Reading Circle

2008 Book List / Schedule

Circle members are encouraged to contribute book reviews of these books. The Reviewer's Guidelines and online Book Review form are here: http://www.storycirclebookreviews.org/becomeareviewer.shtml.

Date	Title	Author	Reader's Guide
01/14/2008	no meeting this month...
02/11/2008	no meeting this month...
03/10/2008	Garlic and Sapphires	Ruth Riechl	Reader's Guide
04/14/2008	Tough Choices: A Memoir	Carly Fiorina	Reader's Guide
05/12/2008	Everyday Sacred	Sue Bender	Reader's Guide
06/09/2008	The Memory Keeper's Daughter	Kim Edwards	Reader's Guide
07/14/2008	Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life	Barbara Kingsolver	Reader's Guide
08/11/2008	Here If You Need Me	Kate Braestrup	Braestrup was an accidental chaplain. Her husband, Drew, a Maine state trooper, died in a car accident at a time when he was considering a second career as an ordained minister. After her shock subsided, Braestrup decided to follow in his footsteps and became a chaplain for the Maine Warden Service, which sets up search-and-rescue missions throughout the state...
09/08/2008	Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia	Elizabeth Gilbert	At the age of thirty-one, Gilbert moved with her husband to the suburbs of New York and began trying to get pregnant, only to realize that she wanted neither a child nor a husband. Three years later, after a protracted divorce, she embarked on a yearlong trip of recovery, with three main stops: Rome, for pleasure (mostly gustatory, with a special emphasis on gelato); an ashram outside of Mumbai, for spiritual searching; and Bali, for "balancing."...
10/13/2008	Circling My Mother (in paperback August, 2008)	Mary Gordon	Short story writer, novelist and memoirist Gordon honors her late mother, Anne. Though she died in 2002, Anne was gradually lost to senile dementia years before, stunting Gordon's grief. Now, she explains, I write about her because I am a writer and it's the only way that I can mourn her. Anne emerges as the progeny of her era.a daughter of working-class Catholic immigrants, a Great Depression survivor plagued by the horror of waste, a stalwart woman who provided for a long succession of family members that couldn't (or sometimes wouldn't) support themselves...
11/10/2008	For Keeps: Women Tell the Truth About Their Bodies, Growing Older, and Acceptance	Victoria Zackheim, editor	For Keeps is an inspirational collection by top women writers on their relationships with their bodies. It explores with awe and intelligence the surprises and challenges of our bodies—whether caused by illness, aging, injury, or life circumstances—that make us rethink the way we see ourselves, and even live our lives. These empowering essays reveal the journeys women take as they age and change in ways both good and bad...
12/08/2008	The Glass Castle	Jeannette Walls	Freelance writer Walls doesn't pull her punches. She opens her memoir by describing looking out the window of her taxi, wondering if she's "overdressed for the evening" and spotting her mother on the sidewalk, "rooting through a Dumpster." Walls's parents.just two of the unforgettable characters in this excellent, unusual book.were a matched pair of eccentrics, and raising four children didn't conventionalize either of them...