Book Club for Writers
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How does the Book Club for Writers differ from other book clubs? For starters, the group doesn’t so much discuss the book as dissect it. Members want to discover what it is about the writing itself that makes the book work or, in some cases, not work. Also, we consider how we can “borrow” the author’s techniques for our own writing. Disagreements abound and are always part of the fun, as is the food. For example, we downed grilled cheese sandwiches during our discussion of In the Deep Midwinter, in which the characters indulge in 1950s comfort food.
Book Club for Writers Reboot
We have planned a three-month trial of book club as we determine how to better run meetings so we are truly discussing the writing. Five details to know about the new book club:
Writing Questions for Discussion We want our discussions to be on writing issues (an unusual structure, perhaps the use of quirky characters, choice of point of view, use of short chapters, dialogue that is fantastic.) Think of potential questions as "Why did the writer…"questions. Why did the writer choose to tell this story from the perspective of a male narrator? Why did the writer have so many characters (was it too many?) Next Book Club Meeting May 24 (Tue) 4:30-6 p.m. Hosts: Ethan and Rebecca Joella Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan Facilitator: Gail Comorat gailcomorat@comcast.net Sign Up To Attend All slots are filled for the May book club, but we are keeping a waitlist. If you would like to attend, please email fischer.maribeth@gmail.com. A slot may open, and we would like to know how much interest there is in book club to schedule future events. Meeting Discussion Questions for Small Things Like These Click here to view a list of questions that will be discussed at the meeting. |
The Writers’ Book Club A writer is a reader moved to emulation If you don’t have the time to read, you don’t have the time or the tools to write 
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Books We Have Read Since April 2009
NONFICTION
The Recovering by Leslie Jamison
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
Educated by Tara Westover.
Draw Your Weapons, Sarah Sentilles
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson. (Rehoboth Reads chosen book)
The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison (creative nonfiction)
The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown (August 2016)
I Could Tell you Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory.Before Night Falls, Patricia Hampl,
Winter Journal, Paul Auster
For the Time Being, Annie Dillard
She’s Not There, Jennifer Finley-Boylan
The Big Sea. Langston Hughes
Local Wonders, Ted Kooser
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
Everybody Was so Young: The Love Story of Gerald and Sara Murphy, Amanda Viall
The Suicide Index, Joan Wickersham
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World. Anthony Doerr
Wild. Cheryl Strayed
Let Me Finish, Richard Angell
In the Garden of the Beasts, Erik Larsen
POETRY
Bright Dead Things, by Ada Limon
Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser
Here, Bullet by Brian Turner
Necessary Light by Patricia Fargnoli
This Bed Our Bodies Shaped by April Lindner
Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher
Fast Animal by Tim Siebles
They by Sue Ellen Thompson,
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
We Live in Water, Jess Walters
The Queen of the Tambourine, Jane Gardam
The Things They Carried, Tim O’ Brien
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannary O’ Connor
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
We Live in Water, Jess Walters (July 2016)
Angel On My Chest, Leslie Pietrzyk (March 2016)
NOVELS
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Being Dead is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral by Gayden Metcalfew and Charlotte Hays
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owen
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
The Hundred Year House by Rebecca Makkai.
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nick Flynn
The Green Road, Anne Enright
My Antonia, Willa Cather
The Speed of Light, ELizabeth ROsner
How Starbucks Saved my Life, Michael Gates
Silver Girl, Leslie Pietrzyk
Me Before You, Jo Jo Moyes.
The Turner House, Angela Flournoy.
The Animals, Christian Kiefer
Station 11, Emily St. John Mandel.
A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler.
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven, Chris Cleeve
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
Mayhem. Robert Janes
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Transatlantic, Colum McCann (2016)
The Association of Small Bombs, Karan Kahajan
Vanessa and her Sister, Priya Parmor
Last Night at the Lobster, Stewart O’ Nan (May 2016)
Worth Dying For, Lee Child,
Euphoria, Lily King.
All the Light We Cannot See,Anthony Doerr.
Trans-Sister Radio, Chris Bohjahan.
Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
An Officer and a Spy
Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks
The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister,
City of Light, Lauren Belfer
Kindred, Olivia Butler
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
In the Deep Mid-Winter, Robert Clark
Little Bee, Chris Cleve
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
In the Woods, Tana French
Hide, Lisa Gardner
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
A Lazarus Project Aleksandar Hemon
And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
Someone Else’s Love Story, Joshilyn Jackson
The Dead, James Joyce
A Short History of Tractors in Ukraine, Marina Lewycka
I’d Know You Anywhere, Laura Lippman
Martin Dressler, Steven Milhauser
The Husband’s Secret, Liane Moriarity
The Paris Wife, Paula McCain
The Giant’s House, Elizabeth McCracken
Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Skin of the Lion, Michael Ondaatje
The Cats Table, Michael Ondaatje
Lark and Termite, Jayne Anne Phillips
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
Every Last One, Anna Quindlan
Look Again, Lisa Scottoline
Rules of Civility, Amor Towles
Crossing to Safety, Wallage Stegner
Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter
The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
Evening, Susan Minot
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kunder
PLAYS
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
NONFICTION
The Recovering by Leslie Jamison
Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
Educated by Tara Westover.
Draw Your Weapons, Sarah Sentilles
Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson. (Rehoboth Reads chosen book)
The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison (creative nonfiction)
The Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown (August 2016)
I Could Tell you Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory.Before Night Falls, Patricia Hampl,
Winter Journal, Paul Auster
For the Time Being, Annie Dillard
She’s Not There, Jennifer Finley-Boylan
The Big Sea. Langston Hughes
Local Wonders, Ted Kooser
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott
Everybody Was so Young: The Love Story of Gerald and Sara Murphy, Amanda Viall
The Suicide Index, Joan Wickersham
Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World. Anthony Doerr
Wild. Cheryl Strayed
Let Me Finish, Richard Angell
In the Garden of the Beasts, Erik Larsen
POETRY
Bright Dead Things, by Ada Limon
Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser
Here, Bullet by Brian Turner
Necessary Light by Patricia Fargnoli
This Bed Our Bodies Shaped by April Lindner
Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher
Fast Animal by Tim Siebles
They by Sue Ellen Thompson,
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
We Live in Water, Jess Walters
The Queen of the Tambourine, Jane Gardam
The Things They Carried, Tim O’ Brien
A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannary O’ Connor
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout
We Live in Water, Jess Walters (July 2016)
Angel On My Chest, Leslie Pietrzyk (March 2016)
NOVELS
Virgil Wander by Leif Enger
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Being Dead is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide to Hosting the Perfect Funeral by Gayden Metcalfew and Charlotte Hays
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Meet Me at the Museum by Anne Youngson
Do Not Become Alarmed by Maile Meloy
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owen
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
The Hundred Year House by Rebecca Makkai.
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, Nick Flynn
The Green Road, Anne Enright
My Antonia, Willa Cather
The Speed of Light, ELizabeth ROsner
How Starbucks Saved my Life, Michael Gates
Silver Girl, Leslie Pietrzyk
Me Before You, Jo Jo Moyes.
The Turner House, Angela Flournoy.
The Animals, Christian Kiefer
Station 11, Emily St. John Mandel.
A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler.
Everyone Brave Is Forgiven, Chris Cleeve
State of Wonder, Ann Patchett
Mayhem. Robert Janes
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Transatlantic, Colum McCann (2016)
The Association of Small Bombs, Karan Kahajan
Vanessa and her Sister, Priya Parmor
Last Night at the Lobster, Stewart O’ Nan (May 2016)
Worth Dying For, Lee Child,
Euphoria, Lily King.
All the Light We Cannot See,Anthony Doerr.
Trans-Sister Radio, Chris Bohjahan.
Peter Heller, The Dog Stars
An Officer and a Spy
Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks
The School of Essential Ingredients, Erica Bauermeister,
City of Light, Lauren Belfer
Kindred, Olivia Butler
The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros
In the Deep Mid-Winter, Robert Clark
Little Bee, Chris Cleve
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Offshore, Penelope Fitzgerald
In the Woods, Tana French
Hide, Lisa Gardner
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
A Lazarus Project Aleksandar Hemon
And the Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini
Someone Else’s Love Story, Joshilyn Jackson
The Dead, James Joyce
A Short History of Tractors in Ukraine, Marina Lewycka
I’d Know You Anywhere, Laura Lippman
Martin Dressler, Steven Milhauser
The Husband’s Secret, Liane Moriarity
The Paris Wife, Paula McCain
The Giant’s House, Elizabeth McCracken
Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Skin of the Lion, Michael Ondaatje
The Cats Table, Michael Ondaatje
Lark and Termite, Jayne Anne Phillips
The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
Every Last One, Anna Quindlan
Look Again, Lisa Scottoline
Rules of Civility, Amor Towles
Crossing to Safety, Wallage Stegner
Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter
The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates
Evening, Susan Minot
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kunder
PLAYS
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
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