Talk About a Good Book

April 28 - Burgess Boys

Our last book club meeting was March 31 when we discussed Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler. For refreshments we had ginger ale, mini chocolate croissants, berries and crostini.

Our next book will meet April 28th at 3pm in the Turner Room. Our book is Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout. Discussion sheets are available in the library and online. Please join us!

Book Club Infographic March 2014

BookBrowse has this great Infographic on book club statistics that they just released. I thought it was interesting that today's book club members tend to read some non-fiction and seem to like reading guides--both of which our club loves!

Our next meeting is Monday, March 31st at 3pm in the Turner Room--please join us!

March 2014--Z by Therese Fowler

Our book group meet on 2/24 and discussed Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs. We had healthy snacks and everyone enjoyed the book.

Our next read is Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler. Discussion sheets are available in the library. The online sheet will be available shortly. We'll meet on March 31 at 3pm in the Turner Room.

Other Book Club Picks

I was just reading this article about the top book club picks as determined by bookmovement.com and noticed that our book club has already read three of the top 10! All of these books (even the rising stars) are part of the LME Library collection. To check for available, search the library catalog online at rsacat.alsrsa.org/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/57/49?user_id=LILLIE-M-EWEB

The following were the most popular book club books during January based on votes from more than 100,000 book club readers from more than 39,000 book clubs registered at Bookmovement.com:

1. The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty (Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam)
2. The Goldfinch: A Novel by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown)
3. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Knopf)
4. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline (Morrow)
5. The Light Between Oceans: A Novel by M.L. Stedman (Scribner)
6. And the Mountains Echoed: A Novel by (Riverhead)
7. Where'd You Go, Bernadette: A Novel by Maria Semple (Little, Brown)
8. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Crown)
9. The Kitchen House: A Novel by Kathleen Grissom (Touchstone)
10. The Language of Flowers: A Novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (Ballantine)

Rising Stars:
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan (Ecco)
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking)

February 2014 - Drop Dead Healthy

Our next book group meeting will be Monday, February 24 at 3pm in the LME Library Turner Room. Our book selection is Drop Dead Healthy by A.J. Jacobs. The discussion sheet is available online. All are welcome to attend!

Here is a short summary:
"Drop Dead Healthy teems with hilarity and warmth and pushes our cultures assumptions about and obsessions with what makes good health, allowing the reader to reflect on his or her own health, body, and eventual mortality."