Book Club

I'm in the lucky position to be the Book Club leader for our ward, which just means that I say hello at the beginning and go most months. I love books and reading and I love talking about books and reading, too, and the group tolerates me so nicely. I feel like we should make time to read the best books that we can, because as wives and mothers, we don't have time to waste on books that aren't "virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy."

That being said, here are the books we're planning on reading for the first 7 months of 2009

Jan--The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Feb--A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel
March--The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio by Terry Ryan
April--The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy (The author is a girl, for all of you looking for a unique girl's name)
May--The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
June--The Color of Water by James McBride
July--Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

I'm really excited to read or reread all of these books. I'm sure we'll have some great discussions.

And here are the other books we talked about reading in the future:

Dandelion Wine (Ray Bradbury)
As a Driven Leaf
Big Stone Gap
These is My Words
Bean Trees (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Bonesetter's Daughter
The Little Balloonist
Mere Christinity
The Time of the Butterflies
Golden Urchin
The Bronze Bow
My Name is Asher Lev
Blink
I See Sparks
Les Miserables
To Kill a Mockingbird
Secret Life of Bees
Hadassah One Night With The King
Elantris (Brandon Sanderson)

All the King's Men

Left to Tell

The Music of Dolphins

Jacob Have I Loved

The Crucible

Angle of Repose

Autobiography of Mark Twain

The Screwtape Letters

Mere Christianity

A Grief Observed

The Perfect Storm

Out of the Dust

So many good books, so little time.