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
Sunday, December 20, 2009
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 -
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
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
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
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
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
Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4.5
Donna - 5
Jim - 5
Lila - 5
Mollie - 5
Average - 5
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Cyndy - 5
Debbie - 5
Jim - 3.5
Lila - 5
Lynn - 5
Rosemarie - 5
Average - 5
Labels:
*5.0 stars,
1997 and before,
Cyndy,
Debbie,
Jim,
Lila,
Lynn,
Rosemarie
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
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
Labels:
*4.5 stars,
1997 and before,
Audra,
Cyndy,
Debbie,
Jim,
Lynn,
Rosemarie
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
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
Labels:
*3.5 stars,
1997 and before,
Audra,
Cyndy,
Debbie,
Jim,
Lila,
Lynn
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
Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Cyndy - 3
Debbie - 2
Jim - 3.5
Michael - 2
Rosemarie - 2
Average - 2.5
Labels:
*2.5 stars,
1997 and before,
Cyndy,
Debbie,
Jim,
Michael,
Rosemarie
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
Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4
Debbie - 3
Jim - 2
Lila - 3
Lynn - 3
Michael - 4
Average - 3
Labels:
*3.0 stars,
1997 and before,
Audra,
Debbie,
Jim,
Lila,
Lynn,
Michael
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
Full List of Titles
All of the titles we have read (or at least all that we can remember) are listed here.
2013
2010
2009
2013
- Dear Life by Alice Munro
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce
- Packing for Mars by Mary Roach
- The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright
- A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Hope: a Tragedy by Shalom Auslander
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
- The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman
- Children's and Young Adult award titles for 2011
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin
- Room by Emma Donoghue
2010
- One Day by David Nicholls
- The Cradle by Patrick Somerville
- Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
- Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
- Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
- Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
2009
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- Annie's Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffner and Ann Burrows
- The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski
- Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama
- Free-Range Chickens by Simon Rich
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
- People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
- Boomsday by Christopher Buckley
- Run by Ann Pratchett
- On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
- Case Histories by Kate Atkinson
- Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne
- What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman
- Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Borat (the movie)
- Digging to America by Ann Tyler
- Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
- Everyman by Philip Roth
- Dry: a Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
- How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
- The March by E. L. Doctorow
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- West of Kabul, East of New York by Tamim Ansary
- The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Blink: the Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
- My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
- Life of Pi by Yan Martel
- Bangkok 8 by John Burdett
- Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
- Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- Wicked: the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
- Nickel and Dimed: on (not) Getting by in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
- What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: the Loves and Love Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Daniel Mark Epstein
- Comfort and Joy by Jim Grimsley
- Ordinary Life by Elizabeth Berg
- Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
- The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier
- Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden
- The Dubliners by James Joyce
- Diary of an Hour by Kate Chopin
- The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil
- The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
- The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
- The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
- Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
- Shopgirl by Steve Martin
- The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
- Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
- Waiting by Ha Jin
- Lost Geography by Charlotte Bacon
- Monster by Walter Dean Myers
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
- Titles from the Invisible Life series by E. Lynn Harris
- Three Women by Marge Piercy
- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
- Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
- Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown
- Holes by Louis Sachar
- Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
- Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress
- Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison
- Bad Seed by William March
- Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
- Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
- Children of Men by P. D. James
- Four Letters of Love by Niall Williams
- Top Dog by J. David Pincus
- What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage
- God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
- What Girls Learn by Karin Cook
- 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
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.
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