Category Archives: Book Club 2015

In the realm of hit or misses this book was a miss. Most of the books I read with Dragon I end up really liking because she has high standards and excellent taste but this one didn’t live up to its potential. Each time I thought about the book while I was reading it itContinueContinue reading “Plum Dragon book club: The Steady Running of the Hour by Justin Go”

For October we opted to read scary books in honor of Halloween. I chose to continue my odyssey of rereading Ann Rice. The title I chose was The Witching Hour. This is a sweeping, epic novel that spends several hundred years in the life of a doomed family cursed by a spirit named Lasher. IContinueContinue reading “Staff book club: Spooky books”

This book was wildly popular when it came out several years ago but I missed its debut and was just introduced to this title last month. The story, in a nutshell, is about a family dealing with the sickness and death of the mother and subsequent custody battle over young Zoe between the father andContinueContinue reading “Staff and BTBL Book Club: The Art of Racing in the Rain”

Dragon and I recently read the latest Supreme Court Justice’s memoir: My Beloved World. I knew nothing about Sotomayor’s history before reading this title and I feel like it gave an interesting and appropriate glimpse into the early life of such a powerful public figure. Sotomayor is the daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants, her fatherContinueContinue reading “Plum Dragon Book Club: My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor”

In June the staff bookclub read family stories (because I was the only one willing to suggest a genre so I asked if it would be ok to double up on what I was reading in my other book club, Plum Dragon). At first we were going to read memoirs but we’d already done that,ContinueContinue reading “Staff Book Club: Family Stories”

In May the Braille and Talking Book club that I belong to read Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt. That month’s moderator wanted to read literary fiction and we advised that she choose something likeable and accessible. The last person to choose literary fiction opted for a book that took some work to like (what’s moreContinueContinue reading “BTBL Book Club: Angela’s Ashes and Nasdijj”