Readers and Breeders: Kid's Book Meeting-Jan 19th or the 25th

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

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Ideas for possible upcoming titles to read! Leave suggestions here please!

Outliers by Gladwell
Life WIthout Limbs by Nick Vujicic
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Any Chua
Little bee by Chris Cleave
Sun Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Jon Krakauer's Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez,
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez,
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegu
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck,
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, by Audrey Niffenegger.

2012 Monthly Book Club Tips to think on!

taken from: http://www.readinggroupguides.com/roundtable/tips.asp

March

As this is Women's History Month, think about reading a biography that celebrates a famous female.

Write a list of books that have meant something to you as a woman and share it with your fellow book club members.

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, think about reading something from an Irish author or something about Irish history.

Take a blank book and fill in the pages with some of your group's favorite recipes from your meetings. It will be another way of charting your group's "history."

February

In honor of Black History Month, share lists of titles from some of your favorite African-American authors.

Since winter can be cold and blustery in so much of the country, think about reading a title set in a warm place or with a summer theme to think about warmer, carefree summer days.

No matter how you feel about it, Valentine's Day invades our world in February. With that in mind we have collected five titles with "Red" in their titles and five titles with "Love" in their titles that you might want to explore.
January

Have each member of the group make a yearlong reading resolution. This can be something like vowing to read new authors or explore a new genre. Write these down and re-visit them in December to see how many have been kept!

Empower yourself for the new year by reading a biography of someone you admire and then share something you never knew about that person with your group.

Share your favorite title about self-improvement with members of your group.

Each month, have each member bring a book that he or she has read beyond the group's book club selection. Tell other club members about it in a couple of lines. Once you go around the room sharing your selections, think how many books you will have learned about.