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eClaire
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Posted: Mon Sep 22nd, 2008 03:13 |
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 On Saturday, Sept 27, I'll post the last set of questions for Book 1 from the LifeStyles Forum's Book List (compiled from suggestions by form members). Claire
A volunteer moderator is needed RIGHT AWAY to (1) select the next book from the Lifestyles Forum Book List, (2) set a start date (allowing people enough time to secure the book), (3) make up a reading schedule (the particpants of Book 1 were reading 30 to 40 pages a week), (4) post a new thread with that information, and (5) post book group questions every Saturday night or early Sunday morning for the chapters read (beginning with the start date).
The following is an example of the Subject Line and Description line used in the Book 1 thread:
Subject: Book Group - Book 1
Description: Where the Heart Is ... by Billie Letts ... start date 8/2
Anyone interested in being a moderator can look at http://mp-lifestyles.org/view_topic.php?id=70&forum_id=1 for an example of a basic set up.
Perhaps Markt9452 ought to consider being the next moderator...er, that's a not so private joke! (http://mp-lifestyles.org/forum1/25-8.html see 9/21 post...Mark, this is akin to arriving late to a business meeting or voluteering an idea and finding that you've volunteered yourself for more work!)
Back to business....
Please VOLUNTEER BELOW BY CALLING "DIBBS" in a reply post (the first person to reply and say, "Dibbs! I'm the new moderator" is "IT") and then select a book from the list below (following 1-5 above):
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd - 4 (A delightful story of a neglected young girl who runs away from home and is taken in by folk from her past.)
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear - 4 (This was highly recommended by two friends of an MPer even though it deals with the emotional after affects of war (WWI); the novel spans pre-WWI through post WWI w/ a female protagonist who appears quite adventurous for her time; it is a psychological sort of mystery with lots of food for thought.)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clark - 4 ("Set in 1809 England, a fusty old scholar turned magician tries to bring magic back to England. It has the cleverness and lightnes of the Harry Potter Series but is less of a fairy tale of good vs. evil and more a fantastic comedy of manners, complete with elaborate false footnotes.")
Freddy & Fredericka by Mark Helprin - 4 (A clever farce about the British royal family.....lyrical prose and epic imagination....in the end, a sweet book about kings and queens and why human beings might sometimes need them. About America, as well and why human beings might sometimes need it too.)
Peace Like a River by Enger - 4 ("To the list of great American child narrators that includes Huck Finn and Scout Finch, let us now add Reuben "Rube" Land, the asthmatic 11-year-old boy at the center of Leif Enger's remarkable first novel, Peace Like a River.")
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler - 3 plus (Although recommended by another MPer, despite the rating, Claire believes this to be Tyler's best work--or at least until she stopped reading Tyler--; a friend of Claire's who based her master's thesis said that this was considered far from her best work. While all her previous work, left Claire wanting to declare life entirely futile and wondering why anyone would read Tyler--sorry to all the Tyler fans out there, as Claire read all of her novels up and to this point and then quit because she didn't want to descend into futility once more after Tyler received a bit of a critical hit in the head for this book--, Breathing Lessons was for Claire Tyler's breath of fresh air among musty, fusty books...again, apologies to Tyler fans everywhere.)
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett - 3 plus ("In an unnamed South American country, a world-renowned soprano sings at a birthday party in honor of a visiting Japanese industrial titan. His hosts hope that Mr. Hosokawa can be persuaded to build a factory in their Third World backwater. Alas, in the opening sequence, just as the accompanist kisses the soprano, a ragtag band of 18 terrorists enters the vice-presidential mansion through the air conditioning ducts. Their quarry is the president, who has unfortunately stayed home to watch a favorite soap opera. And thus, from the beginning, things go awry.... In a fractious world, Bel Canto remains a gentle reminder of the transcendence of beauty and love.")
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok - 4 plus (This book had lots of 5 stars with a few 4 and one 3, one 2, and one 1. "A story about a young man's struggle between the secular world of an artist, and life as a Ladover Hasidic Jew, Chaim Potok's masterpiece MY NAME IS ASHER LEV is truly a classic." A review from a regular person.)
Song Yet Sung by James McBride - 5 ("Escaped slaves, free blacks, slave-catchers and plantation owners weave a tangled web of intrigue and adventure in bestselling memoirist, The Color of Water, McBride's intricately constructed and impressive second novel, set in pre–Civil War Maryland." The female protagonist develops the gift of prophesy and sees into modern America.)
The House of God: The Classic Novel of Life and Death in an American Hospital by Samuel Shem - 4 (A topic we love to hate...modern medicine. "Bawdy blistering... this is Catch-22 with stethoscopes." --Cosmopolitan. "Wildly funny... frightening... outrageous, moving... a story of modern medicine rarely, if, ever told." -- The Houston Chronicle.)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - 4 plus (A classic. If you've seen the movie, it captured the book, which proves to be every bit as good as the movie only more so. "Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race, class, justice, and the pain of growing up.")
 Let's keep this going folks!
YOU BE THE DECIDER! Last edited on Mon Sep 22nd, 2008 03:20 by eClaire
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Markt9452
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Posted: Mon Sep 22nd, 2008 03:38 |
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Oh NOoooooo.....
I think I'm starting to see a pattern with these books of yours...
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd - 4 (A delightful story of a neglected young girl who runs away from home and is taken in by folk from her past.)
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear - 4 (This was highly recommended by two friends of an MPer even though it deals with the emotional after affects of war (WWI); the novel spans pre-WWI through post WWI w/ a female protagonist who appears quite adventurous for her time; it is a psychological sort of mystery with lots of food for thought.)
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clark - 4 ("Set in 1809 England, a fusty old scholar turned magician tries to bring magic back to England. It has the cleverness and lightnes of the Harry Potter Series but is less of a fairy tale of good vs. evil and more a fantastic comedy of manners, complete with elaborate false footnotes.")
Freddy & Fredericka by Mark Helprin - 4 (A clever farce about the British royal family.....lyrical prose and epic imagination....in the end, a sweet book about kings and queens and why human beings might sometimes need them. About America, as well and why human beings might sometimes need it too.)
Nice try Claire
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eClaire
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Posted: Mon Sep 22nd, 2008 06:03 |
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Mark,
Not my pattern. The book list was compiled based on suggestions from Lifestyles Forum members. (I was conscripted myself for the task.) The only thing I did was to keep it to one book per writer...well, you can look through the original listing for the criteria.
Besides that's 4 books out of 11!
Claire
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Markt9452
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Posted: Mon Sep 22nd, 2008 11:06 |
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Aha!! It's a conspiracy then!!
Seriously though - I'm more of a non-fiction sorta guy....Right now I'm reading "The Physiography of Southern Ontario"
Glacial morphology - fun for the whole family!!
I think I'd like to remain an interested observer for right now...but thanks Claire.
Oh here is a good book for you guys..."The vitamin D cure" Dr. Dowd's new book, The Vitamin D Cure, is already getting praise from doctors and authors in the healthcare community...
Look he's even got his own radio station!!
Vitamin D Radio... Listen to Dr. Dowd discuss the benefits of Vitamin D in this interview by WOR 710 HD Radio Health Talk host, Dr. Ronald Hoffman.
or - maybe not...
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eClaire
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Posted: Mon Sep 22nd, 2008 12:34 |
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Markt9452 wrote: Seriously though - I'm more of a non-fiction sorta guy....Right now I'm reading "The Physiography of Southern Ontario"
Glacial morphology - fun for the whole family!!
Oh, then you'll like my suggestion on another thread that you consider starting a non-fiction thread (I read more non-fiction myself)!
YOU OR SOMEONE ELSE! * Hint, Hint *
Claire
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Posted: Mon Sep 22nd, 2008 12:36 |
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Hi Claire,
We had talked about the following book some time ago. I've read the reviews and although a book about Sarc patient Karen Duffy, she writes from a personal point of view and throws in her own humor as she deals with her disease.
If we think anyone would be interested in this, I would be happy to moderate a non-fiction such as this!
Model and actress Karen Duffy suffers from a form of sarcoidosis known as neurosarcoidosis. This effects her central nervous system and has her in constant, chronic pain. Duffy is best known as a former MTV VJ, Revlon model and Jim Carrey's co-star in the hit film Dumb and Dumber.
Recently she chronicled her story in the book Model Patient: My Life As an Incurable Wiseass. Deb
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Posted: Mon Sep 22nd, 2008 12:54 |
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Deb,
I think that is a great idea. Why don't you start the non-fiction book thread?
THAT IS, IF THE GUYS COULD STAND A NON-FICTION BOOK WRITTEN FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF A...GASP!...WOMAN!
Maybe someday we'll have several non-fiction book threads on various topics--e.g., medical, historical, other science, religion.
Claire
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eClaire
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Posted: Mon Sep 22nd, 2008 12:57 |
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With that said...Now for some mature commentary on the responses to my original post thus far....
Hey you guys!!! SOMEONE is supposed to be volunteering to be a moderator here!
Last edited on Mon Sep 22nd, 2008 12:58 by eClaire
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Posted: Tue Sep 23rd, 2008 07:01 |
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O.K. If everyone would like to continue with the bookclub on fiction I will try my hand at being moderator. I don't have any experience at this but Claire has set a good example, and it will be a challenge. I hope you can all be patient.
Are there any other volunteers out there?
Regards Lynn.
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Posted: Tue Sep 23rd, 2008 08:57 |
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We have a WINNER!!!
Lynn (Sunbeam) will be the next book club moderator!!!
Yeah!!!
Many thanks Lynn!
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Posted: Tue Sep 23rd, 2008 10:57 |
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Shine, Sunbeam, shine.
dette
Ooooh, but not too brightly. I'm only in my 10% NoIRs.
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