Wednesday 21 October 2015

Maggie: Book Group program 2015-2016

This is the Book Group's planning meeting .. 
......chez Rosie on Friday, October 2nd.
 
Thanks to everyone for book suggestions, delicious luncheon, and especially to Rosie and John for once again allowing us to descend upon them.
 
From left:  Terri, Denise, Karen, Peggy, Agnes, Kathie, John, Katharine J, Anne
The voting was close.  This is the list of the books we chose, and the dates and presenters:


Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys -  13 November (suggested by Karen)

Nora Webster, by Colm Toíbín -  11 December (suggested by Agnes)

1000 White Women, by Jim Fergus -  8 January  (suggested by Denise)

The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes -  12 February  (suggested by Rosie)

The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai -  11 March (suggested by Anne)

State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett -  8 April (suggested by Maggie)

All the Light We Cannot See -  13 May  (suggested by Julie)

A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler -  10 June  (suggested by Katherine J)

Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray -  16 September  (suggested by Peggy R)

Super Sad True  Love Story, by Gary Shteyngart- 14 October (suggested by Karen)
Also suggested, but which did not survive the tie-breaks:
The Garden of Evening Mists, by Tan Twan Eng - suggested by Jan C and Katharine C
Love and Treasure, by Ayelet Waldman - suggested by Katharine C
Brooklyn, by Colm Toíbín - suggested by Agnes
The Miniaturist, by Jessie Burton - suggested by Denise
The Lady and the Peacock; the Life of Aung San Suu Khi, by Peter Popham - suggested by Maggie
The Green Road, by Anne Enright - suggested by KatharineJ

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