Denise Coffey Book Recommendations

Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand – A World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption.

                This is an amazingly true story.   

 

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak – About a young girl in 1939 in Nazi Germany whose life is changed forever when she finds a book left by accident in the snow by her brothers graveside.  Unable to read her foster father helps her to read.  Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor’s wife’s library and wherever there are books to be found.    But these are dangerous times.  When her foster family hides a Jew in their basement, he work is both opened up and closed down.

 

Still Alice by Lisa Genova – Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build.  At fifty years old, she a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world renowned expert in linguistics with a successful husband and three grown children.  When she becomes increasingly disoriented and forgetful, a tragic diagnosis of Alzheimer’s changes her life – and her relationship with her family and the world forever. 

Recommended Books

Sarah’s Key

Books I have read by Nora Ward

I keep a list of the books I have read at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Books-read-in-2011/lm/R2V4NQIUVEGT7G/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full

Please feel free to post some of your favorite books in the weeks to come.

Thanks,

Nora

Reflection

The end of the year always brings about reflection for me.

As I think about the books we read this year I remember a story where love was as much a character as the people in the story, I remember a book about the violence that is somehow a part of Africa, a book about women’s friendships, I remember a book about the end of an era in rural Arkansas, a love story, a heartbreak, a historical adventure, a search for what is best for our daughters, a fanciful tale of what witches are really like, and a book about the food that brings people together. All these lovely stories are the stories that helped me track the year go by. They will now forever be associated with 2011 and all the rest of what happened this year.

I love books, they are such an escape and an experience each time. I love sharing my love of books with wonderful inspiring women. So here’s to 2011, may the good reads keep rolling in.

See ya September on to October

I had a great time this past week at book club, so thanks to Jeanne for her home and hospitality, Robin for her lasagna, Denise for her cupcakes, Vara for her salad, Lisa for still loving us, and everybody else not mentioned for always creating a fabulous time.

As we discussed be thinking of a book to put in the hat for December's optional book and bring cash to pay up for any of the books you missed this past year if you still need to get on Lisa's good list.

Movie Night

We are all meeting this evening to see last year's best book of the year turned into a feature film! The Help is playing at 6:30pm at Cinemark on Powers and many of us will be there to check it out. Join us!

Next Month's Meeting

September's book will be Lucia, Lucia: A Novel by Adriana Trigiani. I will be doing an Italian theme in honor of the book and my heritage. I hope I can come up with some good recipes for us to enjoy!