ANA Book Club?

[dalern]

I'm reading a wonderful book that I can't put down.  The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer.  It's a novel that follows a family through Europe and to the US pre WWII and during and after.  Fascinating.  I love books that are novels based on true historical facts.  Heart warming, heart wrenching, and well written. 
~Dale

[leapyrtwins]

Dale -

did you ever read the book we refer to in this thread as the "Potato book"?  Something to do with Guernsey and Potato Pie Society - or something like that.

It's fiction, but has lots of history incorporated into the story.  I didn't think I'd like it, but I loved it.

If you haven't read it you should.  I think you'd like it.

Jan

[CHD63]

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows ..... absolutely wonderful book, like none other I have ever read.  You will enjoy it.  You can get it for Kindle, as well as in paperback.

Clarice

[leapyrtwins]

Thanks Clarice for the official title of the book - glad you knew what I was talking about.

Jan

[dalern]

I'm going to download than into my Nook right now!  Thanks Jan and Clarice!
~Dale

[cindyj]

The "Potato" book was a good one!  It's one I never would have picked up on my own due to the name of it.  But, thanks to the ANA Book club, I did read it.  Think that was one of the last ones we read and discussed as a group here?

Cindy

[Keri]

i loved the potato book too! dale, i may try the one you just read. i love historical books, especially based around WWII.

cindy, i think there were discussions on a group of books after the potato one; i never bought those and kind of checked out of this discussion for a time. but i'd like to do something again; this summer may be better.

keri

[Kaybo]

I LOVED the potato book too!!  Dale, I am going to try the one you said also!  I am ready to do a book on here - it always "stretches" my reading selection!

K   

[Keri]

kay, remind me to read the book dale read! i'm sure i'll forget where i saw it, and what the name is....

[Kaybo]

Just got Invisible Bridge!!  I have to finish The Dressmaker first, but we are just hanging out at the beach and reading all weekend so I will probably start it soon!   

Jan~
Have you read the new HC books?  Looks like he has 2 now that I haven't read!

K   

[leapyrtwins]

Kay -

just finished Back Spin by HC and am currently reading Caught.

I just got an email today from Amazon about his latest book - the title escapes me.

Tell me more about The Dressmaker. 

Jan

[lori67]

I haven't kept up on here since I can't read on anyone else's schedule, but I do like to read about your suggestions!

I just finished "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" - very good.  Also recently finished "Still Alice" - about a woman with early onset Alzheimer's, "Saving Fish from Drowning", "The Art of Racing in the Rain" (LOVED that one!), "Letters to God" and I'm working on 2 Jodi Piccoult books now - "Salem Falls" and "Songs of the Humpback Whale"  Both good so far.  I keep one in the car to read while waiting on the pick-up line at school and one in the house.

I think I'm going to have to read the Potato book, since it's getting rave reviews here.  I also liked "Water for Elephants", but I have a feeling the movie won't be as good as the book.

I've been reading a whole lotta kids books lately - my second grader has to read a book every night and take a test on it at school  Good program and it has done wonders for her comprehension, but I'm getting a little tired of reading books about talking animals and elementary school super-sleuths.   

Lori

[saralynn143]

. . . I have a feeling the movie won't be as good as the book.

Yeah, that's usually the case, unfortunately.

[leapyrtwins]

I have the same thoughts about the Water for Elephants movie.  Loved the book; think I'll skip the movie although I really like Reese Witherspoon.

Art of Racing in the Rain was very good.

Will have to check out Ugly Stepsister and Savings Fish from Drowning.  Not sure I can take a "heavy" topic like that addressed in Still Alice.

Lori, I still have the Potato book.  If you want me to, I can mail you mine.  Just let me know.

Jan

[Soundy]

I have read a bunch of books for school ... books for 7th and 8th grade ready for some adult type reading ...

was giving a book Blindness by Jose Saramago to read for 8th and 9th grade ... a sudden outbreak of unexplained blindness in an unnamed city ... a hundred pages in and so far there are alot of people that have come in contact with each other ... from first man who was at stop light and went blind , to the man who took him home and then stole his car , to the policeman who found the thief and took him home ... the government rounds all the blind people up and put them in an abandon mental hospital and it doesn't take long for people to either decide to help those around them or to go into attack mode ... breakdown of society on a small scale ...not sure where it is going ...I guess I will have to finish reading to find out

don't really like the style ...kind of narrative but no real conversations ... everyone is talking over each other ...alot of commas and no quotation marks .... no character names ...just people .. ( the doctor , the doctors wife , the girl with dark glasses , the boy with squinted eyes )  ... I was told today that it was made into a movie but I don't remember seeing it advertised ...