More from my Book Club

I belong to a book club started by several ladies I work(ed) with. It is called Discriminating Women. I was a faithful attendee for several years, then I went back to school and couldn't keep up with classwork, social life, and reading a book from outside of my comfort genres. I had a list from one of the founding members, it was on a computer that crashed. Because of that I am posting the list of books that the Discriminating women have read. Now, hopefully that list will be safe from crashing computers, and maybe I'll get some of those missed books read. And I realize now that our next meeting will be our 10th Anniversary.

This post will probably be edited over a period of time as I look up books to add links. As I link them to the find libraries with copy pages in OCLC's Worldcat Beta, I will try to double check and correct typing and spelling and add authors where needed.

1997
September
The Rector's Wife by Joanna Trollop
October
Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
November
Cannery Row

1998
January
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
February
At home in Mitford by Jan Karon
March
The Book Shop by Penelope Fitzgerald
April
A Lantern in her Hand
May
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
June
Deep Water Passage by Ann Linnea
August
The Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas
September
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Circle of Stones by Judith Duerk
October
Zen Zele by J. Nozipo Maraire
November
Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams

1999
January
No Time on her Hands by Grace Snyder Yost
February
The Giant's House by McCracken
March
Possession by A.S. Byatt
April
The Summer of the Great Grandmother by M. L'Engle
May
Pope Joan by Donna W. Cross
June
Birdsong by Faulks
September
The Divine Secrets of the Ya Y Sisterhood by
October
Ill Wind by Nevada Barr
November
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg

2000
January
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
February
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
March
The Mirror by Lynn Freed
April
The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
May
The Glass Lake by Meave Binchy
June
The Killer Angels by Michael Sharra
September
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
October
Watery Grave by Bruce Alexander
November
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thorton

2001
January
The Poisonwood Bible by Barabra Kingsolver
February
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. LeGuin
March
no meeting bad weather
April
The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
May
The Red Tent by Anita Diament
June
Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolf
July
The Archivist by Martha Cooley
October
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis DeBernieres
November
Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis

2002
January
Moo by Jane Smiley
February
Confessions of an Ugly Sept Sister by Gregory Maguire
March
Hawk Flies Above by Lisa Dale Norton
April
My Only Story by Monica Wood
May
Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
June
Roxana Slade by Reynolds Price
July
Meely LaBauve by Ken Wells
September
Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy
October
The Road from Coorain by Jill K. Conway
November
The Fourth Hand by John Irving

2003
January
Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama
February
The Tall Pine Polka by Lorna Landvik
March
Behind the scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
April
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
May
Bell Canto by Ann Patchett
June
Mr. Posterior and the Genius Child by Emily Jenkins
July
Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney
September
The Dive from Clausen's Pier by
October
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
November
???

2004
January
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
February
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
March
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
April
The Elegant Gathering of White Snows by Kris Radish
May
Nine parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks
September
The Lovely Bones by
October
The Day the World came to Town by
November
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

2005
January
Middlemarch by George
February
The Amateur Marriage by Ann Tyler
March
My Antonia by Willa Cather
April
Rose's Garden by Carrie Brown
May
House of Sand & Fog by Andre Dubus III
June
Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
September
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
October
Year of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks
November
The Turk and my Mother by Mary Helen Stefaneak

2006
January
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffennegger
February
Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
March
Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman by Elizabeth Buchan
April
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
May
The Rich Part of Life by Jim Kokoris
June
The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
September
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
October
Oh my Stars by Lorna Landvik
November
The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel

2007
January
Twilight Sleep by Edith Wharton
February
His Oldest Friend by Sonny Klienfield
March
The Handyman by Carolyn See
April
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
May
Pay it Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
June
Last of her Kind by Sigrid Nunez
And the rest of 2007 is listed in a previous post.
I have not yet read entries in blue.

Work temperatures now livable

Okay, to say they were not livable before is an exageration. But almost 90 degrees with little to no air circulation was definately wearing almost all of us down. One day they even allowed us to go home on administrative leave because of the temperatures at 90 + and OSHA rules. All this week the temperature in our office suite has been in the 70s. I think even the individual offices have been dropping into the 70s. It is heaven. The humidity in the office suite is also at a good level. The air quality is better now that they have quit excavating the basement level. So from my point of view, all is well and work is good again.

My Bookclub's Reading List

Below is the list of upcoming books for my book club.


September: Falling in Love with Natassia by Anna Monardo
October: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
November: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
January: Manhunt by James L. Swanson
February: Beneath A Marble Sky by John Shors

I have not yet read entries in blue.