[Insert Clever Name Here] Book Club
| This page will hopefully serve as a clearinghouse for meeting info and for additional sources related to the books and topics at hand. | |
| Book Reviews: | |
| Foucault's Pendulum | Into the Wild |
| Princess Mononoke | |
| Graphic Novels | Short Reviews |
| Next Meeting: March 4 at Lonnie and Martha's. | |
| Book choices: On Your Own | |
| Other Books Under Consideration: | |
| Books recommended for the next meeting are in bold | |
| Fiction | |
| American Gods - Neil Gaimon (fantasy) | |
| Johnathon Strange and Mr. Norell - Suzanne Clarke (fantasy) | |
| Fencing Master - Arturo Pérez-Reverte (fantasy) | |
| Flanders Panel - Arturo Pérez-Reverte (fantasy) | |
| The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell (fantasy) | |
| A Small Death in Lisbon - Robert Wilson (mystery) | |
| A Darkening Stain - Robert Wilson (mystery) | |
| Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier (historical fiction) | |
| Girl in Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland (historical fiction) | |
| The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier (historical fiction) | |
| An Instance of the Fingerpost - Ian Pears (historical fiction) | |
| Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin (classic fiction) | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (classic fiction) | |
| The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason (mystery) | |
| Reservation Blues - Sherman Alexie (fiction, recommended to pair with "Changes in the Land") | |
| Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| A day late & a dollar short - Terry McMillan | |
| Non-Fiction | |
| The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - Malcolm Gladwell (non-fiction) | |
| The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story - Michael Lewis(non-fiction) | |
| Animals in Translation : Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior - Temple Grandin (non-fiction) | |
| Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There - David Brooks (non-fiction) | |
| Collapse - Jared Diamond (non-fiction) | |
| Changes in the Land : Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England - William Cronon (non-fiction) | |
| The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary - Simon Winchester (non-fiction) | |
| 1776 by David McCullough (nonfiction) | |
| Talk & social theory: Ecologies of speaking & listening in everyday life by F. Erickson (non-fiction) | |
| How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School by John Bransford et al (non-fiction) | |
| Parents, Kids, and Power Struggles - Mary Sheedy Kurcinka (non-fiction) | |
| The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan (non-fiction) | |
| Graphic Novels | |
| The Watchmen by Alan Moore. | |
| V for Vendetta by Alan Moore. | |
| Batman: the Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller. | |
| Grendel: Devil by the Deed by Matt Wagner. | |
| Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman | |
| Mage: The Hero Discovered by Matt Wagner. | |
| Mage: The Hero Defined by Matt Wagner. | |
| Elementals: The Natural Order by Bill Willingham. | |
| Movie | |
| Princess Mononoke (anime) | |
| Graveyard of the Fireflies (anime) | |
| Nausicaa: Warriors of the Wind (anime) | |
| Ghost in the Shell (anime) | |
| Akira (anime) | |
| Appleseed (anime) | |
| Books under discussion: | |
| Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond | |
| The Birth of Venus by Sarah Durant | |