Northridge Book Club

The Northridge book club was formed as a social activity for the Northridge sub division in Erie, Colorado. Our first meeting was held on June 30th, 2009. We meet from 7 - 8:30 on the first Tuesday of every month. A different member hosts the book club.

Jolene is the book club’s secretary. Please contact Jolene directly if you have any questions about the book club.

Planned Reading:

September 7th meeting. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. Meet at Nancy B. home.
October 5th meeting. Nothing to Envy by B. Demick - location TBD
November 2nd meeting. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford- location TBD
December 7th meeting. The Autobiography of Santa Clausby Jeff Guinn. Location TBD.
January meeting cancelled
February 1st meeting. The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wioblewski. Location TBD

Books read and discussed

2009

August 4th meeting: Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
September 1st meeting: Their eyes were watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
October 6th meeting: The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
November 3rd meeting: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
December 1st meeting: The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig

2010

January No meeting
February 2nd meeting: Peter the Great.
March 2nd meeting: To Kill a Mockingbird
April 6th meeting: Beneath the Marble Sky.
May 6th Measure of a Man.
June 1st A tree grows in Brooklyn.
July 6th meeting. People of the book by Geraldine Brooks
August 3rd meeting. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. Meet at Jolene's home.

Books that most members have already read:

Water for Elephantsby Sara Gruen

Books under consideration:

Book bags available at the library:

Watership Down by Richard Adams
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas
Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder
Pocketful of namesby Joe Coomer

Other recommendations - not in Book Bags

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck.
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Don’t Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood by Alexandra Fuller
Same kind of different as me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
The Charm School by Nelson Demille
South of Broad by Pat Conroy
Half The Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Comments ...

Jul 8, 2010 Lisa Meireis

My opinion of Jane Austin is very similar to Ralph Waldo Emerson who said: "I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in their wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. ... All that interests in any character [is this]: has he (or she) the money to marry with? ... Suicide is more respectable."

Thus, I vote for anything but Pride and Prejudice.