WIT Book Club

June July August 2009

2009-05-14T18:22:00.000-07:00

Sorry about March, April& May! Book club was held - Deb had some Great Hummus- recipe to follow!

June: Loving Frank-Nancy Horan - Linda

July: Guide to the birds of East Africa-Nickolas Drayson-Katherine

August: People of the Book- Geraldine Brooks - Jen

Hummus - From Deb!

Yield: about 3 cups

2 cups cooked or canned chick-peas, drained (garbanzo beans)

2/3 cups tahini (sesame paste)

¾ cup lemon juice

2 garlic cloves, peeled

Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste

¼ cup finely chopped scallions

Italian parsley leaves

1. Place the chick-peas, tahini, lemon juice, garlic, salt and pepper in a food processor and blend until smooth. Stir in the scallions

2. Pile into a small bowl and garnish with parsley leaves. Serve with pita bread.

From The New York Times Cookbook, p. 23, by Craig Claiborne, c. 1990, Harper and Row, Publishers

Feb. 2009

2009-02-05T16:32:00.000-08:00

We decided at the February meeting that we need a more uplifting book! We decided to put The Story of Edgar Sawtell off until April or even May (plus it is very long!) So- next month we will read portions of, and talk about, "The Ladies of Liberty" and/or "Team of Rivals" . THEN we need to choose a few more books: at least two: one suggestion: "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows. We also have a long list of book hope-fulls - take a look! We are at Kathy & Genella's next month!

December 2008

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The next three month's selections have been made:

Jan. 09 (Deb)- "March" by Geraldine Brooks

Feb. 09 (Pam) - Select one or a combo:

"Left to Tell: Discovering God amidst the Rwandan Holocaust" by Immaculee Ilibagiza

"A Long Way Gone:Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah

"The House on Sugar Beach" by Helene Cooper

Watch Movie: " Lost Boys"

March 09 (Genella) - The Story of Edgar Sawtell by David Wrolbwski

Don't forget our on-going discussion books!

Dec 08-March 09 selections

2008-11-13T04:59:00.000-08:00

We decided at the Nov. meeting to have December be "Book Report" month. Everyone can read a book whether it is on the consideration list or not, and will talk about their book of choice.

We decided that we should have a book or two that is an ongoing book - "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin will be one of them, we will discuss it in short bursts at upcoming book club meetings. Also, "Ladies of Liberty" by Cokie Roberts. Both of these books are easier to read by reading small sections or chapters. This will be an ongoing read/discussion thoughtout 2009.

The new selections are: (results to be posted when the vote is finished!)

Old Booklist

2008-10-27T05:35:00.000-07:00

If anyone has a list of "reads" to fill in the blanks- that would be good!

November ’08- The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
October ’08- Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippet
September ’08- A Thousand Splendid Sunsby Khaled Hosseini
August ’08- An Ambiguous Loss by Pauline Boss
July ’08- The Tortilla Curtain by TC Boyle
June ’08- If I Lived to be 100: Lessons from the Centarians by Neehah Ellis
May ’08- Snow by Orhan Pamuk
April ’08- One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus
March ‘08- Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson
Feb. ’08- The Master Butcher’s Singing Club by Louise Erdich
December/Jan. 2008: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
November: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
October: Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
September: The girls who went away by Ann Fessler
August The Spirit Catches you and you fall Down- Anne Fadiman-
July: Spanish Pearl by Catherine Friend-
June: I Feel Bad about My Neck- Nora Ephron-
May: Floor of the Sky by Pamela Joern Carter -
April: Snow Moon Rising by Lori Lake - Rox
March: The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble
February : Lamb: the gospel According to Biff C. Morre
January 2007: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
December: The Ladies of Garrison Gardens,Louise Shaffer
November : Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston -Meet at Laura's -
October "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" Mark Haddon -
September "The memory Keeper's Daughter" Kim Edwards -
August "The miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" Kate DiCamillo
July "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
June 7th - Pam's House "Leap of Faith" Queen Noor
May "Hit By a Farm" Catherine Friend
April "Gilead" Marilynne Robinson
March
Feb.
Jan
2005
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sept Good Grief, Lolly Winston
Aug The Daughter of the Forest Park, Juliet Marillier
July Montana 1948, Larry Watson -
June The Weight of All Things, Sandra Benitez

May
April
March
Feb
Jan
2004
Dec
Nov
Oct at Catherine's Jane Austin Book Club
Sept at Pam's Founding Mothers Cokie Roberts
Aug AUGUST 3 at Kathy & Genella's Angry Housewives Eating BonBons Lorna Landvik
July
June
May
April Shadow Baby -Alison McGee
March Kitchen Boy
Feb - DaVinci Code
Jan - Favorite Poems
2003
Dec Another Counrty
Nov 3 Junes
Oct Sea Biscuit
Sept
Aug
July
June
May
April
March
Feb
Jan
2002
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sept
Aug
July
June
May
April
March
Feb
Jan
READING SUGGESTIONS:
"Dry Tears: the story of a lost childhood" Nechama Tec Mitford Series - Jan Karon (At Home in Mitford, A light in the Window, These High Green Hills, Out to Canaan, A new Song, A common Life-The wedding story,In this Mountain)

Books to consider

2008-10-25T19:25:00.000-07:00

Please vote for your top 4 -Dec, Jan, Feb, March

1. "Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust" Immaculee Ilibagizaq 2. "Last Lecture" Randy Pausch
3. "Dewey" Vicki Myran & Bret Winter
4. "Letter to my Daughter" by Maya Angelo
5. "The Oxford Project" Peter Feldstein
6. "The Shack" William Young
7. "Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: The Diary of Dang Thuy Tram"
8. "Ladies of Liberty" Cokie Roberts
9. "Happy Families" Wendy Lee
10. "March" Geraldine Brooks
11. "Team of Rivals" Doris Kearns Goodwin
12. "The Story of Lillian Carter" Jimmy Carter
13. The Story of Edgar Sawtell David Wrolbwski
14. " House of Lust" Author???
15. "Mountains Beyond Mountains" Tracy Kidder
16. "Portrait of and Unknown Woman" Vanora Bennett
17. "Infidel" Ayaan Hirsi Ali
18. "The legacy of Luna" by Julia Butterfly Hill
19. " The Dance of the Dissonant Daughter" Sue Monk Kidd
20. "The House on Sugar Beach" Helene Cooper
21. "What id the waht?" David Eggers