Is anyone reading Breathing Lessons??? How's it going???
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"There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away." (Emily Dickinson)
Welcome to the Bloggy Book Club, where we shall read to our heart's content.
Another Blog for Readers & Bluestockings
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
For the Bloggy Book Club Reading Selections for 2009, please click HERE. Click on the uppercased red book title to be taken to Amazon.com where you can read more about the book and order a copy.
Please note, Amazon.com usually offers free shipping on all of these titles if your order totals $25 or more. I buy a 2 or 3 books at a time, just enough to get the free shipping, and then go back another day and do it again. Not buying all 12 at a time helps lessen the load on my budget while buying 2 or 3 at a time saves money on shipping.
Most of these titles can also be found the library if you want to borrow the book instead of buy it. (You might want to take notes on a separate sheet of paper though so you can remember things that impacted you---for yourself and to share with the group---and to spare yourself the library fine of marking up a borrowed book!)
Lastly, if you have any questions, please email me HERE.
Happy Reading!
Please note, Amazon.com usually offers free shipping on all of these titles if your order totals $25 or more. I buy a 2 or 3 books at a time, just enough to get the free shipping, and then go back another day and do it again. Not buying all 12 at a time helps lessen the load on my budget while buying 2 or 3 at a time saves money on shipping.
Most of these titles can also be found the library if you want to borrow the book instead of buy it. (You might want to take notes on a separate sheet of paper though so you can remember things that impacted you---for yourself and to share with the group---and to spare yourself the library fine of marking up a borrowed book!)
Lastly, if you have any questions, please email me HERE.
Happy Reading!
Book Club Members
Table of Contents
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2009
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January
(10)
- Revlutionary Road: Part One, Chapters 5-7
- Revolutionary Road: Final Questions
- Helloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo???
- PLEASE NOTE!
- Breathing Lessons Question #1
- Breathing Lessons Question #2
- Breathing Lessons Question #3
- Breathing Lessons Question #4
- Breathing Lessons Question #5
- Breathing Lessons Questions #6
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January
(10)
No one else can speak the words on your lips...
Share your thoughts; any and all are welcome.
Don't know what to say? Here are some ideas:
What made you laugh/cry/think
Lines you loved/hated/didn't understand
Characters or scenes you identified with
Something you disagreed with/embraced
Just one request: When you reference something in the book, please let us know where it is so we can all read along. Include the chapter number, page number, and the paragraph number. Like this: (C3, P245, G3).
Happy Reading!
2009 Book List
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
The Ten Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
6 Robert Frost Poems (3 Group Assigned & You Pick 3)
War as I Knew It by George S. Patton Jr.
Secret Lives of First Ladies by Cormac O'Brian
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
The Ten Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
6 Robert Frost Poems (3 Group Assigned & You Pick 3)
War as I Knew It by George S. Patton Jr.
Secret Lives of First Ladies by Cormac O'Brian
2009 Book List
BREATHING LESSONS by Anne Tyler
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD by Richard Yates
The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
The Ten Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer
Death in the Garden by Elizabeth Ironside
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
Daisy Miller by Henry James
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
6 Robert Frost Poems (3 Group Assigned & You Pick 3)
War as I Knew It by George S. Patton Jr.
Secret Lives of First Ladies by Cormac O'Brian
8 comments:
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS! I am here and I am kinda sorta reading. I have a few other things that have a higher priority than Bloggy Book Club. I know, it is a complete tragedy. But my father reminds me each time I talk with him that I must be 90% packed when he and my mom arrive next Thursday afternoon...which means, I must get busy!
all right, already! i'm reading at last! just getting going, but i am heading in the right direction - started reading today & read to page 47. i realize i am going to have to devote a lot more time to reading - but i am having a hard time fitting in the book between sleeping late in the am, cleaning house, washing & folding & putting away laundry, paying bills, cooking dinner & eating late & cleaning up the kitchen. and of course, American Idol started this week!!! i'm finding that the time to read is a luxury i have to give myself.
mjm: Your "yes" made me laugh. I realize you have some more "pressing" things to do...your dad is hysterical. How will he measure your progress? Um, sorry, Jane, that's only 87.5%. We're going back to Texas until you're ready for us here. :o)
Gigi: YAY YOU!!!! I don't think I would have read anything at all if my day sounded like yours! Lawzy. I'm tired just reading about it. Hubby asked me last night if I'd been watching American Idol. I said, "No, when was it on?" He said, "The last two nights." I had no idea. I had never even turned the tv on and instead read all night until sleep. I guess that's how I sped through. I got the idea from Little Ensor, when she said that she realized one day that if she turned the TV off, she would get more reading done. But don't get me wrong, I still have "my shows" I gotta watch!!! They're just not on right now. :o)
and of course, i left out the major time consumer of my day - reading blogs & leaving comments!!!!
Rissa- Thanks for being understanding. I am hoping I will catch up once I get moved. I will have several days in between my parents leaving and beginning work. Hopefully I'll finish then!
I have no idea how he will judge my percentage of packing...I do know that if he were to walk in my aparment right now, he would not be happy. :)
I think DVR has helped save my "tv time!" Now I am no longer obligated to sit in front of the TV at 7 on Thursday,etc. I can watch my shows whenever I want... which I find has helped me cut back on my TV time because I only watch what I record... less "veg" and "channel surfing" that way... And if I need to read, I know I will still be able to watch the show-- just later (with skipped commercials! yah!)
I've started finally... last night. I'm planning to read some more tonight... hopefully I'll get more than 2 pages in before I fall asleep.
Love the book by the way. It's just my kind of dry every day humorous living.
yay meems!!! can't wait to read your comments!
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