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an amphibious kind of book club 
The Lizards are quiet now because two of us have moved away and two of us are gone.
 


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This list of past selections is not complete.  If anyone remembers a book which should
be added, please let the
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2007

July 19- Joanne McCarthy's

Plain Truth
by Jodi Picoult

discussion questions
 
August 16 at --TBA

 
Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson


discussion questions
 
September 20 at --The Grahams

 Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time
by Mark Haddon

discussion questions
 
October 25 - at Joanie Olin's
(This is a date & place change)

Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
discussion questions

 

November 15 -  at Harriet Ritter's

Blackberry Tea Club
 by Barbara Herrick
December 20 - at Peg Houle's

 Fear of Flying
by Erica Jong

January 17, 2007 
at Ellen Tureck's

Path to Power
By Robert Caro

February 21, 2007 
at Constance Bizer's

Freddy & Fredericka
by Matt Helprin

 

March 21, 2007  
at Linda Holm's

Lie Down in Darkness
by William Styron

April 21, 2007
at Patti & Ralph Graham's

Princess
by Joan Sasson

May 16, 2007  - 7:30 pm
at Peg Houle's

The Human Stain
by Phillip Roth
Discussion Questions

 

June 20, 2007 
at Joanne McCarthy's

All the Fishes Come Home to Roost
by Rachel Manija Brown
Discussion Questions

July 18, 2007  Place  TBA

Frankenstein
by Mary Shelly

August 15, 2007 at Pam Pitts'

March
By Geraldine Brooks

 

September 19, 2007   at Pat Horn's

In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
October 17, 2007  at Peg Houle's

Glass Castle
by Jeanett Walls
discussion questions
November 21, 2007 at Joanne McCarthy's

Beach Road
by James Patterson
discussion questions

 

December 19, 2007  Place  TBA

Rattled
by Debra Gallant
discussion questions



Selections from 2006

January 18 at Linda Holm's
(last minute change)

Possession
by A.S. Byatt

 
February 15 at Peg Houle's

When We Were Gods
A Novel of Cleopatra
by Colin Falconer
Cleopatra on the Web
(what's she doing there?
tell her to get off!)

 
March 15 at Connie Bizer's

The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood

discussion questions

view pictures of this meeting
April 19 at Ellen Hunoval's

Sea Biscuit
by
Laura Hillenbrand

discussion questions
 
May 24 at the Rich's
 
Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
discussion questions

Possible Jacuzzi afterwards!
June 14- 7 p.m. at Broccolini's
for Dinner!
Please let Linda Rich know whether you'll come or not by June 7.
Bring a suggestion for next year's book list!

(Note that Kite Runner has been moved to October so we can concentrate on food.)
July 19- Joanne McCarthy's

Plain Truth
by Jodi Picoult

discussion questions
 
August 16 at --TBA

 
Devil in the White City
by Erik Larson


discussion questions
 
September 20 at --The Grahams

 Curious Incident of the Dog at Night Time
by Mark Haddon

discussion questions
 

 

Selections from 2005 :

Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
 
Straight Man by Richard Russo
 
Stories of John Cheever
 
The Things They Carried by Tim O/Brien
 
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Wicked
by Gregory Maguire

The City and the Pillar
by Gore Vidal

The Unbearable Lightness of Being  by Milan Kundera

The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons
by Lorna Landvik
 
Atonement by Ian McEwan

Tender is the Night

Leap of Faith
by Queen Noor

Wish You Well
by David Baldacci
 

From 2003-2004:

January 13 - Linda Rich
"Jack the Ripper" by Patricia Cornwell


February 10- Joanne McCarthy
"Odd Girl Out"


March 9 - Harriet Ritter
"The Secret Life of Bees"


April 20 - Ellen Tureck
"Morgans Run" by Colleen McCullough

May 11 - Patti and Ralph Graham
"Year of Wonder"

June 8 - Broccolini's

July 13 - McCarthy's Pool
"A Fine Balance" by Mistry

August 10 - Rich's Pool
"The DaVinci Code"

(Thanks to Linda Rich for adding these)
Tepper Isn't Going Out by Calvin Trillin
1,000 White Women by James Fergus
Island by Alistair MacLeod
Wish You Were Here by Stuart O'Nan
War Torn by Edith Lederer et al.
The Passion of Artemesia by Susan Vreeland
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett

Pre-2003 Selections

  1. A Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

  2. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

  3. Memoirs of  a Geisha by Arthur S. Golden

  4. I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb

  5. Welcome to the World, Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg

  6. The Patron Saint of Liars - Ann Patchett

  7. Powerbook - Jeanette Winterson

  8. Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver

  9. One for the Money - Evanovich

  10. One True Thing

  11. Open House

  12. Poisonwood Bible

  13. Pope Joan

  14. Pride and Prejudice

  15. The Red Tent

  16. She's Come Undone

  17. Since You've Been Gone

  18. Snow in August

  19. Where the Heart Is

  20. Captain Corelli's Mandolin

  21. Crossing to Safety

  22. The Bonesetter's Daughter

  23. Empire Falls

  24. Nickel and Dimed  -  Barbara Ehrenreich 

  25. Bee Season -  Myla Goldberg

  26. Vinegar Hill  - A. Manette Mansay

  27. Sin Killer  - Larry McMurtry

  28. The Blind Assasin -  Margaret Atwood

  29. Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
    by Anne LaMott

  30. Any Work by Mark Twain, or a biography of Twain

  31. The Seal Wife - by Katheryn Harrison

  32. Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood