Rita

Rita is reading David Brooks's new book The Social Animal and finds it fascinating. She's compelled to read sections of it to everyone around her; The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, which was a very good read about Hemingway and his first wife; recently read The Tiger's Wife and cannot believe that this young author, Tea Obreht could have written such a beautiful novel. All reviewers are echoing the same sentiment. "A fresh new literary voice delivers her stunning debut."-BookPage

Janice

Janice recently read "Weird Sisters" and thouroughly enjoyed these very different siblings, who surround themselves with books for solace and freely quote Shakespeare to make a point. The three sisters ostensibly return home to help their ailing mother, but in fact each has come home to escape a personal crisis. Says Janice, "I loved the sisters' interaction with each other and the narrator's use of the first person plural to place them "in it together" despite their diverse personalities. Maybe you can go home again! Like Rita I also give a 'thumbs up" to "the Tiger's Wife". We still can't stop discussing it.

Heather

Matched by Ally Condie-A suspenseful YA dystopian novel about a world where all choices are made for you by the government.

Erin

Currently reading Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and seeing what makes it such an enduring classic. She is also reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, about an English boarding school where something is terribly wrong, how its students grow up, and what their ultimate purpose is. She is doing her best to finish David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, which is a brilliant struggle through 1000 pages of densely written enlightenment.