Book Club Chit Chat Thread

[anthony]

You could have read that anywhere someone else may have discussed it, and it is also within the future book list for possible selection, however; it has not been selected to read as yet.

[DLMURL]https://www.ptsdforum.org/c/threads/book-list.23114/[/DLMURL]

There are book chosen, being they have been selected and ordered to a month for reading.

Books suggested, are just that, and have not yet been selected for reading, and cannot be discussed because they exist in suggested reading.

Book read, are just that, and have a thread existing and were read in a prior month.

 

[anthony]

I have culled down the "suggested books" a little, just now, and posted them below, removing them from the book list. If you want any of the below, then add them to the book list thread and I will include them again.

The book list is linked above. I will not take anything from this thread.

Otherwise, suggestions are open only to active participating book club members. All submissions from others will be deleted.

This removes the issue of people having a say in what is read, then not participating at all.

I think we should keep the list short, being no more than 20 books in total that get randomised. So maybe think hard about what you want to read, thus we read more in the genres of those actively participating, whilst still reading things we wouldn't otherwise read due to active participants having different tastes. Books should not be what you've read, instead books you haven't.

It is a "suck it up" approach IMHO, being your either active and reading diversity, or you're not. Book club is about getting out of your comfort zone, not reading the same stuff you would normally.

• A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (300 pages, $10)
• A Week in December (400 pages, $11)
• American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (400 pages, $16)
• Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America (416 pages, $10)
• And the Band Played on: The Enthralling Account of What Happened After the Titanic Sank (270 pages, $10)
• Audrey's Door (430 pages, $3)
• Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel (370 pages, $10)
• Blind: A Memoir (180 pages, $15)
• Blind Fury (510 pages, $6)
• Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (300 pages, $11)
• Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (220 pages, $17)
• Breakfast of Champions: A Novel (300 pages, $10)
• Brixton Beach (430 pages, $7)
• Busted (320 pages, $12)
• Call The Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s (380 pages, $8)
• Cutting for Stone (660 pages, $10)
• Duma Key (800 pages, $10)
• Evil: Inside Human Cruelty And Violence (450 pages, $14)
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (315 pages, $11)
• Freedom: A Novel (600 pages, $11)
• God, If You're Not Up There, I'm F*cked: Tales of Stand-Up, Saturday Night Live, and Other Mind-Altering Mayhem (280 pages, $17)
• Gravity (400 pages, $8)
• Greedy Bastards: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry (250 pages, $15)
• Gone with the wind (960 pages, $11)
• Illusions (190 pages, $10)
• Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know (380 pages, $11)
• Into The Darkest Corner (400 pages, $10)
• Just Kids (320 pages, $11)
• Kafka on the Shore (480 pages, $11)
• Let The Great World Spin: A Novel (400 pages, $10)
• Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir (330 pages, $16)
• Liquor: A Novel (350 pages, $11)
• Living Well with Anxiety: What Your Doctor Doesn't Tell You... That You Need to Know (350 pages, $6)
• Lost Empire (A Fargo Adventure) (510 pages, $10)
• Love in a Nutshell (350 pages, $9)
• Man's Search for Meaning (170 pages, $8)
• Mercy (410 pages, $11)
• Minding Frankie (510 pages, $10)
• Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation (330 pages, $11)
• Missing You (400 pages, $9)
• Moneyball (320 pages, $10)
• My Dear I Wanted to Tell You (330 pages, $20)
• Night (120 pages, $10)
• Phantom (380 pages, $16) (Jo Nesbo)
• Plainsong (300 pages, $10)
• Power to the Patient: The Treatments to Insist On When You're Sick (460 pages, $27)
• Prime: A Novel (300 pages, $12)
• Promises, Promises (450 pages, $15)
• Real Life: Preparing for the 7 Most Challenging Days of Your Life (330 pages, $12)
• Rescue: A Novel (320 pages, $10)
• Room: A Novel (350 pages, $10)
• Sarah's Key (330 pages, $11)
• Secret Intensity of Everyday Life (340 pages, $16)
• She's Come Undone (480 pages, $8)
• Surviving in an Angry World (250 pages, $11)
• Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior (220 pages, $11)
• Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq(260 pages, $15)
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (320 pages, $10)
• The Book Thief (570 pages, $10)
• The Brave: A Novel (380 pages, $11)
• The Courage To Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (640 pages, $13)
• The Crimson Rooms (450 pages, $6)
• The Fifth Witness (Lincoln Laywer) (450 pages, $10)
• The Girl on the Cliff (560 pages, $12)
• The Help (540 pages, $10)
• The London Train (P.S.) (350 pages, $10)
• The Long Song: A Novel (350 pages, $6)
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales (250 pages, $8)
• The Mind's Eye (280 pages, $10)
• The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: What Treatments Work and Why (250 pages, $12)
• The News Where You Are (270 pages, $9)
• The Rapture (300 pages, $19)
• The Running Dream (350 pages, $10)
• The Secret of Happy Ever After (510 pages, $11)
• The Slap (480 pages, $18)
• The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement (450 pages, $11)
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (360 pages, $10)
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (300 pages, $11)
• The Villa in Italy (430 pages, $10)
• Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson? (190 pages, $10)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin (400 pages, $10)
• Yesterday's Sun (400 pages, $10)

 

[anthony]

Now that I've finished the Mitch Rapp books, I'm starting Lee Childs "Jack Reacher" books. Got #1 & #2 already, with #3 > #7 on there way. They should arrive in 10 days time, thus ready for reading upon arrival.

Then that will leave me #8 > #17 to read. That, along with other books, should keep me busy for the remainder of the year atleast.

http://www.leechild.com/books.php

 

[Lady of Longbourn]

Going to read War Horse with everyone. I have to add it to my list of shopping. Excited!:)

 

[anthony]

I'm really looking forward to the October book, Unbroken. That book has over 2500 reviews on Amazon, giving it a 4+ star rating. It has also been turned into a major motion film.

That books story has gone massive... supposed to be a very intensive, excellent story.

 

[KP the nut]

OMG, Anthony is turning into the dark angel by tempting me to buy more books. Now I want another Mitch Rapp book and the Oct book of the month and I want the 50 shades series.

Oh well, I have bought a ticket for tonights lottery and if that fails, the books will be on my birthday list along with a kindle:D.

 

[CraftyCath]

You will have to do what I do KP and order them from the library. My local one looks around all the other libraries in the area and then orders or reserves it for me.

No money to pay unless I'm late taking it back. I can renew it online or over the phone so I'm off to look at what is next on the list.:whistling:

 

[CraftyCath]

I've just had a look at Octobers book. It looks really interesting and I'm looking forward to reading it.

(Must check the library opening times):rolleyes:

I'm new to Book Club but I think I'm going to like it!:D

 

[KP the nut]

I'll order the Oct book and my next Mitch Rapp book this week. I've made a start on Running with Scissors.

I'm new to Book Club but I think I'm going to like it!:D

I think you will Cath. It certainly makes you read books which you would never choose.

No money to pay unless I'm late taking it back. I can renew it online or over the phone

I know, but I like to own books. H is always on at me to use the library, he does.

 

[anthony]

I read a short book on my kindle app on the iPad... I actually found it ok compared to reading say, PDF's on the iPad. The iPad though was heavy. I think I will eventually get a Kindle to have some books on, though some I will still want in physical copy, ie. sets like Mitch Rapp.

Welcome to bookclub Cath. Yep... I've so far read every book, and not one of them I would have chosen to read otherwise. I even recommend books outside my own comfort, just to enter other genres, of which I am liking in some areas.

 

[CraftyCath]

I have had real trouble tracking down books from the list and the Series books today. I've got some on order at the library but the librarian said she cannot tell me when she will get them in. It could be days, weeks, months or not at all.:(

She also said that books that are made into films just fly off the shelves - they come in and go right out. I can't afford to buy them, even second hand so I just have to wait which means I can't read the thread on the book because of spoilers. So frustrating!:mad:

So I am reading Storm Front (The Dresden Files) by Jim Butcher that the librarian recommended. I like Fantasy and Sci-Fi so she thought I'd like this. It is about Chicago's only Wizard P.I. who advertises in the Yellow Pages!:D It sounds like an interesting and humourous read and I'll probably fly through it as I wait for the other books to come in.

 

[KP the nut]

Next time we meet CC. I will bring you a bundle to read :D. Maybe once the kids go back to school we can meet at Cheshire Oaks again? Or even when our Hs go walking together:eek:.