BIC book club!

[prettyinpa]

Some of us here have expressed an interest in a book club, myself, @mermadelove, @LCResz, @ZombieMetroAnt, @Mcakes. If you'd be interested in joining, reply below. My initial thought was to mail the books around but if it means that some people can't participate, then I'm all for dropping that requirement. I'd love this to be a place where we nominate our favorite book and others can read it and comment. Something fun for the new year!  ETA: the booklist:

1. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (16)
1. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (16)
3. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (13)
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (11)
4. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (11)
4. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie (11)
7. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (10)
7. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (10)
7. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (10) Discussion begins 8-13.
7. The Wedding Dress by Rachel Hauck (10) Discussion begin 9-2.
11. The Fault in our Stars by John Green (9) Time to discuss 9-26
11. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (9) Now discussing below.
11. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (9)
11. What Happened by Hilary Clinton (9) Now discussing below.
11. Fall of Giants by Ken Follett (9) Start reading now.
11. The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Ashford (9)
11. milk and honey by Rupi Kaur (9)
18. A Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (8)
18. Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty (8)
18. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (8)
18. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (8)
18. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (8)
18. Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (8)
18. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (8)
18. The Paper Magician by Charlie Holmberg (8)
18. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (8)
18. The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo (8)
18. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (8)
18. The White Queen by Phillipa Gregory (8)

Participants in spoiler

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Participants:

PrettyinPA

AlexaSteph

Beadshopgirl

LCResz

Kim888

SoBeautiful

Fatimamummy

ZombieMetroAnt

PalomaFoster

k617

bakeamuffin
Susubee
Skcfan
Lazybeautybeast
SpaceLlama
greeneyedgirl107

Mermadelove
Mcakes
Aaliaa
Serenely
Myinsidevoice
MissPuff
juliehnguyen
lmi82
Knowledgebeauty
Titian06
quspork
darlyndar
KellW
misscg
EuniceO
Elles117
ClassicallyFab
ShiraBT
melanito
Heylady14
ChicagoEngineer
Imightneedthis
PrettyPaint
rachface2921

[quspork]

I would love to join in as well, @prettyinpa! I love books so much, but I kept pushing reading to the back burner for the last two years, so I really want to do better on that this year! 

[Titian06]

@prettyinpa - Count me in.

[Knowledgebeauty]

Some of my favorites:

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

anything by Joshilyn Jackson

anything by Kristin Hannah (most recently the Nightingale and especially Firefly Lane)

The Color of Water - James McBride

Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen

Ape House - Sara Gruen

Liar's Club - Mary Karr (and her other memoirs)
The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls (and other memoirs)
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Short stories by Fitzgerald

Poetry and short stories by Langston Hughes
The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair- Susan Monk Kidd
everything by Jane Austen
Sins of the Seventh Sister - Huston Curtiss
Running with Scissors, Magical Thinking, Possible Side Effects - Augusten Burroughs
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safron Foer
Ishmael, My Ishmael, After Dachau - Daniel Quinn
Harry Potter series - J. K. Rowling

[Tamara76]

@Knowledgebeauty OMG - I love Joshilyn Jackson soooooo much!💗💗💗

[Knowledgebeauty]

Me too! Her stories are so engrossing!

[Knowledgebeauty]

Burying the Honeysuckle Girls - Emily Carpenter

[Knowledgebeauty]

Tuesdays with Morrie and The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

[Knowledgebeauty]

And Tolstoy! Anna Karenina and War and Peace.

[fieldsofclover]

I would be down for some Russian lit, actually.

[prettyinpa]

Wow, @Knowledgebeauty- you must be a great reader, I've never gotten past 20 pages of W&P even in college (thanks, Cliffs Notes).

[Knowledgebeauty]

Anna Karenina is definitely better and I wasn't as thorough with the war scenes, but still a good book. I read it in high school.

[Knowledgebeauty]

I forgot The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and ...And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

[lmi82]

Such a great idea and I'd love to join, @prettyinpa! I've been in such a reading slump this year. I only read one book (Wayfarer by Alexandra Bracken) and that was in back in February. Such a stark contrast to the 40 I read last year. 😞 I'm a fast reader, so I just need to get back into the habit of reading. I think a book club could help with that. 🙂

I have previously joined a few groups on Goodreads and they picked each month's book(s) by first asking for suggestions and then people would vote anonymously for which one(s) they wanted to read for the month. Some of the groups even read multiple books: standalone, new series, continuing series, and theme. I think that would be the best way to pick each month's book. We could also figure out if we'd like to read multiple books types, too. Just a thought!

[juliehnguyen]

I would love to join @prettyinpa! 

[MissPuff]

I'm in too!

[Anonymous]

This sounds like so much fun!  Count me in @prettyinpa! 

[Serenely]

I’m interested as well.

[Aaliaa]

I'm in @prettyinpa! I am just tucking into bed about to start 'A Gentlemen in Moscow' by Amor Towels, I've heard its great. I'd personally prefer to be able to source the books from my local library as shipping books each time could add up. 

[Mcakes]

I'm in! As soon as @ZombieMetroAnt suggested it I was in LOL 😄 

I love hardcover books so I'll be doing this for myself and my collection. If anyone else is interested in writing notes in the book then swapping afterwards as a memento just let me know 😉 I love doing that! 

I'm already a part of another book club so I will selfishly be nominating books I'm already reading 😛 

[ZombieMetroAnt]

YAY @Mcakes   

[greeneyedgirl107]

@prettyinpa I'm interested in a book club!  I'd participate as long as I could get the book from my library, as I gave away my Kindle.  I'm up for reading any sort of book...

I recently saw that Sarah Addison Allen wrote a sequel to "Garden Spells."  Has anyone read any of her books?  "Garden Spells" was her first, and my favorite.

It might also be fun to read beauty books.  I purchased Bobbi Brown's "Everything Eyes" recently but only read about 20% of it or so.

Here are some of my five-star favorites from my Good Reads list if anyone is interested (no particular order/genre):

The Kitchen God's Wife: Amy Tan

Midnight Champagne: A. Manette Ansay

Lonesome Dove: Larry McMurtry

The Other Boleyn Girl; The Boleyn Inheritance (quick read): Philippa Gregory 

Princess (Jean P. Sasson)

Summer Sisters: Judy Blume

Tami Hoag: The Alibi Man; Prior Bad Acts; Dark Horse 

Wild Wild West; Asking for Trouble (erotica)

Sandra Brown: Mirror Image; Exclusive; Unspeakable; Where There's Smoke; Fat Tuesday; Charade

Blackbird House; The Red Garden (short stories): Alice Hoffman

Eye of the Needle: Ken Follet

The Stand: Stephen King

Water for Elephants: Sarah Gruen

The Pillars of the Earth: Ken Follet

Night Over Water: Ken Follet

A Prisoner of Birth: Jeffrey Archer

The Chocolate War (YA, but fun!): Robert Cormier

Peyton Place: Grace Metalious 

When Bad Things Happen to Good People: Rabbi Kushner

Dangerous Fortune: Ken Follet

The Good Earth: Pearl S. Buck

The Last Picture Show: Larry McMurtry 

Gone with the Wind: Margaret Mitchell