February 2010 meeting canceled due to impending snow

Heavy snow is predicted to start on Friday afternoon so we have canceled our February meeting. We'll pick it back up on Friday, March 12 with our discussion of Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro. Stay warm, everyone.

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Meeting Date: December 11, 2009

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 5
Debbie - 5
Donna - 5
Jim - 5
Jo - 5
Average - 5

Annie's Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg

Meeting Date: November 13, 2009

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

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

Meeting Date: October 16, 2009

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

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffner and Ann Burows

Meeting Date: April 10, 2009

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4
Donna - 3
Elizabeth - 3
Jim - 3.5
Average - 3 .5

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wrobleswki

Meeting Date: March 13, 2009

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Audra - 4
Jim - 3
Jo - 4.5
Mollie - 5
Todd - 4
Average - 4

Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama

Meeting Date: February 13, 2009

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Elizabeth - 5
J0 - 3
Lila - 3.5
Mollie - 3.5
Todd - 4
Average - 4

Placeholder - November 2008

Free-Range Chickens by Simon Rich

Meeting Date: October 10, 2008

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 4
Donna - 5
Elizabeth - 5
Jackie - 4.5
Jim - 4.5
J0 - 4.5
Judy - 5
Michael - 4.5
Mollie - 4
Todd - 5
Average - 4.5

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Meeting Date: September 12, 2008

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 4.5
Michael - 4
Mollie - 3
Average - 4

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

Meeting Date: May 9, 2008

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 5
Elizabeth - 4
Jackie - 5
Jim - 4.5
Judy - 4.5
Lila - 5
Michael - 4
Todd - 4
Average - 4.5

Boomsday by Christopher Buckley

Meeting Date: March 14, 2008

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Elizabeth - 5
Jackie - 3.5
Jim - 4
Judy - 2
Todd - 3
Average - 3.5

Run by Ann Patchett

Meeting Date: February 8, 2008

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

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Meeting Date: November 9, 2007

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

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Meeting Date: September 14, 2007

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 4.5
Donna - 4
Judy - 5
Lila - 4.5
Michael - 4
Mollie - 4.5
Todd - 3.5
Average - 4.5

Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne

Meeting Date: July 13, 2007

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Elizabeth - 2
Jim - 3.5
Lynn - 3.5
Michael - 3.5
Mollie - 4
Todd - 2.5
Average - 3

What the Dead Know by Laura Lippman

Meeting Date: June 8, 2007

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 3
Donna - 3
Jackie - 3.5
Mollie - 2
Average - 3

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Meeting Date: May 11, 2007

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 4
Donna - 4.5
Elizabeth - 5
Jackie - 4.5
Jim - 4
Judy - 5
Mollie - 4
Todd - 5
Average - 4.5

The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

Meeting Date: March 9, 2007

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

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Meeting Date: February 7, 2007

Member Ratings (1-5, 5 is best)
Debbie - 3
Donna - 4
Elizabeth - 4
Judy - 4
Lila - 4
Todd - 5
Average - 4

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