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valenciana · Dooney & Bourke

ST book club?

laken1 · Hermes

I feel like I can't say anything because I ducked out of Pride & Prejudice

tara t · Marc Jacobs

my intentions are good. but i never follow thru. but i'll try to do it again, and actually read in the set time frame.

member · Hermes

I know it was mentioned, but it never started back up again. I'd definitely be game. Valencia, maybe you should take the reins w/this one!

Eurodaisy · Dooney & Bourke

I'd be interested, too!

rocky · Coach

Oh I didn't know there was already one. I was thinking of proposing it. Great idea, count me in!

valenciana · Dooney & Bourke

shopchicago33 wrote:

Valencia, maybe you should take the reins w/this one!

well alrighty...i'm not usually one to lead and organize activies though but i take your challenge!

what if we just agreed to read a book and then come back and chat when we're done? (instead of read 2 chapters, chat, next week - read 2 more chapters, chat) then it would be a little more flexible? i mean, we've all got lots going on, no need to make it like a class!

does anyone have book suggestions? i'll throw a few out there.

i just started reading The Good Earth, a classic i never got around to before. there are actually lots of classics i have on my list to tackle, so i'd be up for most in that category. i know a lot of you have read Love in the Time of Cholera and/or 100 Years of Solitude but i've read neither...anyone else?

has everyone already read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time? The Kite Runner? Middlesex? How about Atonement? The Red Tent? alright, there's some ideas, let me know if anything sounds interesting or reminds you of something different.

p.s. i'd be up for non-fiction too.

laken1 · Hermes

I vote atonement but only because it's on my to-be-read bookshelf.

Mandy · Kate Spade

i've read curious incident and middlesex (both great)

i really want to read kite runner so i would vote for that.

i also propose blindness by jose saramago.

relrel · Marc Jacobs

id like to join too...just let me know what book and ill read it!

member · Hermes

I would love to read Kite Runner - that's been on my list. I'd also be ok w/reading Middlesex.

halleybird · Hermes

I vote Atonement b/c it's on my list too. I have read Kite Runner, Red Tent & Middlesex though, and all are very good. Either way, I'd prefer fiction since my IRL book club is like 90% nonfic.

Also, would it be helpful to have a "finish by" date so the thread doesn't bump up and down?

rocky · Coach

not that this book has to be read first, but I am intrigued by Bret Easton Ellis because of American Psycho, and by In Cold Blood from Capote's release. It would be neat to get to read a book by the former and the latter sometime

RyanJ · Coach

rocky wrote:

not that this book has to be read first, but I am intrigued by Bret Easton Ellis because of American Psycho, and by In Cold Blood from Capote's release. It would be neat to get to read a book by the former and the latter sometime

Two of my favorite books!

Tell me the book and I will read it. Can't wait.

blubirde · Chanel

I'm good with anything. I liked the last bookclub we did, even though we all kind of sagged towards the end...

I'm in for any book but Atonement sounds interesting.

Ally S · Kate Spade

valenciana wrote:

has everyone already read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time? The Kite Runner? Middlesex? How about Atonement? The Red Tent? alright, there's some ideas, let me know if anything sounds interesting or reminds you of something different. p.s. i'd be up for non-fiction too.

The Curious Incident of the Dog At Night was amazing, as was Kite Runner and Atonement. So was Middlesex.

Has anyone read "The Color of Water" by James McBride or "A Great and Terrible Beauty" by Libby Bray?

I have used them both in recent book groups and they are wonderful for discussing.

mikacat · Coach

count me in