End of 2011: Decisions

We scheduled meetings for 2012 as all on the third Sunday. So meetings are January 15, February 19, March 18, April 15, May 20, June 17, July 15, August 19, September 16, October 21, November 18, December 16. I'm sure if I got some of these wrong somebody will help us all out with dates.

And place: Cathy is looking into reserving one of the Barnes and Noble living room areas for future meetings. She will let us know -- if we use these spaces we will need to meed at 3:30 (B&N closes at 5) but we can get coffee, yummy deserts, next month's books, etc.

For January, bring copies of year-end best book lists. We will pick new books then.

We need to talk about Kevin

I am about a third of the way through this, but can recommend for anybody interested the book Columbine, by Dave Cullen.

And I just found a trailer online for this.

South of Broad

Great discussion about South of Broad. For those new to Conroy, we recommend The water is wide or Prince of Tides for a more focused version of Conroy.

Corbett was a good place to meet, and with luck, we will have a new home for mid-september. will keep you all posted.

Notes from exploding mangos

Next meeting is July 17.

Books we added to the list for future book clubs:
Moth Smoke, Mohsin Hamid
The 19th Wife, David Ebershoff

Another book recommendation:
100 Names for Love: Diane Ackerman

And a movie recommendation:
Intermission, with Colin Farrell

Recommended books from May 22

• Swimming Lessons, Rohington Mistry
• The Yacoubian Building, Alaa Al Aswany
• The Berlin Station, David Downing
• My life as an experiment, A.J. Jacobs
• 40 Rules of Love
• Angels and Insects, A.S. Byatt

Books we should have read

This month's book is open, and the prompt is read a book you should have read. Here is a partial list, from what I have heard.

• Catcher in the Rye (Cultural references)
• Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux (Major author)
  
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Major author)
• A Tale of Two Cities (Residual guilt)
• Death Comes for the Archbishop (Everybody who lives in New Mexico should)
  
• Pride and Prejudice (Cultural references, major author)
• Lord of the Flies (Cultural references)
• Night (Overcome fear of war novels)
  

Kudos!

Kudos to the 4 who completed The way we live now. You inspired me to complete it.

Next meeting is March 20.

Next meeting, February 20: The Way We Live Now

Also, we picked more books:

Lioner Schriver: We need to talk about Kevin
The immortal life Henrietta Lacks
Summer: True Grit
Golden Gate: Seth
East of Eden: Steinbeck
Freedom: Franzen
The invention of Curried Sausage Uwe Timm
Lotus Eaters with Len Gambrel as guest
Cleopatra: Schiff

I will add them to the list.

And the March meeting will be on the 20th.

And finally, a link to 100 best NM books, for future discussion