Book Review: Keep Moving by Maggie Smith

Book: Keep Moving by Maggie Smith

Genre: nonfiction  motivational

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★

The subtitle for this one is "notes on loss, creativity and change." It all started when the author suffered through a divorce that devastated her. She started writing tweets to help herself get through things. And people really resonated with these tweets and so she compiled them into this book. Mixed throughout the tweets are snippets of her story and the struggles she's faced.

We read this one for book club and found out it wasn't the best to encourage a discussion. I enjoyed reading it and really related to a lot of the thoughts here. However, I didn't mark them and so it was hard to talk about, short of just flipping through the book and reading everything out loud.

Anyway. That being said, while reading it I would sometimes have to stop and really think about many of these thoughts... or affirmations I guess they are called. Some of them really hit home, even though I haven't had a big loss or anything. A lot of them had to do with just being good to yourself and allowing yourself to just keep plugging along despite the negative thoughts. And also how to keep fighting against negative thoughts. Something I deal with constantly. 

So, in the end, I really enjoyed it. Kind want to print up the ones I loved the most and put them where I can see them all the time. You know?

MINI BOOK REVIEWS! September 2021 to December 2021

 So... to catch up... I'm just going to list the books I haven't fully "reviewed" yet (from 2021) with a little mini thought, and then have a fresh start for the year.

Sunkissed by Kasie West: Fun, musically-themed story that includes a summer camp romance with a hot, long haired, sensitive guitar player. All while managing to fulfill one's own dreams. Cute and fun summer romance, and just what I'd expect from Kasie West. She remains one of my all time favorite comfort authors. Love her stuff so much!

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman: We read this one for book club and while I enjoyed the first page immensely (I have never related to something SO MUCH!) I was soon feeling...um.. anxious about the story. The character made me crazy, the premise made me crazy. But my buddies said... DO NOT QUIT... so I didn't and they were right. All these things redeemed themselves and everything made sense in the end. And the characters ended up being lovely and perfectly relatable. What a great premise for a story that really looks deep into stuff we all have to deal with in life. It was great. This author's writing is fantastic, as most of you know.  

Not Playing Fair by Terri Osburn: By an author friend of mine.. and I got to read this advanced copy. Fun romance about a baseball playing librarian heroine who is getting over being dumped when a new dude shows up to play ball.  She also has issues with her mom who she hasn't talked to for years when suddenly a letter from her shows up in the mail. Oh dear! Totally fun and fluff read!

Furia by Yamile Saied Mendez: By a local author who, with this very book, was featured on Reese Witherspoon's Book Club! It's about a girl who's dream is to play soccer, but her family thinks it's crazy for her. She is out to prove them wrong!

You Have a Match by Emma Lord: This one is about what happens if you take a DNA test and get a surprise. Our girl realizes she is a perfect match to be sisters with someone who lives in her town, but has never met. So they meet up and decide what they will do from there. Confront their parents? Become friends? Or not? This one features summer camp experiences too, just like the book above. 

A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey: I really loved this one (fantastic writing!) about a Cuban girl from Miami who is struggling with lots of things that have gone wrong in her life, so her family ships her off to spend the summer with her aunt in London. And how she finds herself there despite her best efforts to continue to hate life. SO MUCH FOOD in this book! I need all the recipes! (As if I could 1. actually make them and 2. actually eat them. Sigh.)

And those are all the books I read starting from when I last posted a review through the end of 2021. Not a whole lot I know, but I'm at least still reading!

Book Club Picks 2021-2022

Here's our schedule for book club this next year! We are doing DOUBLE THE BOOKS during the summer! This cracks me up given that the whole book club is experiencing a slump. Maybe this will help? I guess we'll see!

Anyway, over the years our book club lists have been popular, so I wouldn't want to neglect you all of seeing what we've chosen yet again. 

Have you read any and do you have thoughts about what we have coming up?

The Giver of Stars AND The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek: June

Born a Crime/ They Called Us Enemy: July

Seven Deadly Shadows/My Plain Jane: August

Anxious People: September

The Picture of Dorian Gray: October

I am the Messenger: November

Emily of New Moon: December

Keep Moving: January

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before: February

Nine Perfect Strangers: March

Dread Nation: April

Carve the Mark: May

Wish us luck!!

Book Club Picks 2020-2021

Here's what the book club has voted to read for our upcoming schedule staring in June and going through May of next year.

Let us know if what Liane Moriarty book you think we should add to the line up! We've already read What Alice Forgot, and Big Little Lies. Which one do we need to read next???

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Body: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

Biased by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Spinning Silver by Noami Novik

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal

Resistance by Jennifer A. Nielsen

The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary

a book by Liane Moriarty yet to be determined

It's quite the list of different things, don't you think? I love it when that happens!

Book Club Choices 2019 -2020

We have made our marks and voted! Here's what the book club will be reading the rest of this year and into next! Wish us luck! We've been doing this for FIFTEEN YEARS now and hopefully aren't losing steam and have awhile to go still!

Let us know if you've read any of these and what we might have to look forward to.

2019
May: Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
June: Ban This Book by Alan Gratz
July: A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
August: The Hollow City by Dan Wells
September: One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus
October: A Darker Shade of magic by V.E. Schwab
November: The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
December: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

2020
January: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
February: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
March: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
April: Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
May: The First Fifteen Lives of Henry August by Claire North

Book Club Book Choices 2019

It's voting time for the book club.
We are celebrating our 15th year in existence this year! CRAZY!!!

We had a first round of voting and these books made the first cut:

Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

The Hollow City by Dan Wells

A Room With a View by E.M. Forster

Ban This Book by Alan Gratz

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Now we are voting on these books to see which ones will make
the cut to round our our schedule.

What comments and/or suggestions do you have to help us choose?

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi

The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Perfume Collector by Kathleen Tessaro

Red China Blues by Jan Wong

Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio by Terry Ryan

The Year in Provence by Peter Mayle

My Story by Elizabeth Smart

Educated by Tara Westover

Bottom line: I just want to read them all!!

Announcing: THE KPOP BOOK CLUB!

So this is an idea I've had for quite a long time, and it's all coming together finally since we met a new friend and BookTuber, Emily Boone. (Check out her channel here.)

So over on YouTube we've been participating in a fun Friday meme where we have to come up with five songs every week based on a theme. And I'm having fun thinking up kpop songs that fit each weeks theme. (This week is a Halloween theme and AH! So good!)  Well, Emily participates in this meme too and in the process of going around watching everyone's Friday Five videos, she liked our songs and.... bam... e have "konvertered" her to kpop! Most awesome thing ever.

Here's her video talking about that:



And then we thought we should do something together.. collab as they say. And so we've decided to start a KPOP BOOK CLUB! Here's Emily announcing THAT on her channel:



We plan to read books that our favorite kpop stars love and recommend (it's a long enormous list) and books they have written or compiled (if we can at all find them) and books about Korea or set in Korea... and books that might be based off or on a kdrama... or books that are like a kdrama. Oh, and there are fun books about falling in love with kpop stars too. Yep.. there's TONS!

We've started a Goodreads group for this, so if it sounds at all interesting to you, find us over there: Kpop Book Club Goodreads Group.

Our first discussion will be on Emily's channel at some point down the road (we'll give it a month or two at least) and then we'll chose the next book and discuss on our channel... and go back and forth like that.

Our first book is Please Look After Mom by Kyung Sook Shin, and I'm hearing some pretty great things about it. If you start reading and want to discuss, find us on Twitter using the #kpopbookclub hashtag too! I can't wait to get started!!!

Our Book Club Schedule 2018-2019

We've just finished up the voting process for the book club and here's what ended up on the list:

June 2018: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

July 2018: Undomestic Goddess by Sophie Kinsella

August 2018: Summerlost by Ally Condie

September 2018: The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright

October 2018: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

November 2018: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

December 2018: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

January 2019:  Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder

February 2019:  The Marriage Bureau by Penrose Halson

March 2019: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate

April 2019: The Girl With Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee

May 2019: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

What do you think? Have you read a bunch of them? Do we we have much to look forward to? I think so!!

Book Review: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Book: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Genre: Science Fiction
Rating:★★★★☆

This book was our October/Halloween-y book for book club this month. We'll be discussing it tonight and it should be interesting since I'm getting vibes that there is a variety of opinion. As for me, I thought it was awesome and suspenseful and thought provoking.

It's about a dude who is happy in his life, and yet, he wonders, in the back of his mind what would have happened had he chosen a different path. The other road, if you will. Well, and so he gets to find out and it's not a good thing.

He gets abducted one night and when he wakes up, he realizes he's in a different world, a different reality. And in fact, it's the reality of the very thing he's been wondering...what would things be like if he had chosen differently.

And now all he wants to do is to get back to his family, and his world.

It's not easy.

I thought it was a great page turning and twisty story. And it made you really think about all the different decisions you make in life and how things would be if you chose other things. And how we should love and appreciate the life we're in at the moment. Because what if you woke up one and it was all gone. It's like everyone's classic worse nightmare.

I thought it was great. It's been awhile since a book held my attention like this one. I'd been looking forward to reading for quite some time. I'm glad it lived up to the anticipation.

Book Review: Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

Book: Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
Genre: Memoir
Rating: ★★★☆☆

We read this one for book club last month/week. Thankfully it appeared on my Kindle in the nick of time so I managed to read it as we were coming home from the trip and in the few days before book club. I really wanted to see what all the fuss was about!

And... I'm still not sure what all the fuss was about. Sure, it's a funny. But in a weird way. Most people at book club found it hilariously funny, but I found it only mildly funny. I've learned my kind of funny usually doesn't seem to match everyone else's kind. It's a weird thing. I've learned to deal.

I thought the book would be more about the author's journey with anxiety, depression and other such things. But, while she mentions these things, most of the book was more just snippets of the strange little moments in her life and strange little thoughts that go on in her head. It was like reading someone's Twitter. Where you have a bit more than 140 characters to use.

And I enjoyed some of them. Most of them I thought were just sort of silly and dumb. And but there were moments that made me smile. (Not sure I ever LOLed like everyone else said they did. Maybe at the kangaroo in the dark in Australia. Maybe a little at the stupid people on the plane. Probably because I was fresh from traveling too?)

So, I felt like, wait, where's all the funny things about dealing with anxiety? I don't know. I guess this is how she deals, thinking up these random things. It did get a little more serious and had some profound-ish thoughts about mental illness toward the end. So, I guess it did address the issues after all.

You know all the random thought blog posts I've done? This book was just that... random thoughts that really didn't have anything to do with each other. Who knew you could do a random thought book? I mean... I might have to look into that!

Book Club Potential Reads for 2017-18

It's that time of year when the book club is pondering a list of books to read during the next year! (Don't ask me why March is the month we do this. It just is!) And I've made it tradition to post this list here and get your all wise and wonderful feedback!

So let us know what you think of this year's list of potentials! Should any be voted in for sure? Should any be voted out?

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Living Reed by Pearl S. Buck
All The Truth That’s in Me by Julie Berry
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta
Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North
The Sugar Queen by Sarah Addison Allen
A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer
Ross Poldark by Winston Graham
Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
My Lady Jane by Brodi Ashton
Paper Magician by Charlie Holmberg
Followed by Frost by Charlie Holmberg
The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams
The Hollow City by Dan Wells
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive when the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

Book Club Potional Reads 2016-2017

Every year I enjoy posting the list of books we as a book club are choosing from for our next year's schedule. Here's what we are pondering reading this next year:

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Chosen by Chiam Potok
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry
Finding Audry by Sophie Kinsella
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
All the Light We Cannont See by Anthony Doer
Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
One of Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales
Burning Glass by Kathryn Purdie
a mystery by Anne Perry
The Martian by Andy Weir
Still Alice by Lisa Genova
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Quiet: The Power of Introverts by Susan Cain
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

So...what do you think? Any comments for us on anything in this list? Let us know what we simply MUST read, or simply MUST stay away from!

Utah Book Month Read Along: Not in the Script Part Two Discussion Questions and Pictures from Book Club

We wrapped up our first annual Utah Book Month read along yesterday! The questions for the second half of Not in the Script are up over on the main blog. I loved re-reading this book (for both the read along and for book club, which was last night!) Such a fun romance! Here are my very short answers to the questions:


Not in the Script Part Two Discussion Questions

1. Have your opinions of any of the characters changed from the first half?

I'm a little more bugged at Brett then I was in the first half. But still, I think he can overcome his issues given help and time.

2. Would you watch Coyote Hills?

Yes, for sure!

3. Did everything go down like you thought it would?

Yes, pretty much. But even though it was a re-read for me, I'd forgotten the details!

4. If there's a lesson to be learned from this story, what do you think it is?

Everything is not always as it seems.

5. How do you feel about the portrayal of the parents of these characters?

I'm more aware of parents in books these days. And I actually liked these parents! Even Jake's dad seemed to come around. Emma's mom was annoying, but only because she wants the best for Emma. And she didn't throw a fit when Emma wanted to "fire" her. And then how both her parents were involved in the make up at the end? I loved that. 

6. What parts felt realistic and what parts felt unrealistic?

All the shooting the show scenes feel very realistic. The paparazzi stuff feels realistic. Maybe how good these kids are, well Emma and Jake anyway, a little unrealistic. Not that I didn't like that. How easy Jake's mom takes to Emma, probably a little unrealistic.

7. What was your favorite part?

So many favorite parts! The kiss by the truck for sure. Emma and Jake dancing and no one catches them. When Emma ties Jake's shoelaces together. When Jake and his mom tease Emma about Charlie. Umm.... I guess that's good for now.

8. Who was your favorite character?

Jake of course. Because he makes me laugh.

9. Do you have a favorite quote from the book?

"I've heard that nine out of ten girls pass out when they get this close to you."  LOL! I don't know. I didn't mark the book up so now I can't find them!

10. If you were in charge of a sequel, what major plot would you include?

I would explore Brett's hopeful growth and change more. I would like to see how Jake and Emma turn out, if all really is well. I don't really care much about what happens with Rachel and her TV show. 

We had Amy Finnegan join us for book club last night. She told lots of behind the scene stories from Parks and Rec, and Parenthood. And how she interviewed Chris Pratt (for this book basically) and talked for hours to James Franco on the plane and fangirled a bit over Justin Beiber at the pool. We had a great time! 

Pictures:

The whole crowd.

Jenny, Kami, Kathy, Amy, Jenni and me

Enthralled!

Amy brought pictures to show!

If you read along with us, I hope you had fun! I'm guessing we'll be doing more Utah Book Read Alongs in the future so stay tuned!

Potential Books for Book Club 2015

Every year I like to share with you the books we are voting on for the next year's book club schedule. It's fun to see what you all have to say about them!

Here are the possibles for this next year, listed in their respective categories.

October Book

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Classics

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

YA/MG

Wonder by R. J. Palacio

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Waiting for Normal by Leslie Connor

Utah Author

The Chosen One by Carol Lynch Williams

Elevated by Elana Johnson

The Rent Collector by Camron Wright

Literary Fiction

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Non Fiction

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Graphic/Play

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Smile by  Raina Telgemeier

Are there some on this list that you think we simply can't pass up? If so, here's hoping it gets voted in! We are trying to narrow this down to about 12, so only a few will get eliminated. It's always fun to see what pulls out ahead!

In Which The World's Strongest Librarian Comes to Book Club!

Since it's Utah Book Month this month, our book club decided to read a book by a Utah author. The book they chose was The World's Strongest Librarian by Josh Hanagarne. Turns out, the library even had a book club set for this book! Which is always a plus for our book club.

We planned to meet next week on our normal third Thursday but after a fun turn of events due to a Twitter conversation I had, we met last night instead and Josh Hanagarne himself came and joined us!

I was so very nervous. Talk about doing something out of your comfort zone! So I rallied the book club and I said, hey, if you haven't read the book yet.. read it now! And bring guests (friends, husbands, kids, moms) to book club! And they did and last night, we had an awesome, interested and engaged crowd!

And Josh came and he was fun and interesting and willing to answer pretty much any question we had. In the end after we gave him a thank you gift that included a t-shirt from the library, he even modeled his book stack spine tattoo when he changed shirts. LOL!

Some of the things we talked about:

• his relationship with his parents, particularly his mom who was featured so strongly in the book. 
• how the book came about, which was sort of accidentally, when someone fell in love with his blog
• how he learned to write? From reading! And practicing. "If you don't have time to read, you don't have time to write."
• the difference between a memoir and an autobiography: a memoir is a certain slant on a life...there's a theme. An autobiography is the whole life of a person... beginning to end.
• Did you get your Mark Twain set back? YES!!
• "Everything is a story." Even math spreadsheets.
• We talked a lot about honesty. His book is so honest and forthright, and yet, things in just the past few years have changed yet again. And now he's so different even from the person who wrote that book. There's another memoir in the works to talk about all the changes...I think.
• One of the big changes.. divorce. I know many of us were curious about this one and he talked about it a little. 
• Book crushes since Fern? The girl that appears only for a paragraph or two in Carols Ruiz Zafron's The Angel's Game. 
• Some favorite books: anything by Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, Catch 22, Don Quixote. But the book he's read the most... Terminator 2!

Here's a few pictures: 

Josh Hanagarne with girlfriend Angela

A crowd shot

More of the interested audience!

Here's our posed picture... and even then a few people
didn't jump in.

Changing shirts and showing of the tattoo!

My husband handed him a phone book.
This was the result!

 Such a fun evening! It will go down as one of our best book club moments. Thanks to Josh for joining us!

Ten Years of Book Club!

This week we celebrated our book club's ten year anniversary! We had a BBQ and lots of desserts and treats and just talked and talked about our book club books and memories.

As part of the evening, I set up as many books as I could find in my house that we read for book club and displayed them. I forgot to take a picture, but here in this over all shot you can see the piles.

I stacked them by the different years we read them. Everyone that came looked through the stacks and were able to instantly pin point when they joined, because everyone remembers the first book they read with the group. I love that!

We asked (and answered) a few questions, such as:

• Longest book we read: The Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged ) at 1276 pages... or if you read the abridged... Middlemarch at 904
• Shortest book: 84 Charring Cross Road at 94 pages
• How many books read? 109
• Most read author? Megan Whelan Turner since we did her whole series one summer. After that it's a tie between Jane Austen, Shannon Hale, Neal Shusterman, Elizabeth Gaskill, J.K. Rowling, etc.
• First book read: The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Most recent book read: Wintergirlsl (which we discussed a little bit and decided it was too depressing)
• Book we all hated: The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All... many also hated 1984.
• Best discussion: The Actor and the Housewife and The Kite Runner
• Some books people wouldn't have read without book club: The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, These is My Words, The Forgotten Garden.... etc. (This list goes on and on!)
• Movies we watched together: The Book Thief, Middlemarch and Pride and Prejudice 
• Book we've read twice: The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Book that we want to read again: North and South

Anyway, it was fun!

And the wonderful Jessica from The Bluestocking Society crafted this wonderful memory book for me complete with a list of the books we've read and their covers and then she had everyone write a memory to be included in the back. Some of the funny memories are:

• Fighting about The Actor and the Housewife
• A certain someone reading aloud her favorite kissing scene which had us gasping with laughter!
• Watching Pride and Prejudice together... the whole thing
• Reading new genres
• Have husbands join in
• Throwing Twilight books on the floor!

Ah, it's been fun. Here are some more pictures from the night:

And the GIF that I promised everyone my phone would do automatically!

LOL! Can you see Sam just appear in the picture?
And Jenni throws her phone so my son can take a picture for her?
And I'm telling my husband HOW to take the picture?
And how some people don't move at all?
It's awesome.

Here's who's who:

Kathy, Tessa (with Sam behind her), Trina, Kim, Jessica, Jenny, Suey, Michelle, Bethany
Jenni Elyse, Jessica, Kami and Julie
missing were another Jen, and Jayne... and I think that's pretty much everyone that usually comes!

Here's to ten more years! And at least a hundred more books!

Book Club Books for 2014-15

The results are in! Here's what my IRL book club has chosen to read this coming year:

• Unbroken (this book was already on the list and I think we'll finally get to it in October!)
• Persuasion and For Darkness Shows the Stars the same month. Cool!
• Winter’s Tale. Has anyone seen the movie? Is it good?
• Wintergirls for a little taste of a book written in verse. Also because Laurie Halse Anderson is awesome.
• Pope Joan. We've been wanting to read this one forever.
• The Golem and  the Jinni. The popular book of last year.
• The False Princess. Because we needed a fairy tale fantasy.
• The World’s Strongest Librarian. He's local! And many of the book club members haven't read it yet, so let's do it!
• Out of the Easy. We loved Between Shades of Gray. So we needed to read this one.
• Catcher in the Rye. Many members haven't read this one and are curious. This could be interesting!
• Maus. We wanted to include a graphic novel and this one is probably one of the most well known. I think. This experiment could be interesting too!
• And Fairy Tale Re-tellings for a summer project! We love summer projects in our book club!
• Plus, several book club members who are also bloggers want to do some bonus read alongs for the following books: North and South, Dune and The Lord of the Rings. I'm sure you'll be seeing more info about those as they come up. We'd love to have you join us!

Well? What do you think? It's an awesome line up, yes? And seven of them I haven't read yet! Double yes!