What we've read

The Road- Cormac McCarthy

Bartimaeus #1 Amulet of Samarkand - J. Stroud

I Am Legend- Richard Matthieson

A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy

Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz

The Painted Bird - Jerzy Kosignski

The Kite Runner

In Cold Blood-Capote

Portrait of Dorian Gray -Oscar Wilde

Siddhartha- Herman Hesse

Am I forgetting any?

November meeting

The winner is The Gathering by Anne Enright, the winner of the 2007 Booker Prize. We are switching to Katherine's place on Saturday the 22nd. If you've got kittie allergies, I'll bring the Zyrtec. I'll send a separate email to all of you in a few weeks with the address and her phone number. Someone be sure to remind me.

ELD HELL

Help! I'm trapped in ELD HELL.  Training started today, Stevie Nicks (Rice) won't leave me alone and Finucane is in my group.  Just three questions:  How long can I ignore his incessant yammering? How many of those skirts does she own? And how can I retain my sanity? I hope to get some reading in during training; it's my only hope.  Right now it's The Wonder Spot by Melissa Bank (she wrote The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing) Pretty good so far (chap.2).  Happy belated Bday, Steve. The "friendship" cake was great...I hope it's not still sitting on my desk!  I went to the library and checked out a bunch of possible book club reads.  I'm bringing them all on Saturday so be prepared.

next meeting

although I am celebrating steve's birthday all day today (without his knowledge and, well, without him) I thought i would take the time out to ask what time we are meeting on saturday. anyone?

Happy Birthday, Steve. Or is it in March or maybe November...?

Leave me alone. I'm listening to my iPod.

Or I would if it was working. I don't have anything to do with books to post, since I've been spending all day avoiding reading. Instead, the other obsession - music. A guy from work told me about Pandora.com - it's a site that allows you to make radio stations based on your musical preferences. If you hate the song, you give it the hands down and it's never played again. If you like it, thumbs up and the magical little bunnies at Pandora 'learn' and add other artists and songs based on your opinions. It's one of my new favorite things. 

And the other, which is courtesy of the same guy: Kings of Leon. Who said sexy young things never come from Tennessee? These guys apparently lived in my hometown for five years. They, of course, got smart and moved away. Watch the video for Sex on Fire, which they performed on SNL.