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Category Archives: book list
Book Club List for 2016
Wondering what to give yourself for Christmas? Here is our book club list for next year—January through December. Have you read any of them? Check out reviews on the internet and treat yourself to a couple —or let Santa do … Continue reading
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Summer Reading Plan for 2015
It’s Memorial Day weekend and that puts me in the mind of summer being right around the corner. It’s been a splendid spring of color–great year for the daffodils, azaleas–but the rhododendrons were pretty hard hit by winter this year. … Continue reading
The New Book Club Schedule—-for 2015!
Yea! Who loves a book list? Get out your pencils . . .which books do you plan to read with our book club this year? We voted last week and the final results are in. If you’ve read any of them … Continue reading
Ten Books for a Desert Island
What is the criteria for books for a desert island? I’d say a book that you can read over and over because the book mobile won’t be coming by anytime soon.
Challenge: Ten Great American Novels
This post was spurred into print by the challenge from a blog called Fiction Fan’s Book Reviews—sign in, you’ll enjoy it! http://www.fictionfanblog.wordpress.com. Her latest post is “Great American Novel Quest” and she asks her readers to … Continue reading
Summer Reading List 2013–updated Aug 25th–and going to St. Louis
Hot off the press! Here is this summer’s proposed reading list. I don’t have a real giant this year like Three Musketeers (last year). It’s kind of a mixed list—and looking forward to all of them! The two with stars … Continue reading
A List of Books for your Young Teenager
I was asked recently to suggest some books for summer reading for one of my teen-aged granddaughters. You would think that this might be an easy list to find on the internet. But I didn’t find any I liked. Although … Continue reading