Monday, August 24, 2009

October Book Selection - VOTE NOW!

These are our book selections (provided by Wendy L.) for the month of October. You'll have until Monday, August 31st to vote for the book of your choice. I'll follow up with an email to announce the winner.


Sisters, Ink by Rebeca Seitz
(Please ignore the "Click to look inside"... it's not gonna happen.)

Home. A grown woman should know where that is, right? So why is attorney Tandy Sinclair so confused? Is home in Orlando, with her dream job and the only "man" in her life, a Basset hound? Or is it in sleepy Stars Hill, Tennessee, with Daddy, Momma's grave, and three crazy, lovable sisters? Forced into a leave of absence from her job, Tandy heads for Tennessee to find answers. But Stars Hill isn't as sleepy as she remembers. Daddy's got a new "friend", and the sisters have more going on than she ever imagined. And the high school flame she thought was off playing soldier? Think again. Now Tandy's more confused than ever and facing some hard decisions. Decisions that will lead her to a true understanding of home - and what it means to live a dream.


Always Looking Up, by Michael J. Fox

"The last ten years, which is really the stuff of this book, began with such a loss: my retirement from Spin City. I found myself struggling with a strange new dynamic: the shifting of public and private personas. I had been Mike the actor, then Mike the actor with PD. Now was I just Mike with PD? Parkinson's had consumed my career and, in a sense, had become my career. But where did all of this leave Me? I had to build a new life when I was already pretty happy with the old one.."

Always Looking Up is a memoir of this last decade, told through the critical themes of Michael's life: work, politics, faith, and family. The book is a journey of self-discovery and reinvention, and a testament to the consolations that protect him from the ravages of Parkinson's. With the humor and wit that captivated fans of his first book, Lucky Man, Michael describes how he became a happier, more satisfied person by recognizing the gifts of everyday life.


The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who involuntarily travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love.





Remember, this vote is for the month of October so you have plenty of time to find the book. You have one week, until Monday, August 31st to vote. Until then, you should be reading The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, which is our book for September.

Friday, August 21, 2009

August "Picking Party"

It's a new bookclub year and we're tryin' out some new ideas. We met last night for our annual "picking party", although it wasn't just books we were picking. Instead we were picking months. Let me explain.... people got to volunteer (or not) to be responsible for book selections for a given month. Here's how it works:
  1. Two months prior to the month you signed up for, you select three books that seem of interest to you. You have total freedom in your book selection... it's your month. You can choose books from one specific genre of your choice OR three books in totally different genres. You can pick books that you've read or simply ones that you've been wanting to.
  2. I post the books on the blog, along with a brief synopsis and picture.
  3. Everyone gets a week to vote.
  4. Two months later, we meet and talk about the book.

This is an opportunity for those that would like a say in the book selection, to guarantee to have one. It also gives us a chance to read more current books, if that's what we're interested in... the votes will speak for themselves!

Any questions? Pose it in the comments section... you're probably not the only one confused!

Stay tuned... I'll be posting October's book selections up for vote this weekend!