Roadtown Reads Book Club

The Shutesbury book club is a group of readers who enjoy reading and talking about books and more. We welcome everyone, from any town, whether you can make all the meetings or just one. Meetings are monthly from September to May, books are fiction and nonfiction. Instructions on joining the Yahoo group to receive book club emails are below.

 

RoadTown Reads 2012-2013

 

The book club meets on alternating Monday and Wednesday evenings, usually the first week of each month. The meeting usually begins at 7:30 pm. In December and May the meeting will begin at 7:00 to allow extra time for the potluck meals.

Date: Monday, October 8th
Host: Laura Walton
The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared by Alice Ozma

Date: Wednesday, November 7th
Host: Holly Armitage
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Eric Larson

Date: Monday, December 10th
*Potluck meal 7:00 pm start-time
Host: Chris Warren
My Life in France by Julie Child

Date: Wednesday, January 9th
Host: Weezie Houle
Monkeys by Susan Minot

Date: Monday, February 4th
Host: Liz Armstrong
The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband by David Finch

Date: Wednesday, March 6th
Host: Sarah Killion
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah Moggach

Date: Monday, April 8th
Host: Debbie Myers
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

Date: Wednesday, May 8th
*Indian inspired Potluck meal 7:00 pm start-time
Host: Lauren Holt
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese



Suggested books that were not chosen.

Non-fiction
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West by Dorothy Wickenden

The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok

The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball

Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah

American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow

Carly's Voice: Breaking Through Autism by Arthur Fleischmann and Carly Fleischmann

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo

What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self by Ellyn Spragins

Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan

Fiction
The Time In Between: A Novel By Maria Duenas

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Evening by Susan Minot

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin

Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin
Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin

Still Alice by Lisa Genova

The Lace Reader: A Novel by Brunonia Barry

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

 

 



   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 See 2010-11 books here

 

Joining the Yahoo Book Club Group - RoadTownReads

Announcements regarding the book club meeting information are sent to members of a Yahoo group. Join this group if you wish to receive meeting date information by clicking on the link below:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/roadtownreads/

Click the blue button on the upper right: Join This Group.
If you do not already have a Yahoo Id, create one.
Set your preferences:

1) Contact information
2) How you want to receive each message sent by members or a daily digest of the day's traffic
3) Your message preference.

Then enter the encrypted text in the box and click the blue button:  Join

That's it! You will now receive information about book club meetings!