My Own Bookclubs



I belong to a neighborhood book group that has been meeting one Wednesday night a month, more or less, since January of 2004. We gather in homes and have a great time together discussing books and, in the process, considering our own lives. When we needed a name recently, for registering with local book stores, we chose … the Wednesday Sisters! Can you tell it’s a really supportive group of friends? You can read more about us on Books on the Brain or at the June 18 post on the Reading Group Guides Blog.

I’ve also been attending the Kepler’s Fiction Book Club since shortly after we moved to Palo Alto. It’s a great, diverse group of people, and the facilitator, the amazing Molly McCall, leads a great discussion. I love it for many reasons, including that it leads me to books I don’t know of or wouldn’t choose on my own. My favorite author Molly has introduced me to: Laurie Colwin.

And I've recently dipped my toes into Margie's 4th Tuesday Book Club at the new Books Inc. Palo Alto location. A great group, and Margie is picking some really interesting reads!

What my neighborhood book group is reading now:
7/08 The Wednesday Sisters! (Like I said, amazingly supportive!)

And our past books:
5/08 Hunting and Gathering by Anna Gavalda
4/08 The Senator’s Wife by Sue Miller
2/08 The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
1/08 The Bad Girl by Mario Vargos Llosa
12/07 Holiday Book Swap!
11/07 Pyres by Derek Nikitas
10/07 Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessl
8/07 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
7/07 The Road by Cormac McCarthy
6/07 The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton
5/07 Searching for Mary Poppins edited by Susan Davis and Gina Hyams
3/07Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
2/07 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
1/07 On Beauty by Zadie Smith
12/06 Holiday Book Swap!
11/06 History of Love by Nicole Krauss
9/06 Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
7/06 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
5/06 Self-Made Man by Norah Vincent
4/06 Intuition by Allegra Goodman
3/06 Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
2/06 Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
1/06 Collected Stories by Grace Paley
12/05 Holiday Book Swap!
11/05 The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
9/05 The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
7/05 The Man Behind the Microchip by Leslie Berlin (who is one of us!)
6/05 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
5/05 The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
4/05 The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2/05 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
1/05 House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
12/04 Holiday Book Swap!
11/04 Three Junes by Julia Glass
9/04 Possession by A.S. Byatt
7/04 Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas
6/04 Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
4/04 The Amateur Marriage by Ann Tyler
3/04 The Language of Light by Meg Waite Clayton
1/04 A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris