BPO Book Club????? Anyone up for it?

[DixieSugarBear]

Cool, looks like we need to do another vote for the book of the month.  Everyone keep adding to the list and I will put up a poll this week.

Lisa

[DixieSugarBear]

Anyone one know were our book club link went? It use to be under the "just for fun".

Lisa

[newflvr]

Anyone one know were our book club link went? It use to be under the "just for fun".

It's now under "BPO Recommended Reading"

[doggylover]

Geek Love (twisted, some people may not like it)

Blindness (similar to animal farm and 1984) (Jose Saramago)

Case Histories (I just started it last night, it's phenomenal) (Kate Atkinson)

The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)

Diary (Chuck Palahniuk) (same guy that did 'Fight Club' so it's likely weird)

The Things They Carried (O'Brien) (about vietnam, likely a tear jerker, but supposed to be wonderful)

come on board BPO'ers! 

I've read Geek Love and Diary and loved them both, so I'd be up for discussing either.  Actually, anything by Palahniuk would be right up my alley lol!  I also just finished the last Stephanie Plum novel, Twelve Sharp, by Janet Evanovich.

In my 'to read' pile at home:

Nickel and Dimed, by Brbara Ehrenreich
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

The last three are non-fiction, so they might not be interesting to anyone, but I thought I'd throw them out just in case.  I'm a book FREAK!!!

Jenn, ROFL I have NEVER met anyone before who loved 'Geek Love'.  A little tid bit about that story that you might find interesting.  You know how it's totally twisted and depraved?  I have a dear friend who is an English Prof. who met the author at some kind of writing seminar; they ended up having lunch.  He said she was oddly normal.  How weird is that?  She was like a kindergarten teacher, is how he described her; which I found fascinating.  You read that book and you KNOW she is a FREAK, but then you meet her, and...she is so normal.  I LOVE that.  I love people like that...hmmm what does that say about me?

I read Nickel and Dimed and it was GREAT 

[jaspers mom]

I'm also up for Interpreter of Maladies.  I think some of my book picks are yesterday's news.  I need to read so many kid books all year long, I don't get to read the grown-up stuff.

[kathryn]

I don't have any ideas or suggestions for books.  I mainly read mysteries and sci-fi and depending on the fiction books that catch my attention.  I am reading everyone's suggestions and I haven't heard of any of those books.  I am feeling like a doofus at the moment.  But I am up for a challenge.

[jaspers mom]

Sticking with theme, has this book club read Sick Puppy,
by Carl Hiaasen?  It's a mystery and supposed to be good.

[doggylover]

Sticking with theme, has this book club read Sick Puppy,
by Carl Hiaasen?  It's a mystery and supposed to be good.

I tried to read that book like 4 times because it was supposed to be so good, couldn't get past about 10 pages without nodding off!  I'll try again though if that flips y'all's switches though!