And with the arrival of May...it's time for Meg Wolitzer's book THE TEN YEAR NAP. If you're still reading Pettigrew, or watching the movie (ahem!), please continue to leave your thoughts and post comments in the April/Pettigrew section. In fact, discussions are still ongoing for FEB & MARCH too, so it's never too late to read the book and chat.
For those of you who've had enough of April showers and are ready for May flowers...THE TEN YEAR NAP it is. Do you have the book? Have you started it yet? (I have the book but am in the middle of another at the moment, so will wait to start reading.)
I'll have a post up for NAP comments soon. Until then, Happy Reading!!!
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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
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
3 comments:
I might have to opt out of this month's read... I'm in-between 3 books for May: Bless Me, Ultima (for my English Dept. teacher's book club); Mansfield Park (with 2 of my students); and Extras (part of the Uglies series for my English Club at the HS). Plus, graduation and Japan are coming up... I might just need a ten year nap! ;) So enjoy! I will read your comments on it and keep it on my "to-read" list (which is ALWAYS growing. ha!).
Since I tend to stay about a month behind, I guess that means I'll comment on the May book towards the end of June!!! ;)
FTH: Good grief, woman! You are quite a busy bee - which is appropriate given the month of May. haha. I've only just started NAP but I think you'd find it thoughtful - it's already more realistic in the first 10 pages than perhaps Pettigrew in 100. :o)
mjm: You crack me up. Does this mean we can look forward to your Pettigrew comments forthwith? (Hmm, am I beginning to speak like Pettigrew now??! :o) Not sure that's even a word but there you have it!) And you can take as long as you want/need - just glad to have you in the bloggy book club!
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