Books Are In!

The books are in!
The books are in!

Please stop by the Reference Desk to pick up your copy.

Book Request Survey

Please enter your request (if you want me to get the book) by Wednesday, September 17th by 11:30 p.m.

Away by Amy Bloom Request
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Survey Results

Here are the final counts!

• 12 VOTES: Away (Bloom), Across a Hundred Mountains (Grande) and On Chesil Beach (McEwan)
• 11 VOTES: Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (O'Farrell) and Then We Came to the End (Ferris)
  
• 10 VOTES: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Hamid), Fire in the Blood (Nemirovsky) and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Diaz)
• 9 VOTES: Bridge of Sighs (Russo), The Lazarus Project (Heman), and Escape into America (Rivera)
• 8 VOTES: Spook Country (Gibson), A Free Life (Jin), The Road (McCarthy), The Gathering (Enright) and Lush Life (Price)
• 7 VOTES: Half of a Yellow Sun (Adichie), The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (Wroblewski), The Maytrees: A Novel (Dillard), Falling Man (DeLillo)
• 5 Votes: Master Pip (Jones), Savage Detectives (Bolano), Tree of Smoke: A Novel (Johnson)
• 1 Vote (I'm sad to announce that I was the only person who voted for this...typical) Atmospheric Disturbances (Galchen)
  

Susan
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Suggested Meeting TImes and Books

I suggest that we start our reading with the books that got the most votes and then work our way down

• October - Away (Bloom) - sugggested meeting October 24th
• November - Across a Hundred Mountains (Grande) - suggested meeting November 14th
• December - On Chesil Beach (McEwan) - December 12th or 18th
• January - Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (O'Farrell) - January 16th
• February - Then We Came to the End (Ferris) - suggested meeting February 13th or 20th
• March - The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Hamid) - suggested meeting March 13th
• April - Fire in the Blood (Nemirovsky) - suggested meeting April 10th
• May - Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Diaz) - suggested meeting May 8th or 15th
• June - Bridge of Sighs (Russo) - suggested meeting June 12th
• July - Lazarus Project (Heman) - suggested meeting July 10th
• August - Escape into America (Rivera) - suggested meeting August 14th or 21st
• September - TBA

how do you want the books?

Information I need from you:

1. Do you want me to order a copy of our October book? New (amazon $11.20)? Loan? Audio? Large Print? Please let me know by Wednesday, September 17th.
2. Do you want me to order a copy of our November book? New (amazon $4.99)? Loan? Audio? Large Print? Please let me know by Friday, October 3rd.
3. Is there a book you would like to host? I will supply you with reviews and other background info (where available.)
4. Do you think you will attend the October meeting?
   

Ooooh, I almost forgot. It must be lack of caffeine. Do we want to have food and beverages? I can arrange for some fruit, soda, water and other small snacks for the first meeting. Perhaps we could chip in for anything else? This is going to be soooo much fun!

Face to Face Meetings (if you want):
We can meet in the library on Fridays after hours (so about 4;45 or 5:00.) I have a volunteer for On Chesil Beach. If no one else wants it I will cover Away. Does anyone have any preferences for hosting? Please remember you don't have to be here for the meeting and you don't have to make every month. I will set up a discussion on our blog for every book and as blog authors we can talk about each book online too! If you would like me to send you another invitation to the blog or you would like me to help you set it up just let me know.

Talk to you soon,
Susan

Welcome to the Fiction Readers Group

Hi Everyone!
Welcome to the blog for our book discussion group. Please take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the functionality of the site. When you are unable to attend a meeting (assuming we can ever set a date) you can join the discussion by posting comments and observations on our blog.

Survey Monkey Survey

Here is the survey for our book selections for the year.

Please pick twelve books.

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