Collegedale Public Library discussion

September is just around the corner. The categories for September are:
1. A Southern Author

2. We are changing book selected by anonymous participant to a banned book since banned book week is September 25-October 1

3. A book about a hero

4. a book with a blue cover

Hopefully, this month's choices will not be as challenging as last months were!

My choices for the month are:

Southern author: This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash Completed 9/17/16

Banned book: Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene Completed 9/15/16

Book about a hero: Before the Fall by Noah Hawley (audio) Completed 9/15/16

Book with a blue cover: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Completed 9/8/16

Of course if I write it here, it's almost guaranteed to change. But this is what I'm thinking:
1. Arsenic and old books.
2. Haven't thought of that one yet.
3. Ditto.
4. Ditto.
Okay, so I haven't put a lot of thought into it. I'll get back to you all.

Can I get elaboration on what we consider a hero? Nontraditional stuff-in other words, no super hero, politician or sports personality. Can it be someone we look up to or admire? Or a fiction book where characters find that in another character?

Thanks for changing to banned book. Much more palatable.

Nikki wrote: "Can I get elaboration on what we consider a hero? Nontraditional stuff-in other words, no super hero, politician or sports personality. Can it be someone we look up to or admire? Or a fiction book ..."

Looking at the suggestions on the paper, it is open to all the interpretation you want.

I think it can be a hero in fiction, someone you personally admire, or anyone considered to be a hero. Monkey Paul put some weird ones on the challenge paper (Michael Keaton?), so it seems like anything would go.

Tentative list:
Southern author: Serena by Ron Rash
Banned Book: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck ( This might be ambitious but I LOVED East of Eden so am going to try it).
Hero: ???
Blue cover: Looking for Lovely by Annie F. Downs

Banned book: [book:The Awakening
Blue cover: Bossypants

Blue cover-written by Annie F. Downs (saw the error tonight)

Blue book: Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story
Southern author: The Violent Bear it Away

Still thinking about the banned book, and tragically there are no books on Michael Keaton, so I'll have to ruminate on the hero category as well.

Monkey Paul wrote: "Blue book: Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story
Southern author: The Violent Bear it Away

Still thinking about the banned book, and tragically there are no books on Mic..."

Was birdman a book?

Blue book: The old man & the sea.
Banned: kama sura.
Hero: zorro.

Just found the perfect hero book! The Movement: How I got this body by never going to the gym in my life.

It's the incredible true story of Jack Garbarino, a formerly self-proclaimed "tub of lard" who lost weight by simply moving household items. He even helps jungle children, and was inspired by a young child named Dandi, who unfortunately was kidnapped and eaten by baboons. I hope I don't cry while reading this!

Paul-you realize that totally sounds made up, right?

Here's proof!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLYuD...

Monkey Paul wrote: "Here's proof!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLYuD..."

Proof if exists doesn't equal proof that it's not made up ;)

Malissa wrote: "Monkey Paul wrote: "Here's proof!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLYuD..."

Proof if exists doesn't equal proof that it's not made up ;)"

How DARE you question this man's integrity! Do YOU volunteer to help jungle children?

No, Paul. No I do not.

Looked up his website. He's real. Looks a little like Kojak. I'd rather be helping poor & needy TN children

Having to switch southern author. Serena looks too grim for now. Read too many dark, heavy books lately. Not sure about Grapes of Wrath yet either. Is there a banned book that isn't dark and grim?

Nikki wrote: "Having to switch southern author. Serena looks too grim for now. Read too many dark, heavy books lately. Not sure about Grapes of Wrath yet either. Is there a banned book that isn't dark and grim?"

Harry potter & the philosophers stone.

"Wrath" is dark and grim...How about Catcher in the Rye? It's a little dark, in the end, but it's a very funny book...Catch 22? The Da Vinci Code? Frankenstein? Green Eggs and Ham?
Google "Banned Books" for a Wikipedia list. Have a lovely day.

How about Holes, A Wrinkle in Time, or The Great Gatsby?

Brontë fans will want to read my blue book selection The Madwoman Upstairs. Our Crimereads selection for September filled the southern author category with Nature Girl.

Thanks everyone. Great suggestions. I've read many of them already (Potter, Gatsby, Green Eggs, Catcher, Frankenstein), but I may look at Holes or Wrinkle. Nothing beats juvenile/YA for a quick read.

Finished yesterday.

BLUE COVER: Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story (Surprisingly entertaining book about the death and life of a satellite system. Bloom excels at deriving amusement from the absurdities in life.)

BANNED BOOK: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Only took 16 years to finish. I think the illustrated edition with the purdy pictures made it easier.)

HERO: Captain Marvel (Marvel NOW!) #1 (Generic comic graphic novel with some fun cameos by the Guardians of the Galaxy)

SOUTHERN AUTHOR: Bad Monkey (The "heroic" character is reprimanded for sodomizing a plastic surgeon with a common household appliance. I think I like Hiaasen.)

Blue cover: Looking for Lovely by Annie F. Downs.

Banned book: Holes by Louis Sachar (Definitely an odd book. Can any of you YA folks tell me what the message is?)

Southern author: Double Strike by Gretchen Archer

Hero: The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B by Teresa Toten (This was great. About OCD, teen support groups, hoarding. Male protagonist. Would be great physical addition to our collection if we don't own it).