
• March NF Turtle Feet - Nikloai Grozni
• April F Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
• May F The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
• June F Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien
• July NF My Life in Dog Years - Gary Paulsen

Meeting Night on "Going After Cacciato"

Janeen, Judy and I met tonight at PLDL to discuss the second Tim O'Brien book that we have read as a group. Only Judy read it, so she gave us a very good review. (She also brought some great toffe to share. Yum.)

We discussed how nice it would be to have a place to share good reads and movies -- so here we are!

Here are some excellent family books on tape that I offered:

• Holes - Louis Sacher
• Witches - Roald Dahl - read by Lynn Redgrave (what a talent)
• Hoot - Carl Hiaason
• The Thief Lord - Cornelia Funke
• The Wish List - Eoin Colfer

Janeen really recommended The Help.

You two could repeat what else you said, because I can't remember anything else!

~ Cindy