Challenges from Exploding Steamboats discussion

I've been meaning to read The Poisonwood Bible for a long time, so maybe I'll finally get that one knocked out. Or Great Expectations, which I've been slogging through for years now.

This Wikipedia article has a list of the books as well as some discussion of the club itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah&#...

Yeah, I have been meaning to get around to that one too. I can see it on my shelves right now.

I'm going to -Wild-. It actually meets several categories in the challenge, but I'm pretty sure it's the only book club title on my shelf.

I see a few of these on my shelves, including Anna Karenina and one of my goals was to read 5 of the great classics I had never read, so I am leaning towards this one -- except it is long. And Tolstoy. (Give me Solzhenitsyn any day.)

Cheryl wrote: "I see a few of these on my shelves, including Anna Karenina and one of my goals was to read 5 of the great classics I had never read, so I am leaning towards this one -- except it is long. And Tols..."

Good luck with Anna K! I tried it when Oprah announced it, and I even printed out her little bookmark with the character cheat-sheet. But I didn't get very far. I didn't throw the book against the wall, but I did close it with, "Stupid, whiny bitch. Moving on!"

A friend of mine said that Anna was the Russian Scarlett O'Hara -- it is one reason I haven't read the book until now.

Cheryl wrote: "A friend of mine said that Anna was the Russian Scarlett O'Hara -- it is one reason I haven't read the book until now."

I remember quite liking Scarlett. When I was 12.

I chose "Sula" by Toni Morrison because my daughter's friend's name is Sula. The story never clicked for me. It is a brief book, so I haven't really lost anything.

Wild, which also counts for the "recommended by a family member" category

I finished this one on New Year's Eve, with The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.

Yay! This is the one prompt I didn't finish in 2017, so I'm forcing myself to finish it first this year.