Book Talk Day

"Life Studies" by Susan Vreeland did not come in on time for our discussion today, but we had a great book talk day. Here's a list of what we've all been reading. Oh I can't wait to read some of these!

1. The Nine: the Secret World of the Supreme Court- by Jeffrey Toobin

2. Guns of August- Barbara Tuchman

3. Judgment of Paris- Ross King

4. Loving Frank- Nancy Horan

5. Caspian rain : a novel - Nahai, Gina Barkhordar.

6. Team of Rivals: The political genius of Abraham Lincoln – Doris Goodwin

7. The Kid Stays in the Picture – Robert Evens

8. Gone Boy: A Walkabout- Gregory Gibson

9. Life and Times of the Thunderboldt Kid-- Bill Bryson

10. Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words – Bill Bryson

11. The Street of 1000 blossoms—Gail Tsukiyama

12. The Samurai’s Garden—Gail Tsukiyama

13. Before Green Gables—Budge Wilson

14. Summer at Tiffany—Marjorie Hart

15. Dresden—Alexander McKee

16. Better: A surgeon’s notes on performance—Atul Gawande

17. Zoro- Isabelle Allende

18. What is the Alienist

19. Soldiers of the Great War

20. 19 minutes—Jodi Piccoult

21. My Sister’s Keeper—Jodi Piccoult

22. Plain Truth—Jodi Piccoult

23. Book of the Navajo—Raymond Locke

24. Suite Francaise—Irene Nemirovsky

25. Life and death in occupied France during World War II

26. The Road—Cormac McCarthy

27. Middlesex—Jeffrey Eugenides

28. The Last of Her Kind-- Sigrid Nunez

29. Schlepping Through the Alps- Sam Apple

30. Neither here nor There- Bill Bryson

After our discussion of what we are all reading, I showed everyone how to post a comment to this blog. If you are reading this and have a thought to add, by all means, please do! I want to know I have an audience! I also did a demo of LibraryThing, Novelist, and Lit Resource. Do you have a collection of books you would like to catalog? Simply add the ISBN into LibraryThing and you can get the record, and even edit it! You can add keywords, and see what other people are reading. Fun for one in all!