Brooke’s Comments (group member since Dec 30, 2015)

Brooke’s comments from the If You Give a Reader a Book... group.

Join us for our book club discussion of classic literature (tba) on Sunday, April 24th at 11:00 a.m.


The day of the discussion, please join us on Zoom at: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9973433429
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Join us for our book club discussion of Magpie Murders by Anthony Harowitz on Sunday, March 27th at 11 a.m.

The day of the discussion, please join us on Zoom at: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9973433429
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Join us to discuss Kindred by Octavia Butler on Sunday, February 27th at 11 a.m.

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Please help me choose our book for February: Black History Month.

Beloved (Toni Morrison)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Someone Knows My Name (Lawrence Hill)
Kindred (Octavia Butler)
Cane River (Lalita Tademy)
Between the World and Me (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
The Water Dancer by (Ta-Nehisi Coates)

Please post your response (with 1 or 2 books you are particularly interested in reading/discussing) by Wednesday, January 19th.

Thank you :-)
Brooke

Sunday, January 23rd at 11 a.m.

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We will meet on Sunday, December 19 at 11 a.m.

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Here's the list of books that are both available (in the library system) and have discussion questions available online:
1) The Christmas List by Richard Paul Evans
2) The Christmas Train by David Baldacci
3) A Redbird Christmas by Fannie Flagg
4) The Christmas Wedding Guest by Susan Mallery

Here's the list of books that are available, but without discussion questions:
5) The Twelve Days of Christmas by Debbie Macomber
6) Santa Cruise by Fern Michaels
7) The Gift by Cecilia Ahern
8) The Gift by Richard Paul Evans

Please let me know your thoughts by Monday (11/22) evening. I will post the book for December by 10 p.m.

Dennis wrote: "October: The Other
November: The Ghost Map"

Dennis,
I'm so sorry I missed this! Only one person had voted over on meetup within a week (and I forgot to check back on here), so finally, I just made the call. Unfortunately, the other person voted for the other two (than what you picked) and that's what we went with. I wonder why the message didn't come to me via email like it normally does....

Anyways, we are reading The Invited and The Underground Girls of Kabul. Hope to see you soon!!

Brooke

We will meet on Sunday, November 21 at 11 a.m.

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We will meet on Sunday, October 24 at 11 a.m.

We will meet face-to-face with an option to join by Zoom.

Please join us at the Panera at: 28551 Schoolcraft, Livonia, MI 48150
or join by Zoom at: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9973433429
Meeting ID: 997 343 3429 Password: 097882

Hi all,

After this morning's book discussion, we narrowed down our choices for the next two months to the following titles. Please take a look and share your thoughts.



October's genre: thriller/ghost stories

1. The Other by Thomas Tryon

2. The Invited by Jennifer McMahon



November's genre: nonfiction

1. The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson

2. The Underground Girls of Kabul by Jenny Nordberg



Thank you,

Brooke

Our read for September is Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. The discussion for this book will be Sunday, September 26th at 11 a.m. at Panera Bread on Schoolcraft in Livonia AND via Zoom. Please join us!! https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9973433429
Meeting ID: 997 343 3429
Password: 097882

Our read for August is memoir and will be When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. The discussion for this book will be Sunday, August 29th at 11 a.m. at Panera Bread on Schoolcraft in Livonia AND via Zoom. Please join us!! https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9973433429
Meeting ID: 997 343 3429
Password: 097882

Our read for July is historical fiction and will be The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate. The discussion for this book will be Sunday, August 1st at 11 a.m. via Zoom ~ https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9973433429
Meeting ID: 997 343 3429
Password: 097882

Due to low usage, Goodreads is doing away with the EVENTS feature. As a result, I'll only be able to post our meetups on the main discussion board for our group. (We can also still be found on Meetup.com by the same name.) If you would like to be notified of our monthly meetups by a personal message (email or text), please let me know the best way to contact you.

Jan. - Literary fiction
Feb. - Celebrating Diversity
Mar. - Mystery/Suspense/Crime fiction
Apr. - Classic literature
May - Young Adult fiction
June - Contemporary fiction/Current Best Sellers
July - Historical fiction
Aug. - Autobiography/Memoir
Sep. - Science fiction/Fantasy
Oct. - Thriller/Horror/Ghostly Tales
Nov. - Non-fiction (not AB or Mem)
Dec. - Holiday/Winter/Family/Inspirational

REVISED 3/21/20:

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Hi, Dennis. I'm going to change this to next weekend - Sunday, March 29th at 11 am. A few people have mentioned they didn't quite finish and although the libraries are all closed, audio and ebooks are still available. I will revise the book club post. I hope you'll still be able to make it!!

Yes! I can't believe I didn't think about this sooner!! We can continue doing video chat even when we get to return to face-to-face meetups. Our next one will be Call of the Wild in April.

I miss you and hope you are doing well :0)

Please join me on Zoom at our regularly scheduled time: Sunday, March 22nd starting at 11:00a.m.

If you are planning on attending the video chat, please send me a response back here or email: bvanrhee4@yahoo.com