Suggestions for Dec/Jan - April

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  1. Karen

    Karen Wiggle it, just a little bit!

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    Let's start our next batch of book club selections by asking for recommendations. Let's keep it to one suggestion per person for now because when I do the poll I can only have 10 choices...

    I will keep this thread open for at least a week or until we get 10 recommendations to vote on. Sound good?

    So... what should we read together for the first 4 months of 2018?

    Suggestions so far:

    1. Behind Closed Doors by B. A. Paris
    2. The Giver by Lois Lowry
    3. The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
    4. You Had Me At Woof by Julie Klam
    5. Britt Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
    6. Stillhouse Lake by Rachel Caine
    7. Notorious by Allison Brennan
    8. A Hundred Small Lessons by Ashley Hay
    9. Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan
    10. Little Broken Things by Nicole Baart
     
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  2. Karen

    Karen Wiggle it, just a little bit!

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  3. jk703

    jk703 CEO of Anything and Everything, Everywhere

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    I'm hoping to get back into things here! I've been reading, but need to broaden my horizons. :)
    Anyone read The Giver or that series? Lois Lowry, I believe. I'm not sure if it's been done before.
     
  4. Karen

    Karen Wiggle it, just a little bit!

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    I read all of those and really liked them all! seems like maybe we even did the Giver here... maybe not as part of the book club, but before that even started. We were talking about another newer dystopian book and how it was super similar to The Giver, so I had to read them both... I'm going to have to go look that up...
     
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  5. jk703

    jk703 CEO of Anything and Everything, Everywhere

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    I'm glad to hear you liked it! I was worried until I read the book blurb, and was intrigued. All because my 7th grader is just starting to read it... so I'm going to start reading along to help him focus and figure out main points, and different ideas/perspectives. (To help from home, helping on of his in-class spec. ed support teachers.)
     
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  6. Karen

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    The other book was Matched by Ally Condie and yes, it was really similar in a lot of ways to Giver, but I enjoyed reading them both and read all of those series. And the year I read it, our school was reading them both too. :)
     
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    bcgal00 Say, "birdseed!"

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    I just reserved this at our library. Heard them talking about it on a sirius radio interview. Sounds like a fun read.
     
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    I read this recently and it was good. I recommend this too.
     
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  9. Karen

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    I have that in my to-read list too
     
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  10. bcgal00

    bcgal00 Say, "birdseed!"

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    Here's one I've reserved to borrow. It's the first in a series of 3.
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    Here's another one that is on my to-read list.
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    bcgal00 Say, "birdseed!"

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    Here's one more on my to-read list. I read the first two books by this author and now am looking forward to reading this third one.
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    londoncuppa I like rain, England ... and big words

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    My IRL book club read it this year too. I completely agree with your assessment!! Good but absolutely disturbing and creepy!
     
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  14. tinkerbell1112

    tinkerbell1112 Offical Ambassador of the Magic Kingdom

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    I need to remember to pop in here more. I just finished a phenomenal book. Was so so funny and also brought me to tears over and over. It's nonfiction. Something I don't typically read and so it took me a few times to attempt it, more so because it's not an easy genre for me to read. But I finally sunk into it Friday and read the whole thing at once!

    You Had Me At Woof by Julie Klam. I was drawn to it because my family loves Bostons. And while the bulk of the dog stories are Boston related,any dog lover will find the humor

    https://www.amazon.com/You-Had-Me-W...1512273019&sr=1-1&keywords=you+had+me+at+woof
     
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  15. bcgal00

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    I like books that have dogs in them too. I'll have to check to see if our library has this.
     
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  16. GlazeFamily3

    GlazeFamily3 Peeking in everyone's windows ...

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    I LOVE The Giver! I am very happy to read it again :)
     
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  17. bellbird

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    my DD an i read the giver series while she was in 5th grade so should be no worries and the movie made a few yrs ago was good as well

    the last one i found suprisingly wonderful and would recommend widely was Britt Marie Was Here - it was released May 2016 so i'm not sure if like everyone had already read it but me, but it was a stand out for me this year and i think the author might be known to others for A Man called Ove (which i havet read ... yet)
     
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  18. bellbird

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    Also if we could pick a short book for Jan. i think that would be great with MOC!
     
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    janedee Is a craft project ever really finished?

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  20. Karen

    Karen Wiggle it, just a little bit!

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    I totally agree! When we vote, I'll pick whichever one is shortest from the top four for January. :agree
     
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