We had our Coffee Chat yesterday and many of our regular members attended.  Some of our favorites from the 2014 book selections included:

Drop Dead Healthy	Jacobs, A.J.
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald	Fowler, Therese Anne
Home Front	Hannah, Kristin
Good Dream	VanLiere, Donna
Wild	Strayed, Cheryl
Where We Belong	Giffin, Emily

Some of the books we didn't read for book group but were recommended by members included:

The Book Thief	Zusak, Markus
Century Trilogy	Follett, Ken
Fever Tree	McVeigh, Jennifer
Lei Crime series (on order @ LME Library)	Neal, Toby
The Martian	Weir, Andy

Our next book group meeting will be January 26, 2015 at 3pm in the Turner Room.  All are welcome! We will be discussing The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin.  

At our November 24th meeting, we discussed Where We Belong by Emily Giffin.  Refreshments included pecan pie, iced pumpkin coffee cake, and cream cheese filled pumpkin snickerdoodles.  We also choose the rest of our books for next year (please see 2015 Titles post).

Bookgroup met on Octgober 27th and we assembled in the meeting room so that we could watch some video book reviews for possible 2015 selections. 

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles was discussed and we had fruit in puff pastries and crackers with cream cheese and hot pepper jelly.  

Next meeting we will finish choosing fiction titles for 2015 and discuss Where We Belong by Emily Giffin.  Copies of the book are available at the LME Library.  Discussion sheets can be picked up or are available online. 

Wondering how we pick the books for bookgroup?  Well, it's a group effort!  Beth pulls together potential titles throughout the year from reading lists and suggestions from the group.  Since we have several members who prefer large print or audio, she then checks to make sure that the title is available in these formats.  If a title does not have multiple formats, we don't use it for bookgroup.

In October, the list is complete and sheets are made up with all the potential titles.  We review half the books at the October bookgroup meeting and vote on our favorites. The other half is reviewed the same way in November.

So far, we've looked at some fiction titles.  Next month, we will review the rest of the fiction and choose the non-fiction.  Do we have any titles chosen yet?  You bet!  We still need to choose at least 4 more fiction titles and 3 non-fiction books but here are 5 fiction books we will be reading next year:

• Home Front by Kristin Hannah
• Someone: A Novel by Alice McDermott
• The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
• Where We Belong by Emily Giffin
• Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler

Once we have all the books chosen, we'll post them to this blog.  Watch for the list in early December and don't forget to talk about a good book!