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Friday, May 13, 2011

He's a natural

Nephew Romey in LA loves his tae kwondo classes!

Posted by Sandy at 7:49 PM

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What a bucket list 50th birthday trip!!!!

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Jim took this after a Storm game - one of my favorite pictures

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Book Club Reading List

Book Club Reading List

1999

Aug – Charter Meeting

Sept – Ordinary People – Judith Guest

Oct – Deep Water Passages – Annie Linnea

Nov – Big Rock
Candy Mountain
– Wallace Stegner

Dec – Stones From Ibarra – Harriet Doerr

2000

Jan – The Snapper – Roddy Doyle

Feb – Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden

March – Winter Dance – Gary
Paulson

April – Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca
Wells

May – The Woman and the Ape – Peter Hoig

June – 84
Charing Cross Road – Helene Hanff

Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

July – Tuesdays With Morrie – Mitch Alborn

Aug – Finbar’s Hotel – Edited by Dermot Bolger

Sept – The Honk and Holler Opening Soon – Billie Letts

Oct – English Creek – Ivan Doig

Holes –
Louis Sachar

Nov – Endurance Themes/Shackleton, selected books

Dec – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever – Barbara Robertson

The Way to
Rainy Mountain – Scott Momaday

Dance Me
Outside – W.P. Kinsella

2001

Jan – Ladies Night at Finbar’s Hotel

Feb – The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

March – Galileo’s Daughter – Dava Sobel

April – The Sparrow – Mary Doria Russel

May – One Flew Over the Cookoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

June – Seabiscuit – Laura Hillenbrand

July – The Wonder Boys – Michael Chabon

Aug – Catcher in the Rye
– J.D. Salinger

Sept – One for the Money or other selected books – Janet
Evanovitch

Oct –

Nov – The Shipping News – Annie Proulx

Dec – A Mother and Two Daughters – Gail Godwin

2002

Jan – repeat A Mother and Two Daughters – Gail Godwin

Feb - A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry

March – A Painted House – John Grisham

April – repeat, A Painted House – John Grisham

May – Absolution for Murder – Peter Tremayne

June – The Professor and the Madman – Simon Winchester

July – Counting Coup – Larry Colton

Aug – Jasmine – Bharati Mukherjee

Sept – What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day – Pearle
Cleage

Oct – The Red Tent – Anith Diamont

Nov – The Bird Artist- Norman Howard

Dec – repeat, The Bird Artist – Norman Howard

2003

Jan – Personal History – Katharine Graham

Feb – The Snow Falcon – Stuart Harrison

March – Back When We Were Grownups – Ann Tyler

Norman
Rockwell’s Greatest Painting – Hollis Hodges

April – Bel Canto – Ann Pratchett

May – Bonesetter’s Daughter – Amy Tan

June – Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie

July – Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

Aug – repeat, Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale
Hurston

Sept – Salt: A World History – Mark Kurlansky

Oct – Into the Green – Charles DeLint

Nov – A Walk in the Woods – Bill Bryson

Dec – Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the
West – Gregory Maguire

2004

Jan – The Wizard of Oz – Frank Baum

Feb – The Bone People – Keri Hulme

March – Deception of the Mind – Elizabeth George

April – Last Orders – Graham Swift

May – The Life of Pi – Yann Martel

June – Emma – Jane Austen

July – My Dream of You – Nuala O’faolain

Aug – The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd

Sept – Blood Music – Greg Bear

Oct – Botany of Desire – Michael Pollan

Nov – Cannery Row – John Steinbeck

Dec – Reading Lolita in Tehran – Azar Nafisi

2005

Jan – River Song – Craig Lesley

Feb – The Last Voyage of the Loch
Ryan – Andrew Struther

March – Jane Austen Book Club – Karen Joy Fowler

April – repeat, Jane Austen Book Club – Karen Joy Fowler

May – The Effect of Gamma Ray’s On Man-in-the-Moon-Marigolds
– Paul Zindel

June – Travels With Charlie – John Steinbeck

July – The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

Aug- The Adventures of Angie March – Saul Bellow

Sept – Power of One – Pat Courtney

Oct – Bold Spirit – Linda Lawrence Hunt

Nov – The Left Hand of Darkness – Ursula K Leguin

Dec – Mother of Pearl
– Melinda Haynes

2006

Jan – Blindness – Jose Saramago

Feb – Everything is Illuminated – Jonathon Safran Froer

March – repeat, Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran
Froer

April – Brokeback
Mountain – Annie Proulx

May – The Pirate Queen – Barbara Sjoholm

June – repeat, The Pirate Queen – Barbara Sjoholm

July – A Year of Magical Living – Joan Didion

Aug – Krakatoa – Simon Winchester

Sept – The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

Oct – The Curve of Time – M. Wylie Blanchet

Nov – Any book about the Dead Sea Scrolls

Dec – Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

2007

Jan – Don Quixote De La Mancha – Miguel De Cervantes

Feb – Atomic Farmgirl – Teri Hein

March – The Places In Between – Rory Stewart

April – Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri

May – Three Cups of Tea – Greg Mortensen

June – Amsterdam
– Ian McEwan

July – Slaughter House Five – Kurt Vonnegut

Aug – All The Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy

Sept – One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia
Marquez

Oct – When I Was Puerto Rican – Esmeralda Santiago

Nov – The Road – Cormac McCarthy

Dec – Eat Pray Love – Elizabeth Gilbert

2008

Jan – The Worst Hard Times – Timothy Egan

Feb – The Lost – David Mendelshon

March – The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan

April – repeat, The Omnivore’s Dilemma – Michael Pollan

May – The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

June – The Secret
Garden – Francis Hod
Burnett

July – Any book especially off the 3^rd place
staff bookmarkers

Aug – The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro

Sept – Years of Rick and Salt – Kim Stanley Robison

Oct – The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears – Dinaw
Mengestu

Nov – To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Dec – The Christmas Shoes – Donna VanLiere

Film:
Stranger Than Fiction

2009

Jan – The Film Club – David Gilmour

Feb – John Adams – David McCullough

March – Reservation Blues – Sherman Alexie

April – The Eight – Katherine Neville

May – Other Voices Other Rooms – Truman Capote

June – Holy Cow – Sarah MacDonald

July – JA Jance, any book

Aug – Elling – Ingvar Ambjornsen

Sept The Cellist of Sarajevo
– Steven Galloway

Oct – The Shack – Willam Young

Nov – Water For Elephants – Sara Gruen

Dec – Expecting Adam – Martha Beck

2010

Jan- World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Wars – Max
Brooks

Feb – Zorro – Isabel Allende

March – Olive Kitteridge – Elizabeth Strout

April – Blood of Flowers – Anita Amirrezvani

May – Herzog – Saul Bellow

June – The Known World – Edward Jones

July – The Grave Yard Book – Neil Gaimen

Aug – War Dance (or any other Alexie book) – Sherman Alexie

Sept – Angle of Repose – Wallace Stegner

Oct – Brooklyn – Colm
Toibin

Nov – The Guernsey Literary
and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Ann Shaffer

Dec – Waiting for Snow in Havana – Carlos Eire

2011

Jan – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson

Feb – Kabul
Beauty School
– Deborah Rodriguez

March – Devils
Highway – Luis Alberto Urrea

April – Empire of the Summer Moon – SC Gwynne

May – Cutting for Stone – Abraham Verghese

June – Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet – Jamie Ford

July – travel/biography/small dog book

Aug – travel/biography/small dog book

Sept – Blood Meridian
– Cormac McCarthy

Oct – Stiff – Mary Roach

Nov – The Help – Kathryn Stockett

Dec – The Talisman – Sir Walter Scott

2012

Jan – The Road To Jerusalem
– Jan Guillou

Feb – Crazy Stupid Love

March – Case Histories – Kate Atkinson

April – A Visit From The Goon Squad – Jennifer Eagan

May – A Visit From The Goon Squad – Jennifer Eagan

June – The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins

July – The Bone People – Keri Hulme

Aug – Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel

Sept – Snow Flower and the Secret Fan – Lisa See

Oct – Glass
Castle – Jeannette Walls

Nov – City of Ember
– Jeanne DuPrau

Dec – Payback: debt and the shadow side of wealth Margaret Atwood

2013

Jan – Hot Time in the Old Town

Feb – Three Dog Life – Abigail Thomas

March – I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced, Ali Nujood, non
fiction

April – Miss Dreamsville and The Collier County Woman’s
Literary Society,Amy Hill Hearth

May – The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern

June – Into the Silence: the Great War, Mallory and the
conquest of Everest, DavidWade

July – Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor

August – Readers Choice and To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper
Lee

September – Choose a Franklin Roosevelt biography

Oct – Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher, Timothy Eagan

Nov – The True Story of Hansel and Gretel, Louise Murphy

Dec – A Week in Winter, Maeve Binchy

2014

Jan – Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo

Feb – Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalan

March – any book by Alice Munro

April – Mary Coin, Marisa Sher

May- Book of Ages The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin,
Jill Keoire

June – Boys in the Boat, Daniel Brown

July – Childhood’s End, Arthur C Clarke

Aug – Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka

Sept – Wild, Cheryl Strayed

Oct – Norwegian by Night, Derek B Miller

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