It seems Melissa was spying, or maybe she just noticed that a friend who was in another book club had a bookmark that listed all the books the group would read that year. Luckily, anyone who might be reading this doesn’t have to stoop to spying as there are so many sites online that offer book club ideas! Well, our group had limped along long enough. It was time for a list of books for the year. We didn’t change anything about how we chose the books, only that we chose twelve instead of one at a time. Everyone gave a suggestion or two, we looked at some lists and we patched them together. This was the fist bookmark.
The reading list for the year:
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Mists of Avalon by Marianne Zimmer Bradley
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
The Sweet By and By by Todd Johnson