The Little Book Club (aka Lynn's Book Club): July 30 is the new August

Thursday, July 24, 2014

July 30 is the new August

Dear Bookclub,
Just a big head's up that next Wednesday, July 30 is our August Bookclub meeting. Terry F. has chosen "Bellamy's" on Grand in Escondido for our lunch at noon:

http://www.bellamysdining.com/

Looks great!

We will be discussing "A Burnable Book" by Bruce Holsinger. Hopefully you have started it/finished it and know that the following humor would never be so aptly direct in Holsinger's terms:

Happy Reading!
LK

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2024 Selections

January 9 Terry "The Art Thief" Michael Finkel
February 6 Lynn "The River We Remember" William Kent Krueger
March 5 Val "Stoned" Aja Raden
April 1 Terrie "Absolution" Alice McDermott
May 7 Wanda "The Wren, The Wren" Anne Enright
June 4 Trudy "The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post" Allison Pataki
July 2 Terry "The Women" Kristen Hannah
August 6 Ginger "The Wager" David Grann
September 3 Lynn "After Annie" Anna Quindlen
October 8 Val "James" Percival Everett
November (October 29) Terrie "The Frozen River" Ariel Lawhon
December Wanda "The North Woods" Daniel Mason

2023 Selections

January 3 Lynn "Horse" Geraldine Brooks
February 6 Veranda "Mercury Pictures Presents" Anthony Marra
March 15 Val "Our Missing Hearts" Celeste Ng
April 18 Terrie "Shrines of Gaiety" Kate Atkinson
May 9 Wanda "The Beauty of Dusk" Frank Bruni
June 6 Trudy "Lessons" Ian McEwan
July 11 Terry "Hello Beautiful" Ann Napolitano
August 15 Lynn "West with Giraffes" Lynda Rutledge
September 5 Val "Tom Lake" Ann Patchett
October 3 Terrie "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" Gabrielle Zevin
November 7 Wanda "Blind Man's Bluff" Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew
December Trudy "Festive Spirits" Kate Atkinson

2022 Selections

January 5(z) Trudy "The Doctors Blackwell" Janice P. Nimura
February 9 Lynn "Beautiful Country" Qian Julie Wang
March 23 Val "The Taking of Jemima Boone: The True Story of the Kidnap and Rescue that Shaped America" Matthew Pearl
April 6 Terrie "The Mountains Sing" Nguyen PhanQue Mai
May 3 Wanda "The Lincoln Highway" Amor Towles
June 7 Lynn "The Night Watchman" Louise Erdrich
July 5 Trudy "Better to Have Gone" Akash Kapur
August(7/26) Terry "On a Night of a Thousand Stars" Andrea Yaryura Clark
September 6 Val "The Happiest Girl in the World" Alena Dillon
October 6 Terrie "A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth" Daniel Mason
November Wanda "The Invisible Kingdom" Meghan O'Rourke
December "Madhouse at the End of the Earth" Julian Sanction

2021 Selections

January 5 Terry "Things We Cannot Say" Kelly Rimmer
Febnruary 2 Val "A Woman is No Man" Etaf Rum
March 2 Terrie "Hamnet" Maggie O'Farrell
April 6 Ginger "The Other Americans" Laila Lalami
May 25 Wanda "Hidden Valley Road" Robert Kolker
July 6 Trudy ""The Madness of Crowds" Douglas Murray
August 4 Lynn "The Midnight Library" Matt Haig
September 7 Val "Good Neighbors" Sara Langan
October 5 Terrie "The Beekeeper of Aleppo" Christy Lefteri
November 17 Wanda "Empire of Pain" Patrick Radden Keefe
December 1 Terry "Great Circle" Maggie Shipstead

2020 Selections

January 7 "The Water Dancer" Ta-Nehisi Coates (TF)
January 28 "Red at the Bone" Jacqueline Woodson (VQ)
March 3 "In Extremis" Lindsey Hilsum (TG)
April 7 "Reading with Patrick" Michelle Kuo(LGK)
May 5 "American Dirt" Jeanine Cummins (W)
June 2 "The Wives of Los Alamos" Tarashea Nesbit(VQ)
July 7 "The Gifted School" Bruce Holsinger (TF)
August "Mr. Emerson's Wife" Amy Belding Brown (TVD)
September "The Yellow House" Sara M. Broom (TG)
October "The Tangled Tree" David Quammen (LGK)
November "Rodham" Curtis Sittenfeld (W)
December "You Better Not Cry" Augusten Burroughs (TVD)

2019 Selections

January 4 "Educated:A Memoir" Tara Westover (TF) Barrel Room
February 6 "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher" Timothy Egan(TVD) Piacere Mia
March 6 "Unsheltered" Barbara Kingsolver (TG) Vintanna
April 3 "The Library" Susan Orlean(LK)
May 1 "Being Mortal" Atul Gawande(W) Bernardo Winery
June 5 "A Place for Us" Fatima Farheen Mizra (VQ)
July 3 "The Immortalists" Chloe Benjamin (TF)
July 31 "Behold the Dreamers" Imbolo Mbue (LGK)
September 4 "Peggy Guggenheim" Francine Prose(TG)
October 2 "Thomas and Beal in the Midi" Christopher Tilghman (TVD)
November 6 "Lincoln in the Bardo" George Saunders(W)
December "Mr. Dickens and His Carol" Samantha Silva (VQ)

2018 Selections

January 10 "The Rent Collector" Camron Wright (W)
February 9 "Before We Were Yours" Lisa Wingate (TF)
March 7 "To The Bright Edge of the World" Eowyn Ivey (LK)
April 4 "Little Fires Everywhere" Celeste Ng (VQ)
May 24 "As Bright As Heaven" Sue Meissner (Lori Kimball's)
June 6 "The Baker's Daughter" Sarah McCoy(TG)
July summer pause
August 8 "The Power" Naomi Alderman (W)
September (August 29)""Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" David Grann (LK)
October "Sing, Unburied, Sing" Jesmyn Ward (TVD)
November "The Atlas of Forgotten Places" Jenny D. Wright (VQ)
December "The Great Alone" Kristen Hannah(TG)

2017 Selections

January 11 Veranda (WI) "When the Killing's Done" T.C. Boyle
February 8 (TF) "Commonwealth" by Ann Patchett
March 8 Veranda (LK) "Last Bus to Wisdom: A Novel" by Ivan Doig
April 5 (TG) "Foreign Affairs" Alison Lurie
May 3 (LK) "The Gene" Siddhartha Mukherjee
June (VQ) "32 Yolks" Eric Ripert
July (WI) "The Hillbilly Elegy" J. D. Vance
August (TF) "Florence Gordon" Brian Morton
September (TVD) "History of Wolves" Emily Fridlund
October (TG) "American Philosophy" John Kaag
November 1 Veranda (VQ) "The Last Days of Night" Graham Moore
December (TVD) "Hero of the Empire" Candice Millard

2016 Selections

January 6 (W)"Among the Ten Thousand Things" by Julie Pierpont (Cork & Craft)
February (1/27) (LK) "Orhan's Inheritance" by Aline Ohanesian
March (2/24) (TF) "Ordinary Grace" by William Kent Krueger
April 6 (VQ) "Circling the Sun" by Paula McClain
May 4 (TG) "The Door" by Magda Szabo
June 1 (TVD) "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena" by Anthony Marra
July - June 29 (W) "On the Move" by Oliver Sacks
August 8/26 (TF) "Hold Still" by Sally Mann
September 7 (LK) "Barkskins" by Annie Proulx
October 9/28 (TG) "Heat and Light" by Jennifer Haigh (Veranda)
November 9 (VQ) "Mademoisellle Chanel" by C.W. Gortner (Le Bistro de Louisa)
December 6 (Dana Point)"The Birds of the Air" by Alice Thomas Ellis

2015 Calendar

January 9 (W) "Home Leave" by Brittani Sonnenberg (The Barrel Room)
February 4 (TG) "The Remarkable Courtship of General Tom Thumb" by Nicholas Rinaldi (BernardO's)
March 4 (TF) "Lila" by Marilynne Robinson(Brothers Provisions)
April 1 (VQ) "Some Luck" by Jane Smiley (French Market Grill)
May 6 (LK) "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr at Lynn's
June 3(TVD) "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
July 8 (W) "Boy, Snow, Bird" by Helen Oyeyemi
August 12 (LK) "The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry" by Gabrielle Zevin
September 9 (TF) "Dead Wake" by Erik Larson
October 7 (VQ) "Euphoria" by Lily King
November 4 (TG) "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace" by Jeff Hobbs
December 2 (TVD) "A Spool of Blue Thread" by Anne Tyler

2014 Calendar

January 8 (L) Brothers Provisions / "Defending Jacob" by William Landay
February 5 (Y) Cafe Chloe / "Beautiful Ruins" by Jess Walter
March 5 (TF) BernardO's "We are Water" by Wally Lamb
April 9 (TG) Terrie G's "Me Before You" by JoJo Moyes
May 7 (L) The Prado "The Aviator's Wife" by Melanie Benjamin
June 4 (TVD) The Veranda "My Age of Anxiety" by Scott Stossel
July 2 The Bernardo Winery (W) "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt
July 30 Bellamy's (TF) "A Burnable Book" by Bruce Holsinger
September 3 The Barrel Room(VQ) "The Boys in the Boat" by Daniel James Brown
October 1 BernardO's (TG) "Tell the Wolves I'm Home" by Carol Rifka Brunt
November 19 The Cork and Craft (L) "We the Eaters" by Ellen Gustafson
December 3 (TVD) "We are Called to Rise" by Laura McBride

2013 Calendar

January 29 Capri Blu (L) / “Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore” by Robin Sloan
February 27 Herringbone (TG) / “Flight Behavior” by Barbara Kingsolver
March 18 (TF) "The Round House" by Louise Erdrich
April 16 Dolce (Y)/ "She Matters" by Susan Sonnenberg
May 9 Maderas (W)/ "Battleborn" by Claire Vaye Watkins
June/July 10 Hacienda Del Vega (L/TD) / ""Seating Arrangements" by Maggie Shipstead/ "Life After Life" by Kate Atkinson
August 23 Yanni's (Y) / "Suspect" by Robert Crais
September 17 (TF) / "All My Restless Life to Live" by Dee Del Tarsio
October 2 (TG) / "Big Brother" by Lionel Shriver
November 12 The Veranda (W) / "Reading Jackie" by William Kuhn
December 4 Hotel Del Coronado (TD) / "The Lowlands" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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Thursday, July 24, 2014

July 30 is the new August

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