Not dead yet

Contrary to popular reports, the book club is not yet dead. In fact, we have two great suggestions for our next read.

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand

Voting closes Friday, 5pm. Please vote at the Wovfab website

What shall we all pretend to read?
	Oscar Wao
	Seabiscuit
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What next book?

The last shorts stories had their likers and their haters. However, both groups agreed that these stories were really weird.
Now it is time to select another book. Please choose between the two following:

The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
and Bonk by Mary Roach

what book?
	the midwitch cuckoos
	Bonk
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Too nice a day to be indoors....

but here we all are. And I am going to need a good book for some cottage reading. OK, what I really need is an impressive cover to disguise the tripe I'm really reading. The choices are:

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner

Voting closes Friday, 4pm. Meeting will be the week of August 20.

Good Book Covers!
	Hemingway
	O'Connor
	Stegner
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Empire of the Ants

I'm not writing a review on Empire of the Ants. Didn't finish it. Couldn't finish it. Or perhaps more accurately, won't finish it. I learned all I needed from the discussion at Monday's meeting. It was slow and the ending predictable but there might be enough creepy insects and gore to entice the 11 year old.

Looking for Ants?

Days before the big spring picnic, we've chosen to read about ants? I don't get it.

But our newest reader, Cherise, tells me there a 20% off sale at Half Price Books this weekend. Looking to save a buck?

Too Early for Beach Reading?

Doesn't look like we've got any action or romance in this month's suggestions. OK, at least no happily ever after. Guess we'll save that for summer.

Our suggestions are:

Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber

Where the Air Is Clear by Carlos Fuentes

Tomatoland by Barry Estabrook

Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman

Polls close Monday at 6pm. Meeting week of June 25.

You've got 6 weeks. How will you spend it?
	Empire of Ants
	Air Is Clear
	Tomatoland
	Say Her Name
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So, what did we think of The Tempest? From what I hear of the discussion, the tequila was good. I guess we'll have to see the CalShakes version to know if we liked it or not.