Sunday, December 20, 2009

Borat (the movie)

Meeting Date: December 8, 2006

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Donna - 3.5
Elizabeth - 1
Jim - 3
Lynn - 3
Michael - 4
Mollie - 4
Todd - 2.5
Average - 3

Digging to America by Ann Tyler

Meeting Date: November 17, 2006

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Donna - 3
Jim - 3.5
Lynn - 3
Michael - 4
Mollie - 4
Todd - 4
Average - 3.5

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky

Meeting Date: October 13, 2006

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Donna - 5
Jim - 5
Judy - 5
Lila - 5
Lynn -5
Michael - 4
Mollie - 5
Average - 5

Note: On September 9 we meet at Donna's beautiful new house. That meeting didn't get a separate entry because we didn't focus on a specific title but just had an open discussion of what we had read recently.

Everyman by Philip Roth

Meeting Date: August 11, 2006

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Donna - 1
Elizabeth - 1
Jim - 1.5
Judy - 5
Lila - 4.5
Mollie - 3
Average - 2.5

Dry: a Memoir by Augusten Burroughs

Meeting Date: June 16, 2006

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4
Elizabeth - 5
Jackie - 4
Jim - 4
Judy - 5
Lila - 5
Lynn - 5
Mollie - 4.5
Average - 4.5

How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff

Meeting Date: May 12, 2006

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 3.5
Debbie - 3
Donna - 4
Elizabeth - 3
Jackie - 3.5
Jim - 4.5
Judy - 5
Lila - 3
Lynn -3
Mollie - 2.5
Todd - 3
Average - 3.5

The March by E.L. Doctorow

Meeting Date: April 14, 2006

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 3.5
Debbie - 2
Jim - 2.5
Judy - 2
Lynn - 2.5
Average - 2.5

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Meeting Date: March 10, 2006

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4.5
Jim - 3.5
Judy - 4
Lila - 4
Lynn - 3
Mollie - 3
Average - 3.5

West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary

Meeting Date: February 10, 2006

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 4
Jim - 3.5
Judy - 4
Mollie - 3
Average - 3.5

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Meeting Date: October 14, 2005

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 4.5
Jim - 4
Judy - 4.5
Lila - 4
Lynn - 4
Mollie - 4.5
Average - 4

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

Meeting Date: September 9, 2005

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 4
Donna - 3.5
Jim - 4
Lynn - 4
Mollie - 4
Average - 4

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Meeting Date: July 8, 2005

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 3
Debbie - 4
Jim - 3
Lynn - 2.5
Michael - 4.5
Mollie - 5
Average - 3.5

Blink: the Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell

Meeting Date: April 8, 2005

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
We don't have records for how people felt about this one.
Average -

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Meeting Date: March 11, 2005

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4
Jim - 2
Average - 3.5

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

Meeting Date: November 12, 2004

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 5
Donna - 5
Jim - 5
Lynn - 5
Michael -4.5
Average - 5

Life of Pi by Yan Martel

Meeting Date: September 10, 2004

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Jim - 3
Michael - 3.5
Mollie - 3
Average - 3

Bangkok 8 by John Burdett

Meeting Date: May 14, 2004

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 3.5
Donna - 3
Jim - 3
Average - 3

Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons

Meeting Date: March 19, 2004

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4.5
Donna - 5
Jim - 5
Lila - 5
Mollie - 5
Average - 5

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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Meeting Date: May 16, 2003

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Somehow we only have an average for the group in our records.
Average - 4.5

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Meeting Date: April 4, 2003

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Jim - 4
Lila - 5
Lynn - 4
Average - 4.5

The Hours by Michael Cunningham

Meeting Date: March 7, 2003

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 5
Donna - 5
Jim - 5
Lynn - 5
Michael - 5
Average - 5

Wicked - the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire

Meeting Date: January 31, 2003

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Donna - 5
Michael - 4.5
Average - 4.5


Nickel and Dimed: on (not) getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Meeting Date: September 13, 2002

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 4
Donna - 3.5
Jim - 4.5
Lila - 4
Lynn - 4
Mollie - 4
Average - 4


What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: The Loves and Love Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Daniel Mark Epstein

Meeting Date: July 26, 2002

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 2.5
Debbie - 3
Jim - 3
Mollie - 2
Average - 2.5

Comfort and Joy by Jim Grimsley

Meeting Date: June 30, 2002

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 4
Jim - 4
Michael - 4
Average - 4

Ordinary Life by Elizabeth Berg

Meeting Date: May 17, 2002

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Jim - 4
Mollie - 3
Average - 3.5

This meeting also featured the chocolate covered almonds that Lila brought us from France. They received an unprecedented 10 star review from the group.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

Meeting Date: April 12, 2002

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Mollie - 4
Average - 4

The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier

Meeting Date: April 12, 2002

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 3.5
Jim - 2
Lila - 4
Lynn - 3 (She specified three Prozacs for this one, not three stars.)
Michael - 3
Average - 3


Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden

Meeting Date: March 8, 2002

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 3
Debbie - 3
Jim - 3
Lila - 3
Lynn - 3
Average - 3

The Dubliners by James Joyce

Meeting Date: February 1, 2002

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4
Debbie - 4
Jim - 4
Lila - 2.5
Lynn - 3
Mollie - 5
Average - 4

Diary of an Hour by Kate Chopin

Meeting Date: December 14, 2001

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 5
Debbie - 5
Jim - 5
Lila - 5
Lynn - 5
Michael - 5
Mollie - 5
Average - 5

The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil

Meeting Date: November 2, 2001

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 1
Jim - .5
Lila - 1
Lynn - 0
Michael - 1
Mollie - 4
Average - 1

The Red Tent by Anita Diamant

Meeting Date: August 24, 2001

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 4
Jim - 2.5
Lila - 5
Lynn - 3.5
Mollie - 3.5
Average - 3.5

Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Meeting Date: June 29, 2001

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 5
Debbie - 4
Jim - 4
Lila - 5
Lynn - 4.5
Michael - 4.5
Mollie - 3.5
Average - 4.5

The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King

Meeting Date: May 11, 2001

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Jim - 5
Average - 5

The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin

Meeting Date: April 16, 2001

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 3.5
Debbie - 4
Jim - 4.5
Lynn - 3.5
Michael - 3.5
Mollie - 3.5
Average - 3.5


The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri

Meeting Date: March 9, 2001

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 2
Debbie - 1.5
Jim - 3.5
Lila - 2
Lynn - 2
Mollie - 2.5
Average - 2

Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice

Meeting Date: February 16, 2001

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
All we have on file for this title is a group average
Average - 3.5


Shopgirl by Steve Martin

Meeting Date: January 9, 2001

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Cyndy - 3.5
Debbie - 3
Jim - 3.5
Mollie - 3
Average - 3.5

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Meeting Date: December 5, 2000

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4
Cyndy - 3.5
Debbie - 3
Jim - 4.5
Lynn - 3.5
Mollie - 3
Average - 3.5

Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min

Meeting Date: October 3, 2000

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Jim - 3
Average - 3

Waiting by Ha Jin

Meeting Date: September 5, 2000

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 3.5
Jim - 4
Lila - 4
Lynn - 3.5
Mollie - 5
Average - 4

Lost Geography by Charlotte Bacon

Meeting Date: August 1, 2000

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Cyndy - 4.5
Jim - 2.5
Lynn - 3.5
Mollie - 4.5
Average - 4

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Meeting Date: June 13, 2000

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 5
Cyndy - 5
Debbie - 5
Jim - 5
Lila - 5
Lynn - 5
Mollie - 4.5
Wesley - 5
Average - 5

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Meeting Date: May 2, 2000

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4
Cyndy - 5
Debbie - 5
Jim - 4.5
Lila - 4
Lynn - 4
Mollie - 5
Wesley - 5
Average - 4.5

Titles from the Invisible Life series by E. Lynn Harris

Meeting Date: March 7, 2000

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 1
Jim - 4
Lila - 4
Lynn - .5
Average - 2.5

Three Women by Marge Piercy

Meeting Date: January 4, 2000

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 3.5
Cyndy - 4
Jim - 3
Lila - 4
Lynn - 3.5
Average - 3.5

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Meeting Date: November 2, 1999

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Cyndy - 5
Debbie - 5
Jim - 4.5
Lila - 4.5
Lynn - 5
Average - 5

Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Meeting Date: September 2, 1999

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 5
Cyndy - 4.5
Debbie - 5
Jim - 5
Lila - 5
Lynn - 5
Rosemarie - 4.5
Average - 5

Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown

Meeting Date: May 1, 1999

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Jim - 2
Lila - 2.5
Lynn - 2
Average - 2

Holes by Louis Sachar

Meeting Date: April 20, 1999

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4
Cyndy - 4
Jim - 5
Lila - 5
Lynn - 5
Rosemarie - 4.5
Average - 4.5

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Meeting Date: January 22, 1999

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Cyndy - .5
Debbie - 1
Lila - 0
Rosemarie - 0
Average - 0.5

Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress

Meeting Date: December 8, 1998

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 3.5
Debbie - 3.5
Jim - 3
Lila - 2.5
Rosemarie - 3.5
Average - 3

Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison

Meeting Date: November 17, 1998

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 3
Debbie - 3.5
Jim - 2
Lila - 2.5
Lynn - 2.5
Rosemarie - 2
Average - 2.5

Bad Seed by William March

Meeting Date: October 13, 1998

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Cyndy - 3
Debbie - 3
Jim - 3
Lynn - 3
Average - 3

Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell

Meeting Date: September 15, 1998

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Cyndy - 4
Debbie - 4
Jim - 4
Lynn - 4
Rosemarie - 4.5
Average - 4

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Meeting Date: August 11, 1998

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4.5
Cyndy - 3.5
Debbie - 3.5
Jim - 4
Lila - 3
Lynn - 3
Rosemarie - 2.5
Average - 3.5

Children of Men by P.D. James

Meeting Date: July 7, 1998

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Cyndy - 3
Debbie - 3.5
Jim - 3
Lila - 3
Lynn - 3.5
Rosemarie - 3.5
Average - 3

Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams

Meeting Date: June 2, 1998

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Cyndy - 2.5
Debbie - 4
Jim - 5
Lila - 3
Lynn - 4
Rosemarie - 4
Average - 3.5

Top Dog by J. David Pincus

Meeting Date: May 12, 1998

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Cyndy - 3.5
Debbie - 3
Jim - 3.5
Lynn - 3.5
Rosemarie - 3
Average - 3.5

Monday, December 14, 2009

What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage

Meeting Date: May 12, 1998

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4
Cyndy - 5
Debbie - 4
Jim - 3.5
Lila - 5
Lynn - 4
Rosemarie - 5
Average - 4.5

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Meeting Date: March 3, 1998

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 3.5
Jim - 3
Rosemarie - 4
Average - 3.5

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

Meeting Date: February 3, 1998

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4.5
Cyndy - 4
Debbie - 4
Jim - 3.5
Lila - 4.5
Lynn - 3.5
Michael - 4
Rosemarie - 4.5
Average - 4

What Girls Learn by by Karin Cook

Meeting Date: January 6, 1998

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4
Jim - 3
Lila - 4
Rosemarie - 2.5
Average - 3

Into Thin Air by John Krakauer

Meeting Date: December 2, 1997

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Cyndy - 5
Debbie - 5
Jim - 3.5
Lila - 5
Lynn - 5
Rosemarie - 5
Average - 5

Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

Meeting Date: November 4, 1997

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4.5
Cyndy - 4.5
Debbie - 4.5
Jim - 4.5
Lynn - 4.5
Rosemarie - 4.5
Average - 4.5

House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Meeting Date: Before November 1997

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 3.5
Cyndy - 3.5
Debbie - 3.5
Jim - 3.5
Lila - 3.5
Lynn - 3.5
Average - 3.5

The Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia

Meeting Date: Before November 1997

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Cyndy - 3
Debbie - 2
Jim - 3.5
Michael - 2
Rosemarie - 2
Average - 2.5

White Crosses by Larry Watson

Meeting Date: Before November 1997

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4
Debbie - 3
Jim - 2
Lila - 3
Lynn - 3
Michael - 4
Average - 3

Earliest records

Our records from the time our group began are a little sketchy. In late November, 1997, we started recording individual members' ratings of the books we read. Before that, all we have is a list of titles. Here it is:

  • Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White
  • Wolf Whistle by Louis Nordan
  • Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Life After Life by Raymond A. Moody
  • Dance of a Fallen Monk by George Fowler
  • The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
  • Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (May 97)
  • A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill (Apr. 97)
  • The Middle Heart by Bette Bao Lord (Feb 97)
  • City of Darkness, City of Light by Marge Piercy (Jan. 97)
  • Deerskin by Robin McKinley
  • Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
  • Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
  • Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
  • Boy Called Phyllis by Frank DeCaro
  • Redeye by Clyde Edgerton
  • Range of Motion by Elizabeth Berg
  • The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga
  • She and I by Eileen Lottman
  • Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
  • Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
  • Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore
  • Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
  • Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
  • Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Grass Dancer by Susan Power

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Full List of Titles

All of the titles we have read (or at least all that we can remember) are listed here.


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  • Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
  • Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
  • House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  • The Aguero Sisters by Cristina Garcia
  • White Crosses by Larry Watson
  • Mama Makes Up Her Mind by Bailey White
  • Wolf Whistle by Louis Nordan
  • Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Life After Life by Raymond A. Moody
  • Dance of a Fallen Monk by George Fowler
  • The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
  • Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (May 97)
  • A Drinking Life by Pete Hamill (Apr. 97)
  • The Middle Heart by Bette Bao Lord (Feb 97)
  • City of Darkness, City of Light by Marge Piercy (Jan. 97)
  • Deerskin by Robin McKinley
  • Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
  • Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
  • Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
  • Boy Called Phyllis by Frank DeCaro
  • Redeye by Clyde Edgerton
  • Range of Motion by Elizabeth Berg
  • The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga
  • She and I by Eileen Lottman
  • Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy
  • Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
  • Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore
  • Two Old Women by Velma Wallis
  • Sights Unseen by Kaye Gibbons
  • Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Grass Dancer by Susan Power

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Saturday, December 12, 2009

Converting to a blog

I'm moving to convert our content to a Blogger blog. It should be easier to maintain our information this way.