The possibilities

This is what our book club considered for next year's reading list. I'm not guaranteeing happiness, but thought other clubs might be interested in our shortlist!

Happy summer reading


Beatrice & Virgil/ Yann Martel

Bonobo Handshake/ Vanessa Woods

Brahma's Dream/ Shree Ghatage

Butterfly /Sonya Hartnett

Death Comes for the Archbishop/ Willa Cather

Five Quarters of the Orange/ Joanne Harris

Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel/ Jeannette Walls

Hitch-22: A Memoir/ Christopher Hitchens

Juliet, Naked/ Nick Hornby

Last Night in Twisted River/ John Irving

Love, Loss and What I Wore/ Ilene Beckerman

Native Son/ Richard Wright

People of the Book/ Geraldine Brooks

The Butcher and the Vegetarian/ Tara Austen Weaver

The Demon-Haunted World/ Carl Sagan

The Elegance of the Hedgehog/ Muriel Barbery

The Forgotten Garden/ Kate Morton

The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet/ Jamie Ford

The Lacuna/ Barbara Kingsolver

The Slap/ Christos Tsiolkas

The True Deceiver/ Tove Jansson

The Unit/ Nini Holmqvist

Three Cups of Tea/ Greg Mortenson

Tweet tweet thou tortoise

And so in June another succesful year of book club wraps up, and we face the bleak prospect of no Velvet cake for 3 months. Our exploration of social media at work is also coming to an end with Twitter as the last topic. Twitter allows short blog posts of up to 140 characters. My main use is to keep up developments in the Harry Potter universe on Mugglenet. This points to it's main attraction- its currency- as opposed to the indexing delay on Google searches. Plus they have great graphics! Anyway, as a wrap up, here are some imagined Tweets:

• Come thou tortoise by Jessica Grant is a hilarious read, similar to A curious incident of the dog in the Night-time, 'tho a few found it quirky
• Flavia's back in The weed that strings the hangman's bag by Alan Bradley (sequel to Sweetness at the bottom of the pie)
• Excellent cake recipes in All cakes considered by Melissa Gray, which my son generously gifted Grandma
• Me talk pretty one day by David Sedaris, wonky true family stories about an American living in France,
• Bill Bryson is a sure thing with his humorous travel essays like Notes from a small island
• Carl Hiaasen is bizarrely funny if you're feeling cranky about the horrible things people do to our environment