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Congratulations to Nancy and The Book Club from Prosser Washington and Lucy and the RA Team in Saint Peters, Missouri, for winning the random drawing of the Discussible Book Choices Contest! Six of the titles that The Book Club chose this year were Reading Group Choices selections. The first book they picked was Gilead, the 2005 Pulitzer Prize winner, by Marilynne Robinson. Lucy and the RA Team chose Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark. Lucy tells us the interesting concept in which the RA Team selects their books. See Nancy and Lucy’s notes plus other Discussible Choices below. We enjoy getting emails from book club members and sharing their choices with everyone. Please email us with your group's discussible choices, and you may win a book-related prize for every member of your reading group. Please remember to include your group name, number of people in your group, and a mailing address to send the prizes. “Our group has never chosen a name; we simply call it The Book Club. I’d like to mention that we are quite an international group with seven of us coming from countries other than the U.S. All the ladies are professionals involved in education, social issues, and the wine industry. At our meetings we mix wine and books very nicely. We are 20 members strong and although it seems too large a group, with all their commitments, we end up having ten to twelve at a time. The few times they all show up, we have a blast. Your publication is one of the sources we use in making our selections every year — it is very helpful. In December our book club doesn’t discuss a book but we get together to choose next year’s choices. These are our choices for 2007. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Nancy, The Book Club, Prosser, WA
We have 9 members (various staff in our library district) in our group, The RA Team. The RA Team is doing multi-genre book discussions. We read a benchmark title in a different genre every other month. In 2006, we covered (or began) five genres: Romance, Mystery, Suspense/Thriller, Horror, and currently we have just started on Fantasy. For the Fantasy genre, we are reading Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clark. Lucy, The RA Team, Saint Peters, MO
More Discussible Book Choices Our book discussion group, the CCs (Cultural Creatives) will celebrate its sixth anniversary in February. We meet every month, with the exception of August, in members' homes. We discuss the month's book, drink wine or a drink somehow inspired by the book, and share a meal. We have 10 members, all female. In January, we will discuss The Thirteenth Tale. We read mostly fiction, although one of our members, in an effort to better us all, almost always chooses nonfiction when it is her turn to choose the books we vote on. Some of our favorite books have been Pete Hamill's Forever, The Devil in the White City and The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. The one book that was almost unanimously disliked was Simon Winchester's Krakatoa. Kat, The Cultural Creatives, Kearny, NJ
For our January discussion we are reading Into the Forest by Jean Hegland. Noreen, Hinckley Library Reading Group, Hinckley, OH
Thank you so much for the free copy of Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West. This is the book our Jayhawk Reading Group is going to read in the month of January. We meet once a week, and discuss our current book and many others. It is a small group of us — only five. But we are growing. We have been meeting regularly for over a year now, and show no signs of stopping. Thanks you also for this opportunity to possibly win some books for our little group here in Lawrence, Kansas. Thank you So much! Susan, The Jayhawkers Reading Group, Lawrence, KS
The McGuire Book Club is reading Running With Scissors for our January discussion and The Pursuit of Happyness for February. Jodiann, The McGuire Book Club, McGuire AFB, NJ
We had a wonderful discussion about When Nietzsche Wept in December. We're taking a different tack for January and will be discussing The Art of Mending by Elizabeth Berg, on the second Tuesday of the month. Betrice, North Shore Towers Reading Group, Floral Park, NY
The AAUW Booklovers is reading The Spiral Staircase, The GlassCastle, Artifacts, The Devil in the WhiteCity, Duveen, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Daisy Miller, Dust Tracks on a Road, A Room with a View, Snow Flower & the Secret Fan, Hiroshima Diary, The World is Flat. Martha, AAUW Booklovers, Winter Park, FL
The Lake Lily Literary Society is reading The Places in Between by Rorey Steward, Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller, The Complete Stories of Truman Capote, Running in the Family by Michael Ontdajje, The Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich, Lipstick Jihad by Azadeh, Moaveni, Tender is the Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald, You're Wearing That? by Deborah Tannen, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Digging to America by Anne Tyler Martha, Lake Lily Literary Society, Winter Park, FL
This month we are reading Peace Like a River by Leif Enger. Last month we read The Girls by Lori Lansens. Christine, The Book Club, Grasonville, MD
Our Group is Reading Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight. Maria, Blauvelt Library Reading Group, Blauvelt, NY
The Mountain Laurel Book Club of Blountville,TN is reading A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler for the month of January. Frankie, The Mountain Laurel Book Club, Blountville, TN
Our January book is The White by Deborah Larsen. Vicki, Seneca East Public Library Book Discussion Group, Attica, OH
The Bad Girls Book Club of Los Alamos, New Mexico report on our reading club choices: December — In Memory of the Forest by Charles T. Powers; January — Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller. Ann, The Bad Girls Book Club of Los Alamos, NM
Upcoming List: The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Persepolis(both volumes), The Girl's Who Went Away, March, The Prestige, The History of Love. Kristi, Between the Covers, Abingdon, VA
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