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2nd Annual
Gathering of the Book Clubs
September 18, 2007
Local book clubs members gathered at the Bella
Vista Library to share their reactions to books
they've read over the past year.
Following, in no particular order, are the books discussed:
Books We Would Recommend:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Mockingbird by Charles J. Shields
Turn Away Thy Son by Elizabeth Jacoway
March to a Promised Land by Al Kuettner
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
This House of Sky by Ivan Doig
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig
The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig
I Was Vermeer by Frank Wynne
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (dystopian novel)
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (extremely violent)
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
(If All Arkansas Reads book)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
The Franklin Affair by Jim Lehrer
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron
Life, Death & Bialys by Dylan Shaffer
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens
(may not be good for discussion)
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
(may not be good for discussion)
Giants in the Earth by Ole Rolvaag
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Flanders Panel by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley
White Ghost Girls by Alice Greenway
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile
Snow in August by Pete Hamill
Leap of Faith by Queen Noor
The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk by Susan McDougal
Gonzalez and Daughter Trucking Co.
by Maria Amparo Escandon
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Miss Morissa by Mari Sandoz
God Loves an Unmade Bed by Tom Allender
Abundance by Sena Jeter Naslund
Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund
Oh My Stars by Lorna Landvik
Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons by Lorna Landvik
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Books We Would Not Recommend:
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Books We Are Looking Forward to Reading Soon:
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Will Rogers by Ben Yagoda
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Mexico by James Michener
These are thoughts we shared about what makes
for a good book discussion:
- a willingness to discuss the book
- a book that makes you grow as a person
- a book that is well constructed, has some tension or stress,
has good character development
- a book with characters you can relate to
- people in the discussion group who can bring their personal
experience relating to the book to the group
All area book clubs are invited to next year's gathering:
same time (third Tuesday in September, 12:30 p.m.),
same place (Bella Vista Library).
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