Last night we had our selection meeting where we nominate and vote on 12 new titles for the upcoming year. It is always such a lively and laughter-filled evening and I come home jazzed--a slew of "extra" titles to add to my personal reading list.
I just love how this group gets me to read things I wouldn't ordinarily pick up, they make me think and evaluate more deeply, and though Christians, we are still quite diverse in our backgrounds and perspectives. And I love that.
I'm listing these by the month in which they will be discussed, along with a brief description.
Let me know if you've read any of these and what you think! (No spoilers though, please.)
MARCH
The Ditch Digger's Daughters by Yvonne S Thorton
(Memoir; the importance of education, hard work and family values)
APRIL
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
(Classic; 1890's, morality, narcissism, the soul)
MAY
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
(Mystery; British, impostor, inheritance)
JUNE
An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski
(Non-fiction; busy sales executive meets 11 yr. old panhandler)
JULY
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
(Young Adult Fiction; German girl and her foster parents, books, hiding Jewish man, surviving WWII)
AUGUST
In The Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner
(Autobiographical Fiction; 7 yr. old girl, coming of age, Cambodian civil war)
SEPTEMBER
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
(Fiction; foster care, San Francisco, the meaning of flowers)
OCTOBER
The Girl With No Name: The Incredible Story of a Child Raised by Monkeys by Lynne Barrett-Lee and Marina Chapman
(Biography; child trafficking, human-animal relationships, Colombia)
NOVEMBER
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
(Fiction; college professor, early onset of Alzheimer's)
DECEMBER
Crazy Busy by Kevin DeYoung
(Christian Living; getting to the root of busyness)
JANUARY
One Light Still Shines: My Life Beyond the Shadow of the Amish Schoolhouse Shooting by Maria Monville
(Memoir; wife of Nickle Mines shooter, God's redemptive love)
FEBRUARY
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
(Nonfiction; society and culture, urban poverty, India)
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And just because we debated long and hard over this one, (but no one had read it), anyone have anything to say about Watership Down by Richard Adams? All we know is that it is 520 pages, and an adventure fantasy about rabbits. :)
Let's just say some of us were seriously intrigued by that description, and others of us were laughing hysterically!
3 comments:
Dorian Gray was chosen for my on-line book club last year. Only GREAT books are good for me on the Kindle...and I just couldn't get into it (bc of that), though others had a lot to say about it.
A Light Still Shines is on my list. :)
Dorian Gray is a great classic. Easy to read I think.
The Book Thief. Tried two times to listen to it on audiobook and couldn't get into it. But so many people RAVED about it! The writing was really good though. Maybe I should try again.
The Language of Flowers is on my list for this year too. Curious to know what you think of Still Alice since I read a different title last year by the same author.
Happy reading!
Watership Down is fantasy, fabulously written, and funny. Easy reading, even though it's long.
- Heather
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