K-W Book Club

2007-01-18T10:30:00.000-08:00

(1) Our Upcoming Schedule

Next meeting:

House of all sorts, Emily Carr

Kate's place
Wednesday, Oct 26 at 7 PM

Order: Carol, Kate, Laurie, Ruth

2006-12-29T08:13:00.000-08:00

(2) Book Ideas from K-W Book Club Members

With links to their online location, if available for free online.

* Maps of Meaning, Jordan B. Peterson
* Golden Days, Carolyn See
* Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, by Mark Kurlansky.
* The Fearsome Particles, Trevor Cole
* The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers (Coleridge and cohorts in time-travel adventure)
* To Reign in Hell, Steven Brust (about the fall of Lucifer)
* The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
* The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper (link)
* Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (link)
* Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope (link)
* Castle Rackrent, Maria Edgeworth (link)
* Private Memoirs of a Justified Sinner, James Hogg (link)
* John Steinbeck
* the sequel to Too Close to the Falls , Catherine Gildiner
* a beat book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, or something like that

2006-12-18T21:14:00.000-08:00

(3) What we have read

The Alchemist, Paolo Coello
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, Michael Chabon
The Artist's Way, Julia Cameron
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Atwood (anything by Margaret Atwood)
Autobiography of a Face, Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy
Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
Bellweather, Connie Willis
The Birth House, Ami McKay
Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
Book of Negroes, Laurence Hill
The Bookseller Of Kabul, Asne Seierstad
A Child's Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon
Dona Flora and Her Two Husbands, Jorge Amado
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine
The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and a Son, David Gilmour
The Flying Troutmans, Miriam Toews
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Gargoyle, Andrew Davidson
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Happiness, Will Ferguson
History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
The House of All Sorts, Emily Carr
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
The In-between World of Vikram Lall, MG Vissanji
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
Late Nights On Air, Elizabeth Hay
Longitude, Dava Sobel
Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Lullabies for Little Criminals, Heather O'Neill
A Map of Glass, Jane Urquhart
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso
The Memory-Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edwards
Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
Never Cry Wolf, Farley Mowat
Nightwing, Martin Cruz Smith
Nobody Nowhere, Donna Williams
Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life, Trevor Cole
The Pursuit of Love, Nancy Mitford
Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
Remembering Babylon by David Malouf
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
Runaway, Alice Munro
The Sentimentalists, Johanna Skibsrud
The Telling of Lies, Timothy Findley
Three Men in a Boat, Jerome K. Jerome (print, audio)
Too Close to the Falls, Catherine Gildener
The Water is Wide, Pat Conroy
The White Hotel, D.M. Thomas
White Noise, Don DeLillo
Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes

2006-11-21T15:11:00.000-08:00

(4) Recommendations and ideas from people outside our book club.

Links to book ideas:
* Hack Writer's reviews
* Amazon - Un-Named Book club List
* Cdn Book Club
* Chapters Paperback bookclub list
* Schmoozer's bookclub list
* Silicon Valley book club list
* Not Your Mother's Book Club
* Adelante!
* Writer's Cafe
* UCI Libraries
* SFU Book Club List
* Bruce's book page
* WPL book club blog
* KPL book club

From Nat
African Genesis, Robert Ardrey
All The Kings' Men, Robert Penn Warren
Of Time and the River, Thomas Wolfe
You Gotta Dance With Them That Brung You, Molly Ivins
Fridays With Red, Bob Edwards
Family of Spies, Pete Earley
First in His Class, David Maraniss 4+
Is Paris Burning?, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
Cat Stories, James Herriot
The Grass Widow's Tale, Ellis Peters
Booknotes Life Stories, Brian Lamb
The Climb, Anatoli Bookreev and Weston DeWalt
Stickin': The Case for Loyalty, James Carville
The Last Hurrah, Edwin O'Connor
Until the Last Trumpet Sounds, Gene Smith
Growing Up, Russell Baker
Spy, David Wise
Born This Day, Ed Morrow
The Love You Make, Peter Brown and Steven Gaines
The Bureau and the Mole, David A. Vise
John Adams, David McCullough
Thieves in High Places, Jim Hightower
Moneyball, Michael Lewis
The Beatles Come to America, Martin Goldsmith
Fanatics and Fools, Arianna Huffington
The Politics of Truth, Joseph C. Wilson, IV
House of Bush, House of Saud, Craig Unger 4+
Little House in the Ozarks, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Ten Big Ones, Janet Evanovich 4+
Farewell to Manzanar, Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck
Collapse, Jared Diamond
If Photos Could Talk, Andy Oliver
Come As You Are, Coates Redmon
One Step Behind, Henning Mankell
Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin
Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter
Tibet, Kazuyoshi Nomachi
The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Frank Rich

More suggestions:
* The Cairo Trilogy (first book is The Palace Walk)
* Sagas of the Icelanders (Penguin edition with 17 sagas)
* Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps, Peter Galison

Sci-fi:
* Frederick Pohl's Gateway books
* Illegal Alien, Robert Sawyer
* Birthright, the book of Man, Mike Resnick
* The Well of Souls series, Jack L Chalker
* Beggars in Spain (trilogy), Nancy Kress
* Xenogenesis trilogy (Lilith's Brood), Octavia Butler.
* Last and First Men, Olaf Stapledon
* Up the Walls of the World, James Tiptree

2006-09-18T20:44:00.000-07:00

(5) Top n Lists

Here are some lists of favorite books.

Ruth's Top Ten Fiction
1. Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
1. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
3. The Last of the Wine, Mary Renault
4. Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
5. The Last Coin, James P. Blaylock
6. Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler
7. Passage, Connie Willis
8. The Solid Mandala, Patrick White
9. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
10. Dust, Yael Dayan

Ruth's Top Ten Non-Fiction
1. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso
2. The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power, Robert Caro
3. Religion and the Decline of Magic, Keith Thomas
4. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, Harriet Jacobs
5. The Inmates are Running the Asylum, Alan Cooper
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
7. Land of Lost Content, Ian Smillie
8. From Beirut to Jerusalem, Thomas Friedman
9. A Theory of Econometrics, Anna Koutsoyiannis
10. The New Joy of Cooking, Ethan Becker

Tom's Top Ten Non-Fiction
1. The Making of the English Working Class, EP Thompson
2. The Extended Phenotype, Richard Dawkins
3. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman
4. Micromotives and Macrobehaviour, Thomas Schelling
5. Consciousness Explained, Daniel Dennett
6. The Electronic Structure and Chemistry of Solids, P. A. Cox
7. Protest and Survive, EP Thompson again
8. Memory of Fire, Eduardo Galeano
9. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
10. Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell

Jim's Top Ten Fiction (20th century)
1. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
3. Johnny Get Your Gun, Dalton Trumbo
4. Either The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner or The Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
5. The Eight by Neville
6. Semi Tough, Dan Jenkins
7. Bernard Cornwell's King Arthur trilogy
8. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
9. Bless the Beasts and the Children, Swarthout
10. The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier

Ruth's Top Sci-fi & Fantasy
(in alphabetical order by author; one book per author)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
The Last Coin, James P. Blaylock
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury
The Sheep Look Up, John Brunner
To Reign in Hell, Steven Brust
War for the Oaks, Emma Bull
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany
Time Out of Joint, Philip K. Dick
Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
Red Shift, Alan Garner
The Rose, Charles Harness
Dune, Frank Herbert
Beggars in Spain, Nancy Kress
Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
Star Fraction, Ken MacLeod
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller
The Condition of Muzak, Michael Moorcock
Ringworld, Larry Niven
The Anubis Gates, Tim Powers
Pavane, Keith Roberts
Singularity Sky, Charles Stross
More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
Where Late the Sweet Bird Sang, Kate Wilhelm
Passages, Connie Willis
The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny