October 2009

What was in the air last night that brought out the anglophile in all of us?  We all had stories to tell about our experiences with English culture, some fit to print and some not.  Jane shared her visit to Bronte country and described the trees "dripping with shadow and shade."  Pam looked like she just got back from her summer in England, the glow still about her, and we all silently agreed that Cornwall would be an ideal place to have an off-site book club meeting.  You in?

In the meantime, yesterday was the National Day on Writing.  Regina Brett's story is below, and she's invited us to write our memoir in six words.  Here's mine:

Quiet demeanor, creative interior, still traveling.

What's yours?????

Link to Regina Brett's story

http://www.cleveland.com/brett/blog/index.ssf/2009/10/writing_your_life_in_six_words.html

And the books from last night:

Shogun - Barbara finally finished it!

Tales of Terror, 58 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock

An Echo in the Bones - Diana Gabaldon

Paul Newman, A Life - Shawn Levy

Elements of Style - Strunk and White

Divine Justice - David Baldacci

Amateur Barbarians - Robert Cohen (don't bother reading this)

The View from Castle Rock - Alice Munro

God is not Great - Christopher Hitchens

Reading Like a Writer - Francise Prose

The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn Club - Gil McNeil

The Lost Art of Gratitude - Alexander McCall Smith

Pam took one for the team and read The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

A good place for good/bad reviews is Goodreads.com

The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

White Oleander - Janet Fitch

Inside London

Miss Julia's School of Beauty - Ann B. Ross

The Sweet Potato Queens books - Jill Conner Browne

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt

The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

The Shack - William Young

The Fourth Turning - Strauss and Howe

My Life in France - Julia Child

Laura Lippman's short stories

Rosamunde Pilcher's books

The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica - James Owen

Loving Frank - Nancy Horan

The Women - T.C. Boyle

The Wright Experience - Sarah Hunt editor

Loving the Inspector Lewis series

Shadowlands movie

Check out the Regency Era puzzle and House's House at www.funtrivia.com

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

Sally Hemings - Barbara Chase-Riboud

Books by Elizabeth George

Books by Minette Walters such as The Ice House and The Sculptress

Stories taking place in Cornwall:  Where the Light Remains - Hayden Gabriel, Revenge of a Middle Aged Woman - Elizabeth Buchan