The Loins (formerly know as the Reeds) Book Group
The joy of a good book group is reading things you would not normally read, discussing things you would not normally discuss, and thinking in ways you would not normally think with special, unique, fun people.
"The worth
of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
-James
Bryce
"What
we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with
us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
-Thomas
Carlyle
"I
still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the
walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want
to see."
-John
Burroughs
The
test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for
the reading of it."
-Elizabeth
Drew
"Read, every
day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else
is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity."
-Christopher
Morley
Book (Author) (Book group selection) (Group Recommendation)
The Reader
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt) Strongly Recommended
‘Tis (Frank McCourt) Not Recommended
Drinking: A Love Story (Caroline Knapp) Recommended
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver) Recommended
The Sheltering Sky (Paul Bowles) (Dan H) Recommended
The Farming of the Bones (Edwidge Danticat) Recommended
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy) Strongly Recommended
Dogeaters (Jessica Hagedorn) (Mary Ruth) Recommended
Angle of Repose (Wallace Stegner) (Gail) Recommended
Possession (A.S. Byatt) (Brenda) Recommended
Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture (Apostolos Doxiades) Recommended
Ahab’s Wife (Sena Jeter Naslund) (Brenda) Not Recommended
So Vast the Prison (Assia Djebar) (Mary Ruth) Recommended
Another Marvelous Thing (Lori Colywyn) (Gretel) Recommended
While I Was Gone (Sue Miller) Recommended
Postcards (Annie Proulx) (Mary Ruth) Recommended
Heart Songs (Annie Proulx) Recommended
Coming Through Slaughter (Michael Ondaatje) Recommended
Inland Sea (Steve Varni) (Dan H) Strongly Recommended
Here on Earth (Alice Hoffman) Recommended
As Nature Made Him(John Colapinto) (Tami) Strongly Recommended
The Hours (Michael Cunningham) Strongly Recommended
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen) Strongly Recommended
Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) Recommended
Empire Falls (Richard Russo) (Gail) Strongly Recommended
The Lecturer’s Tale (James Hynes) (Tami) Recommended
The Risk Pool (Richard Russo) (Dan H.) Recommended
2003
White Teeth (Zadie Smith) (Brenda) Recommended
Sept. The Seal Wife (Kathryn Harrison) (Kathy) Recommended
Oct. The Dogs of Babel (Carolyn Parkhurst)(Gail) Recommended
Nov. The Solace of Open Spaces(Gretel Ehrlich) (Mary Ruth D)Recommended
Dec. Running with Scissors (Augusten Burroughs) (Tami E) Recommended
2004
Jan. You Are Not a Stranger Here (Adam Haslett) (Dan H.) Recommended
Feb. Tepper Isn't Going Out (Calvin Trillin) (Dan S.) Recommended
March The Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole) (Brenda B)
Not Recommended
April Dry (Augusten Burroughs) (Kathy) Recommended
July Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides0 (Gail D) Strongly Recommended
September Hash (Torgny Lindgren) (Mary Ruth D) Recommended
October The Whore’s Child (Richard Russo) (Tami E) Recommended