PrincetonBooks: February 2008

Blindness is the book planned for our next meeting, 4/1/08, at Krysia's. Ann will feed us!

Books We've Read

5/29/18 A Gentleman in Moscow @Cindy/Mary Lynn
4/10/18 Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo @Mary Lynn/Ann
3/1/18 Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi @Ann/Kathy
1/16/18 Rules of Civility @Kathy/Jenny
11/28/17 Portable Veblen @Jenny/Cindy
10/30/17 The Last Painting of Sara deVos by Dominic Smith @Cinday/Ann
9/27/17 Everything I Never Told You by Celeste NG @Melinda/Krysia
8/30/17 Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi @Krysia/Melinda
6/1/17 Some Luck by Jane Smiley @Ann/Mary Lynn
4/7/17 The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead @Mary Lynn/Kathy
3/7/17 Commonwealth by Ann Patchett @Kathy/Melinda
1/31/17 Nora Webster by Colm Toibin @Melinda/Jenny
12/8/16 Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue @Jenny/Krysia
10/10/16 Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld @Krysia/Cindy
8/30/16 The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald @Cindy/Jenny
6/20/16 The Buried Giant by @Jenny/Mary Lynn
4/26/16 The Door by Magda Szabo @Mary Lynn/Ann
3/22/16 The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald @Ann/Kathy
2/24/16 The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen @Kathy/Cindy
12/2/15 The Sense of An Ending by Julian Barnes @Melinda
1/20/16 Vanessa and Her Sister by Priya Parmar @Cindy/Krysia
12/12/12 The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce @Cindy/Ann
10/29/15 Our Souls at Night by @Melinda/Jenny
9/30/15 Free Choice @ Jenny/Ann
8/24/15 The Vacationers by Emma Straub @Ann/Cindy
7/13/15 The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal @Cindy/Krysia
5/2/15 Euphoria by Lily King @Krysia/Kathy
4/21/15 Department of Speculation by Jenny Offill @Kathy/Melinda
3/10/15 The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson @Melinda/Jenny
1/20/15 All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr @Jenny/Ann
11/18/14 The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri @Ann/Krysia
10/14/14 Binocular Vision by Edith Perlman @Krysia/Cindy
9/17/14 Bittersweet by Miranda Beverly-Whittemore @Cindy/Kathy
7/7/14 We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler @PPL Organize
4/14 The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett @Kathy/Jenny
3/2/14 The Grief of Others @Melinda/Kathy
2/4/14 Home by Toni Morrison @Ann/Ann
12/14/13 Post Birthday World by Lionel Shriver @Krisha/Melinda
10/9/13 Invisible Bridge @Kathy/Jenny
8/8/13 The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer @Cindy/Krysia
6/24/13 Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver @Jenny/Melinda
5/8/13 The Red House by Mark Haddon @ Ann
3-4/13 (?) The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka @ Melinda/everyone
2/19/13 book buffet @Krysia/Cindy
1/23/13 Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon @Jenny/Melinda
10/23 12 The Summer without Men by Siri Hustvedt @Kathy/Jenny&Ann
9/18/12 The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides @Krysia
7/23/12 The Cookbook Collector @Jenny/
6/5/12 The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker @Jenny/Melinda
4/11/12 Private Life by Jane Smiley @Krysia/Melinda
Swamplandia by Karen Russell
1/25/12 Free Choice book @Melinda/Jenny
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
Driftless by David Rhodes @Ann/Krysia
10/4/11 The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa @Jenny/Cindy
8/16/11 The Lakeshore Limited by Sue Miller @Cindy/Kathy
Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich @Melinda (Jenny)
Family Album by Penelope Lively @Krysia (Ann)
Nemesis by Philip Roth @ Ann
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake @Melinda (Krysia)
2/22/11 Mudbound by Hilary Jordan @Jenny (Lisa)
1/18/11 Three Weissmans of Westport
11/16/10 Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese @Kathy (Krysia)
10/18/10 Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
9/10/10 The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
Little Bee by Chris Cleave
The Last Chinese Chef by Nicole Mones
3/10/10 Man in the Dark by Paul Auster @Ann (Cindy)
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
1/12/10 The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid @Jenny (Melinda)
The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson @Ann (Jenny)
The Wedding by Dorothy west @Lisa (Ann)
7/29/09 The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen Carter @Melinda (Lisa)
The Song is You by Arthur Phillips @Lisa (Cindy)
4/29/09 The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich @Jenny (Krysia)
3/31/09 Wandering Star by J.M.G. LeClezio @Krysia (Melinda)
2/10/09 Run by Ann Patchett @Kathy (Ann)
12/10/08 The Maytrees by Annie Dillard @Melinda (Jenny)
10/29/08: Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo @Jenny (Melinda)
9/9/08: Love Falls @Ann (Lisa)
7/8/08: Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee @ Cindy (Kathy)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz: 5/13 @ Melinda (Krysia)
Blindness by Jose Saramago: 4/1 @ Krysia (Ann)
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan: 2/19/08 @ Lisa (Melinda)
Salt Dancers by Ursula Hegi :1/16/08 @ Kathy (Jenny)
The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon: 11/14 @ Ann's (Melinda snack)
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr (10/07 @ Cindy's; Kathy snack)
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (8/14/07)
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Memory of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Dalva by Jim Harrison
Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Happenstance by Carol Shields
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Alibi by Joseph Kanon
The Sunday Wife by Cassandra King
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Hedwig and Berti by Frieda Arkin
The War Between the Tates by Alison Lurie
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
The Sea by John Banville
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Billy By Albert French
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Washington Square by Henry James
You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon
Hard Laughter by Anne Lamott
Continental Drift by Russell Banks
Gilgamesh by Joan London
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffennegger
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
Mohawk by Richard Russo
The Pine Barrens by John McPhee
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts by Louis de Bernieres
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobol
The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Native Speaker by Chang Rae-Lee
Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
Thinks by David Lodge
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
Swift as Desire by Laura Esquivel
Back When We Were Grown-Ups by Anne Tyler
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

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