Our book for June will be Of Woman Born by Adrienne Rich.

Our book for July will be What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies.

First off, please remember to vote in the June selection poll. Voting closes tomorrow at noon EST.

Anyway, I finished reading Guards! Guards! over the weekend, and I suspect I have a developed a mild case of Pratchett fatigue.

This is the fourth Discworld novel that I've read in the past month or so, the others being Soul Music, Witches Abroad, ( Read more... )

Hello all,

Any suggestions for our June book? I'd love to read something that's new for as many people as possible. Is there something on your to-read list that you'd love an excuse to jump to? Let us know.

As usual, I'll take suggestions for a few days and put up the voting poll shortly.

I was very pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed Persepolis.

I had read general descriptions about the book before starting it, but I wasn't prepared for it to be so much a family story. That is, I expected tales from her childhood, but I didn't expect them to be so closely framed by her interactions with her family and friends. In retrospect ( Read more... )

Our book for May will be Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards!.

Hello, your trusty flaky neighborhood mod is checking in. Does anyone have suggestions for our May book? Please leave them in the comments and I'll put up the usual poll.

I've been thinking about something upbeat or humorous--how about David Sedaris or Terry Pratchett?

My copy of Persepolis just came in at the library, so I hope to be posting on ( Read more... )

Hey, so it looks like I'm the first one posting on this book... I have tons of work to do this week (and I was swamped with other activities this past weekend), but I had to return the book today, so I wanted to write a few quick thoughts before I forgot them...

Basically, I really liked Persepolis, it was kind of like "Maus-light" (and set in ( Read more... )

Our book for April is Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi.

Hey all - I don't know if it's time yet to talk about "Castle of Crossed Destinies" by Italo Calvino (That's this month's book, right?)

Anyway, in order to get the discussion started, here are my thoughts:
( My thoughts... for what they're worth... cut-tagged for length and possibly spoilers )

Jumping in with a quick post on Tooth and Claw before we start on the next book ( Read more... )