ANA Book Club?

[leapyrtwins]

Soundy -

Lori was just telling Kaybo and me that The Art of Racing in the Rain is a great book.

Added it to my wish list at Amazon.com

Jan

[Kaybo]

Lori was looking for her RUM - guess that is where it went!! 

K   

[Soundy]

I hear the song Way Hey and Up she Rises playing threw my head ...

mostly the line What do you do with a drunken sailor 


The Art Of Racing in The Rain was good ... sad too but good ...

[saralynn143]

Ha! I just figured out a way around the long wait list for The Help at our library (I am currently #16). We belong to a consortium of lending libraries, and one of them has a copy available, so I requested it, and should have it within a week.

I am picking up Catching Fire tomorrow.

Sara

P.S. Any more comments on The Gift of Rain? If not, should we go ahead and set a discussion date for The Hunger Games?

P.P.S. Where is Steve?

[cindyj]

P.S. Any more comments on The Gift of Rain? If not, should we go ahead and set a discussion date for The Hunger Games?

P.P.S. Where is Steve?

Do miss you and your great insight, and ability to put that insight into words for us, Steve!

Cindy

[Keri]

i'm way behind on here too.
ok, so what's next? Help or Hunger? and if it's hunger, that's in a series of 3....are we doing all 3?
i'll try to catch up too. it's helps when i'm traveling. last time i read so much of 'rain' while standing in line in NYC and sitting on a bus with a bunch of high school kids.
thanks!
keri

[Kaybo]

Hunger Games is a series of 3 but I don't think that the 3rd comes out until August...someone help me out here. I immediately went to the 2nd after b/c 1) Addi already had it 2) I LOVED the 1st!

K   

[cindyj]

i'm way behind on here too.
ok, so what's next? Help or Hunger? and if it's hunger, that's in a series of 3....are we doing all 3?
i'll try to catch up too. it's helps when i'm traveling. last time i read so much of 'rain' while standing in line in NYC and sitting on a bus with a bunch of high school kids.
thanks!
keri

It's Hunger (just the 1st one), then Help.  Hunger is a pretty quick read...

Cindy

[saralynn143]

My recollection is also The Hunger Games followed by The Help.

Although if we all enjoy the sequels in the Hunger Games series, it might be nice to go ahead and discuss them later.

Sara

[cindyj]

I do plan to read the follow up books to Hunger, let's do plan to put them on our to-discuss-one-day-list.  I was describing it to my son and he said it sounds very much like Battle Royale.  Anyone read that one?

I'm back to my beloved historical fiction for a while...The Lymond Series and The Camulod Chronicles - very, very good reading for those of you who can stand historical stuff.  Not the "light reading" type like Phillipa Gregory's Tudor novels (though I do enjoy hers also)

Forgot to mention a book I read a couple of weeks ago that was quite well done - Whistling in the Dark.  Written from the perspective of a 10 year old girl, but deals with very grown-up topics.  Not historical and not one I would have read if it had not been recommended to me, but I really enjoyed it.  Might actually be a good one to put on our list also...where is our list any way

Cindy

[sgerrard]

P.P.S. Where is Steve?

Do miss you and your great insight, and ability to put that insight into words for us, Steve!

Cindy

I'm still here, but I haven't read The Gift of Rain. Thanks for thinking of me.

Steve

[Kaybo]

Am at the hospital - Emee (middle) had emergency appendectomy (is there any other kind really?)ast night. Had my book then but forgot it today in car!!  I went home about 3:15 to be there for our company this morning - we kind of rannout on them last night!! Dave stayed until I got back after Addi's 1st fame this morning!

K 

[CHD63]

Oh Kay ......

Life is never dull, is it??  I presume Emee is doing OK now.  What a night for you!

Many thoughts, love, and prayers.

Clarice

[saralynn143]

Goodness, Kaybo. Prayers for Emee. I've had my appendix out, so I know she is feeling better even if she is not up and about much yet.

I finished Catching Fire over the weekend, and The Help is in transit from the library.

Any last comments on The Gift of Rain?

Who's in for The Hunger Games discussion?

Sara

[Kaybo]

She is better - thanks everyone.  I think that they are taking the "we are not taking anything to Houston that we don't need" a little too seriously!!  I didn't mean body parts...tonsils, appendix, etc!!

I will finish Catching Fire tonight or tomorrow on the plane - I am definitely in on the Hunger Games!

K