We will meet at 7pm at Michelle's home for our Kid's Book Discussion. Be sure to bring your favorite Children's Book to share with the group.
See me email for location specifics.
Monday, January 24, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Kid's Book Night! Please respond to the poll on the right!
We are all busy people with difficult schedules that too often rely on on the availability of other people. It is difficult to get everyone together on the same evening. I have created a poll that should help determine which night would accommodate the most people for a Kid's Book Night Discussion. If you can not make it do not worry, our regular book club selection will be coming up shortly!
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Kid's Book Meeting-Jan 19th or the 25th
Hi Everyone
I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday season. We had a great holiday and now I am ready to get started on a great new year!
We will be setting up a date for our official book club meeting on our book "Family Matters' . Until then, I would like to invite everyone to my home to reschedule the meeting on kid's books that we were going to have right before Christmas.
Thursday nights are out for me for the next six weeks. We are taking Matilda to doggie training those evenings! I would like to suggest either this Wednesday, January 19th or the following Tuesday, January 25th.
Bring your favorite (or favorites) Children's Book(s) and we can discuss them all. Perhaps Annette will bring some of the Usborne books to show us since they have so many fantastic selections.
So let me know who is into it and what day works best for everyone. I am looking forward to seeing everyone and since our lower level (I no longer call it a basement) is finished, we will have plenty of buffer between us and my kids!
I will post this to the blog as well.
Readers and Breeder Michelle
I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday season. We had a great holiday and now I am ready to get started on a great new year!
We will be setting up a date for our official book club meeting on our book "Family Matters' . Until then, I would like to invite everyone to my home to reschedule the meeting on kid's books that we were going to have right before Christmas.
Thursday nights are out for me for the next six weeks. We are taking Matilda to doggie training those evenings! I would like to suggest either this Wednesday, January 19th or the following Tuesday, January 25th.
Bring your favorite (or favorites) Children's Book(s) and we can discuss them all. Perhaps Annette will bring some of the Usborne books to show us since they have so many fantastic selections.
So let me know who is into it and what day works best for everyone. I am looking forward to seeing everyone and since our lower level (I no longer call it a basement) is finished, we will have plenty of buffer between us and my kids!
I will post this to the blog as well.
Readers and Breeder Michelle
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Banned and Challenged Classics
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics/index.cfm
1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell
11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son, by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
55. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
64. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
97. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell
11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son, by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
55. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
64. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
97. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
Monday, January 3, 2011
'Tis January!
Welcome to 2011
To those of you who are like me and have not started or finished the book, "Family Matters", get busy because we will be meeting this month to discuss the book!
Look over the list of book ideas that we have or bring some new suggestions to our group.
"The worst thing about reading new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
— Joseph Joubert
To those of you who are like me and have not started or finished the book, "Family Matters", get busy because we will be meeting this month to discuss the book!
Look over the list of book ideas that we have or bring some new suggestions to our group.
"The worst thing about reading new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
— Joseph Joubert
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