SJR, thanks for the recommendation!
I am enjoying this tremendously! Should be required reading for anyone on CC. I keep trying to link CC usernames with the multitude of stereotypes the author nails. I hesitate to share this book with my wife because she has a habit of laughing out loud when she reads something funny which I find terribly distracting.
Psychmom, I havenât read âThe Silence of Trees,â but any book about WWII in the Ukraine is going to have to have some pretty horrific content.
You might want to check out the three-star reader reviews of the book on Amazon.
Just finished Anne Tylerâs The Amateur Marriage. Interesting look into peopleâs hearts.
True!
The very next chapter (after I had written that post) had fast-forwarded 50 years, giving a nice break to the horror and setting up a flashback type of novel. In any case, it has intrigued me, so I am continuing on.
âOne Thousand White Womenâ by Jim Fergus
Not that I liked all these books, but this was what my okclub read last year. Iâll add on yhis years list when i have a chance
Book Club Title Archive 2010
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
HouseRules by Jodi Picoult
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Sk loot
Indignation by Philip Roth
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
New York: The Novel by Edward Rutherfurd
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Rabbit in the Moon by Deborah and Joel Shlian
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
The Space Between Us by Thrity Umrigar
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
The help- Katherine Stokett
The Best of me- Nicholas Sparks
11/22/63 ( i forget the author)
psychmom â I read and enjoyed âThe Silence of Trees.â (I got it as a 99 cent Kindle Daily Deal.)
CBB, Same here (99 cents on Kindle). I am enjoying it, too.
11/22/63 ( i forget the author)
Stephen King
Just finished Miracle Beach by Erin Celello. It was good, surprising and not a âtypicalâ story. Not a literature, serious reader book but a lot more then fluff.
A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay, author of Sarahâs Key. Very interesting story
I am enjoying âThe Memoirs of Little Kâ. Itâs historical fiction about a mistress of the last czar and her life as a ballerina in the years before and after the Russian revolution. Itâs well written and very informative.
loved skeletons at the feast by bohjalian. was not a big fan of his latestânight strangers.
anyone have any comments about the art of fielding?
Just finished âIn the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essexâ by Nathaniel Philbrick. This is the true account of a whaleship that left Nantucket in 1819 and was rammed by a whale, setting the crew adrift in lifeboats thousands of miles from shore. This story is supposed to be the inspiration for Moby Dick. It is a great read for anyone who likes a good non-fiction adventure/exploration/survival type story.
Finally finished Nicholas Nickelby! Longest book Iâve read in a while.
OK, itâs a melodrama full of improbably coincidences, but itâs Dickens. Iâd forgotten how snarky he can be. 
And I thought I was going to read a Stone Barrington detective novel, but one character, his ex girlfriend, was named Arrington. What was the author thinking? If they got married she would be Arrington Barrington? Too silly for words. 
Edit. Now I have to see the movie Nicholas Nickelby.
^^^ Philbrick also wrote âMayflower,â which is excellent. All about the Pilgrims and King Philipâs War. Iâm not always a fan of non-fiction, but he writes in a very engaging style. It was a selection for my Book Club, and was all the more interesting since the events happened âclose to home.â
I really liked âMayflowerâ. Iâm going to order âIn the Heart of the Seaâ for my husband as I enjoyed Philbricks writing style also. Thanks for the tip.
wbow- I felt the same way about Night Strangers, and I have love everything else I have read of his. I actually that it was awful. Bizarre, preposterous, and just plain ridiculous.
Worse yet, I was reading it on a flight to Italy. Not good flying material, as I am sure you will agree. I had downloaded it onto my Kindle just before we got on board. It was my first time flying with the kindle and silly me didnât realize that I wouldnât be able to download once we were off the ground, so I had nothing else to read on the eight hour flight. If I had something else, I probably wouldnât even have finished the novel, I thought it was that bad.
Funny story about âin the Heart of the Sea.â Not long after that book came out, I had one of those days where everything went wrong. (Lost a cell phone, backed into a pick-up truck, needed to drive two kids in opposite directions at the same timeâand husband was away on travel.) At the end of the day, I thought I would take my book and read in the tub. Set the book on the ledge next to the tub. (A big, wide ledge.) That book managed to jump right into the tub! Just like a whale!