Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Hello Ladies

Ok...I am giving this a test try to see if it works. Liz thanks for setting up this great site. I love the family blog my family uses. It is so exciting to look at the list of books read. My husband, Harvey, and I are reading the biography of Robert Frost right now aloud to John. It is a facinating story and well written by Jean Gould. I really enjoy reading as a family activity. I am reading "Milk Glass Moon", third in a series of books by Adriana Trigiani. She also wrote "Big Stone Gap" and "Big Cherry Holler." They are easy reads with a very light mountain storyline. For some reason I relate to the main character, so I enjoy the books. Can't wait to hear what everyone else is up to. Hope everyone is having a nice start to the school year.
Kathleen

Sunday, September 2, 2007

Welcome to NC Bookettes!

To start us off, I'll show where we've been. The list includes what we've read or done so far in group meetings. Take a look to check that I've not left anything out. Email me any corrections - and please include suggestions for our links at the side of the page, picture, or group descriptions. I've set up the blog so anyone can comment (these will be reviewed before being accepted, to screen out advertising etc.), Bookettes can post main entries, and I'm not sure who has edit authority to the settings and templates. I do, but I'd like to expand that to anyone who'd like to help me maintain the site - not sure if that's possible, we'll see!

Welcome to our reading room!

TitleAuthor
Girl With A Pearl EarringTracy Chevalier
The Dive from Clausen's PierAnn Packer
The Human StainPhilip Roth
Bee SeasonMyla Goldberg
Lovely BonesAlice Sebold
Blind AssassinMargaret Atwood
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ClayMichael Chabon
The GroupMary McCarthy
The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy
Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf
A Girl Named SkippyHaven Kimmel
Founding BrothersJoseph J. Ellis
My Dream of YouNuala O'Faolain
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective AgencyAlexander McCall Smith
The Lady and the UnicornTracy Chevalier
Life of PiYann Martel
Man in the Gray Flannel SuitSloan Wilson
The Kitchen BoyRobert Alexander
Open Secrets - short storiesAlice Munro
Blood MeridianCormac McCarthy
Absalom, AbsalomWilliam Faulkner
Crossing to SafetyWallace Stegner
Balzac and the Little Chinese SeamstressDai Sijie
Of the FarmJohn Updike
Short StoriesJohn Cheever
The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen
The ActualSaul Bellow
The Piano TunerDaniel Mason
Tortilla CurtainTC Boyle
Kite RunnerKhaled Hosseini
Little Black Book of StoriesAS Byatt
Cloud AtlasDavid Mitchell
Disgrace J.M. Coetzee
Wolf WhistleLouis Nordan
Bring 2 favorite poems to discussn/a
Seasoned in the SouthBill Smith
100 Years of SolitudeGabriel Garcia Marquez
The Bookseller of KabulAsne Seierstad
WaitingHa Jin
Long and Happy LifeReynolds Price
The Bluest EyeToni Morrison
LolitaVladimir Nabokov
Remains of the DayKazuo Ishiguro
CaravansJames Mitchener
EmmaJane Austen
Old FilthJane Gardam