Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

Can't possibly be as fun as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but check out the trailer for the book!

Holiday Read

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Holidays are coming! We'll have spare time! How about something thick and challenging? War and Peace? Infinite Jest? No? How about one of these:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

City of Thieves by David Benioff

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Somebody Else

West with the Night by Beryl Markham

Polls close Wednesday at 5

Holiday Reads
	Dragon Tattoo
	Thieves
	Night
	Zombies
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The Road

Any volunteers to write a nice review? Who read the book?

What, no votes?

Some people have voiced an interest in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. On sale now at Costco. Available in Paperback.

I'm adding it to the list:

New Variety
	Mad Science
	Ender's Game
	Road
	Zombies
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No witty title.

Got an opinion? Then here are our choices for the next great read. Polls close Monday at 5pm

Theo Gray's Mad Science.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy. This one could come with a November movie night!!!

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Your choices
	Ender's Game
	The Road
	Mad Science
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New Lorrie Moore Novel: A Gate at the Stairs

Check out the review in Newsweek.

"Is there a point beyond which a fiction writer is merely punishing his or her readers? We pay lip service to the idea that we learn from novels and stories, that they have life lessons to teach us. Some do, but most of the time, the bargain we strike with fiction is much humbler: is the payoff worth the pain? Is what we take from a story or novel commensurate with or, if we're lucky, greater than what it takes out of us? Moore delivers a lot in this hard-knocks coming-of-age novel. But making the acquaintance of the unforgettable Tassie is such an exhausting, punishing experience that you finish the book wondering if it was worth the trouble."

Doesn't it make you want to give her another try?

How about this from the Chronicle?

Anything by Lee Child

Insert nice review. Volunteers?

Reviews of Some of Our Favourites

Check out these 3 Panel Reviews of some of our past favourites.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

and

A Room with a View

Lathe of Heaven

Insert nice review here

Summer Reading Time!

Okay, it's been a L O N G time since I've posted a poll... lets see if I can figure it out!

Our choices are:

1. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
2. "On Speed: The Many Lives of Amphetamine" by Nicolas Rasmussen
3. Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child

(mainly in case I can't figure out the poll right...)

Now, for the poll... (fingers crossed this works)

July Reading?
	The Corrections
	On Speed
	Gone Tomorrow
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HOPE

We've had a run of real stinkers. (Those who disagree can write glowing reviews for the blog). Keep hope alive! Vote for one of the following by Monday, 5pm. Then I'll see you in 6 weeks.

The Girls from Ames

The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

The Ghost Map

Can we pick a good book?
	Girls from Ames
	Lathe of Heaven
	Elegance of Hedgehog
	Ghost Map
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Arrowsmith

It's been four months and nobody's found anything positive to say about Arrowsmith. Not even Einat. I didn't even manage to make it as far as the exploding research lab. I think that pretty much says it all.

So many choices!

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Please vote for our next read by Monday, 5pm. Let's meet again in 6 weeks, Wednesday April 29. Maybe we'll get to meet our newest member, Malcolm???????

My Booky Wook: A memoir of sex, drugs and stand-up
by Russell Brand

Dress your family in corduroy and denim by David Sedaris

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis

If you were to actually read a book for bookclub, it would be:
	Booky Wook
	Corduroy and Plaid
	Beauty
	Arrowsmith
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Corduroy Manions

Someone with something interesting to say will insert fabulous review here.

Or else I'll do it.

Wait, Wait in Berkeley

Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me in Berkeley and only 2 of us can make it? Click on the link above to catch the show on-line.

Those Fundamentalist Mormons....

Last week's This American Life included an interesting story about those FLDS Mormons we read about in Under the Banner of Heaven. Check it out.

See you next week at Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

A Third Possible Choice

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Something new from one of our favourite local authors. Be prepared to discuss at our next meeting.

Everybody at the Imaging Short Course?

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There weren't a lot of suggestions for our next read. Sometimes that works out really well.

Our suggestions are:

Corduroy Mansions - an online novel Alexander McCall Smith

Funny in Farsi by Firoozeh Dumas

Vote for the book by Wednesday 5pm and don't forget to vote for the date:

book or e-book?
	Corduroy Mansions
	Funny in Farsi
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When shall we meet again?

So, we have two tasks: pick a date and pick a book.

E-mail WOVFAB-Book-Club@googlegroups.com with your suggestions by Friday, 5pm.

While you're at it, vote on our next meeting date:

Pick a date
	February 25
	March 11
	March 18
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Thoughts on Rebecca

Insert your review here!