Friday, October 1, 2010

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

October's Book Choice
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Chosen by Nadine West
TBA When and Where.

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Book Titles!!!!

Here’s a list of book titles, the titles that have a X are the books we read in the previous months.




1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma-Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hossein X

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code Series - Dan Brown X (we read The Lost Symbol).

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel X

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno – Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dicken X

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

101 The Hiding Place - Corrie ten Boom.X

102 Peyton Place - Grace MetaliousX

103 The Importance Of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde X

104 Agent Bishop - Mike Peters X

105 Jacob Have I Loved - Katherine Patterson X

106. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver X

107. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire X

108. Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lighting Thief - Rick Riodan X

109. The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux X

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lighting Thief by Rick Riodan


September's Book Choice
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lighting Thief by Rick Riodan
Choosen by Jamie Wilde West
Meeting held on (To Be Determined) at Jamie's House

Plan: I was thinking for those of you who still want to read Wicked, you are welcome too.  We will still discuss Wicked along with The Lighting Thief and then watch The Lighting Thief DVD at the meeting for fun.


Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire


September's Book Choice
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
Choosen by Jamie Wilde West
Meeting held on (To Be Determined) at Jamie's House

Editor's Note - I'm sorry for the book change. I started reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire and I found the language to be a little rough and graphic, I was afraid of another "Peyton Place" incident. But, for those of you who still would like to read the book this month instead of t...he Percy Jackson book you are more than welcome too and we can still discussing in this month's meeting. I'm still reading Wicked too. We all agreed to read The Lighting Thief at last week's Book Club Meeting.


Thanks for Understanding!!!!



The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver


August's Book Choice

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsoliver
Chosen by RonnaLee Hesford
Meeting held on Monday, August 30, 2010 at 7:00pm at RonnaLee Hesford's House




Agent Bishop by Mike Peters



July's Book Choice

Agent Bishop by Mike Mc Peters
Chosen by Lela Anderson
Meeting held on Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 12:00pm at Lela Anderson's House

****Facebook Discussion****

Jamie Wilde West This book was kind to a trial for me. I usually get the audiobook version....but in this case there wasn't an audiobook version available. With the audiobook I can listen to it while I drive in my long commute to Salt Lake City to work, while cleaning house or doing something. This, I had to sit and read..... it was quite a struggle.


Anyway, I loved the book.....the story how the main character juggled being a FBI Agent and a Mormon Bishop was great. I know of a couple of great men in my ward that work in the Criminal Justice Field and they serve neat callings in the Church. One is a Highway Patrol Man and the other is a Lawyer.......I couldn't help but think what kind of things these great men are exposed to in their field. Always witnessing someone broking the law or in the Lawyer's case defending the criminal's case. In Agent Bishop, the Author also talk about how his wife supported him in being a Bishop and a FBI Agent. With those men in my ward, they are married to some awesome women that I look up to who support their husbands in their career and their callings in the Church.

Life of Pi by Yann Martel


June's Book Choice

Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Chosen by Donna Fischer Wilde
Meeting held on Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 2:00pm Jamie's House (due to illness' and conflict of schedules we had to combine two book club meetings for June).