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Jan 14 2020

2020 Reading List

Unless otherwise noted, book club starts at 6:30pm on the last Tuesday of the month.

DateTITLEAUTHORHOST
Jan 28, 2020Nothing to Do but StayCarrie YoungNancy
Feb 25, 2020The TestamentsMargaret AtwoodConnie
Mar 31,2020The Collected SchizophreniasEsme WangJill
April 28, 2020Where the Crawdads SingDelia OwensLavonne & Joe
May 26, 2020The Great AloneKristin HannahElsie
June. 30, 2020What Unites UsDan RatherJill
Aug 4, 2020Our Souls at NightKent HarufKay & Mike
Sept 1, 2020Worthy Brown’s DaughterPhillip MargolinLisa
Sept 29, 2020The OverstoryRichard PowersSara
Oct 27, 2020Empire of the Summer MoonS. C. GwynneLavonne & Joe
Nov 24, 2020Just MercyBrian StevensonConnie

Written by Sheila Bergman · Categorized: Book Lists

Jan 10 2019

2018 -2019 Reading List

Unless otherwise noted, book club starts at 6:30pm on the last Tuesday of the month.

DateTITLEAUTHORHOST
Jan 8, 2019

XMAS Gathering

No book, lots of foodLisa
Jan 29, 2019

Before We Were Yours

Lisa WingateConnie
Feb 26,2019

The Fall of WI

Dan KaufmanNancy
Mar 26, 2019

Clarinet Polka

Keith MallardJill
April 30, 2019Canoeing with the CreeEric Sevareid
Merv
& Sheila
May 28, 2019Little Hawk & the Lone WolfRaymond C KaguatoshLavonne & Joe
June 25, 2019
My Name is Asher Lev
Chaim Potok Lisa
Aug 6Eleanor OliphantGail Hoveyman Lavonne
Aug 27, 2019 DuneFrank Herbert Lisa
Sept 24, 2019The President is MissingJames Patterson, Bill ClintonNancy
Oct 29, 2019Born a CrimeTrevor NoahKay & Mike
Nov 26, 2019 UnshelteredBarbara KingsolverElsie
Dec /
Early Jan
No book but definitely food Lisa

Written by Sheila Bergman · Categorized: Book Lists

Aug 30 2017

2017 – 2018 Reading List

 

Unless otherwise noted, book club starts at 6:30pm on the last Tuesday of the month.

Date TITLE AUTHOR  HOST
Sept 26, 2017

Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

James R. Doty MD   Lavonne
Oct 31

The Handmaid’s Tale

 Margaret Atwood  Nancy
Nov 28

Down the Mississippi with Stinky: Two Women, a Canoe, and a Kitten (Wisconsin)
available on Amazon.com and from Connie

Dorie Brunner  Connie
Jan 2, 2018

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven / Smoke Signals movie

 Sherman Alexie  Lisa
Jan 30 You Don’t Have to Say I Love You Sherman Alexie
 Elsie
Feb 27
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus  Charles C. Mann  Jill
Mar 27
The Girl with Seven Names – Escape from North Korea
  

Hyeonseo Lee
 Kay and Mike 
April 24
 The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women  Kare Moore  Lisa
May 29  The Roundhouse  Louise Erdrich  Sheila And Merv
June 26 All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel  Anthony Doerr   Lavonne
July 31  The Hate U Give  Angie Thomas  Nancy
Aug 28  The Piano Tuner  Daniel Mason  Connie
Sept 25

Into the Water

Pamela Hawkins

 Elsie
Oct 30  The Elephant Whisperer Lawrence Anthony  Jill
Nov 27 Book Selection    Mike and Kay

Written by Sheila Bergman · Categorized: Book Lists

Aug 10 2016

2016 – 2017 Reading List

 

Unless otherwise noted, book club starts at 6:30pm on the last Tuesday of the month.

Date TITLE AUTHOR  HOST
Aug 30 27 Movie – The Wrecking Crew https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(music) Sheila and Merv
Sept 27 H is for Hawk Helen Mac Donald Nancy
Oct 25 The Orphan Train Christine Baker Klein Mike & Kay
Nov 29 The Jesus Cow Michael Perry Lavonne
Dec 27 Food! Holiday Gathering
Lisa’s
Jan 31
The Great Influenza John Barny Elsie
Feb 21 LaRose Louisa Erdrich Jill
March 21
The Book of Night Women Marlon James Sheila & Merv
April 25 One Summer: America 1927 Bill Bryson Nancy
May 30 Quiet Susan Cain Lavonne
June 27 My Name is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout Kay and Mike
July 29 Book Selection Book Selection on Saturday come for any or all of the weekend. Port Wing

Written by Sheila Bergman · Categorized: Book Lists

May 19 2015

2015 – 2016 Reading List

 

We had a patch of these beautiful mushrooms growing by the old house earlier this month.
We had a patch of these beautiful mushrooms growing by the old house earlier this month.

 Unless otherwise noted, book club starts at 6:30pm on the last Tuesday of the month.

Date TITLE AUTHOR  HOST
May 26 Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger Rose
June 30 Two Old Women Velara Wallis Lisa
July 28 The Heart of Things John Hildebrand LaVonne
August 25 Redeployment Phi Klay Nancy
September 29 Dead Wake Erik Larson
Elsie
Mon Oct 27
The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins Kay & Mike
November 24 The Essays of E. B. White E. B. WHite Sheila & Merv
Dec.
Holiday Gathering  TBA Lisa
January 26 The Destiny of the Republic  Candice Millard Jill
February 23 Being Mortal Atul Gawande Nancy
March 29 A Constellation of Vital Phenomena Anthony Manu Lisa
April 26 The Harder They Come TC Boyle LaVonne
May 31 The Price of Inequality Joseph Stiglitz Sheila & Merv
June 28 Gone Girl Gillian Flynn Kay & Mike

Written by Sheila Bergman · Categorized: Book Lists

Jan 09 2015

2014 2015 Reading List

winter-weather

 Unless otherwise noted, book club starts at 6:30pm on the last Tuesday of the month.

MONTH TITLE AUTHOR  HOST
June The Burgess Boys (F) Elizabeth Stout Nancy
July Life After Life (F) Kate Atkinson Elsie
August The Boys in the Boat (NF) Daniel James Brown Sheila
September The Other Typist (F) Suzanne Rindell Kay & Mike
Mon Oct 27 Visiting Tom (F?) Michael Perry Lavonne
November The Invisible Ones (F) Stef Penney Rose
Dec. 16th Holiday Gathering   Lisa
January The Long Shining Waters (F)  Danielle Sosin Joyce
February The Invention of Wings (F) Sue Monk Kidd Nancy
March The New Jim Crow (NF) Michelle Alexander Donna
April Book Selection Bring Two Books Jill

 

Written by Sheila Bergman · Categorized: Book Lists

Mar 28 2013

2013 Reading List

Standard meeting time: Last Tuesday of the month at 6:30

MONTH BOOK HOST
April Full Moon Over Madeline Island by Jay Gilbertson Jill
May Finding Freedom: The Untold Story of Joshua Glover, Runaway Slav, by Walter T. McDonald, Ruby West Jackson Nancy
June My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor Sheila and Merv
July Blasphemy by Sherman Alexie  Jodie
August The Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks  Lisa
September The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien  Kay and Mike
October Hotel On The Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford  LaVonne and Joe
November The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh Rose
December 17th Holiday gathering Lisa
January “The Way” -by Kristen Wolf  Elsie
February The Age of Miracles, by Karen Thompson Walker  Joyce
March “An American Childhood”, Anne Dillard  Jill
April “The Presidents Club” by Nancy Gibbs & Michael Duffy.  Rose
May “The Other Wes Moore, One Name, Two Fates” by Wes Moore.  LaVonne and Joe

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Feb 03 2012

2012 Book Club Schedule

Date

Book

Host

February, 28th 2012 Lucy Lucy by Laurence Gonzales Jill
March, 27th 2012 In the Garden of Beasts: Love,... In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
by Erik Larson
Jodie
April, 24th 2012 There but for the There but for the
by Ali Smith
Joyce
May,29th, 2012 A Universe from Nothing: Why T... A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
by Lawrence M. Krauss , Richard Dawkins
Rose
June, 26th, 2012 The Little Stranger T he Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
Elsie
July, 31st, 2012 Wingshooters Wingshooters
by Nina Revoyr
Nancy
August, 28th 2012 In the Sanctuary of Outcasts In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
by Neil White
Jodie
September, 25th 2012   You Are Not So Smart: Why You... You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself
by David McRaney
Mike & Kay
October, 30th 2012 It Can't Happen Here It Can’t Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis , Michael Meyer
Sheila & Merv
November 27th, 2012 The Brief Wondrous Life of Osc... The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz Jill
January 8 Holiday gathering. Activity (aside from eating) to be announced Canceled
January, 29th 2013 Night Night
by Elie Wiesel , Marion Wiesel
Lisa
February, 26 2013   State of Wonder State of Wonder
by Ann Patchett
 Lavonne
March, 26 2013 Thunderstruck Thunderstruck
by Erik Larson
TBA
April, 30 2013  Full Moon Over Madeline Island by Jay GilbertsonFull Moon Over Madeline Island TBA

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