Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Our July/August book choices


Thanks to all who came last Tuesday to our book club meeting. We had a great discussion, great dessert, a lot of great people there--the usual. :) Thanks so much to Charis for having us to her lovely house and providing such a delicious treat. Thanks to Karen for digging up the info on Afghanistan and helping us understand better the background for the story.

We're continuing one more month on our Afghanistan/Taliban/Pakistan theme by reading, by popular demand...(drumroll)..."Three Cups of Tea" by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin.
Many of you have recently read this and loved it. Several more of us already had wanted to read it. I'm 1/3 of the way through it and love it and am trying to convince James to read it. It's an amazing story, made so much better by the fact that it's true!

That being said, we again neglected to figure out a discussant and a meeting location. If you would be interested in either, please shoot me an email.

Also, for the following month, in case you've already read "Three Cups of Tea," we're reading "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi (Jody?) Piccoult. It's been made into a movie that's recently come out and raises a lot of good topics for discussion.

Happy reading!