UUFF’s Hungry Book Club will meet at 6pm at Susan Fox’s home (directions follow) to discuss “Mindless Eating” by Brian Wansink. This will be a potluck as usual. The book we will be reading for the November 13 meeting will be “Blue Zones” by Dan Buettner. The book club is open to all. Reading the book is recommended, but is not a requirement. Read More »
UUFF’s Hungry Book Club will be reading the following books starting in April 2009 in the order listed. It is up to each member to acquire the books for each month. Hosts will be announced several weeks before each meeting. Call Kathy (456-3319) or contact us if you would like to host the book club meeting one month. Read More »
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (Mar)
The Innocent Man by John Grishom (non-fiction) (Feb)
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (Jan)
Freakanomics (Dec)
Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama (Nov)
The Glass Castle (Oct)
Confessions of an Economic Hitman (Sep)
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (Aug)
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet (Jul)
Blink: The Power of Thinking w/o Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell (Jun)
A Land Gone Lonesome by Dan O’Neill (local author) (May)
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (Apr)
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky (Mar)
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Feb)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Jan)
Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup (Dec)
The Kids from Nowhere by George Guthridge (Nov)
Flight by Sherman Alexi (Oct)
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson with David Oliver Relin (Aug and Sept)
1421: The Year China Discovered America (Jul)
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (Jun)
Cold Country (May)
(No book for April)
Mutant Messages Down Under by Marlo Morgan (Mar)
Housekeeping by Marilyn Robinson (Feb)
March by Geraldine Brooks (Jan)
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan (Nov)
Yank by Ted Ellsworth (Oct)
Walking My Dog, Jane by Ned Rozell (Sept)
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Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner (Apr)
The Power of One by Bryce Courtnay (Mar)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Hadden (Dec)
The Kite Runner (Nov)
#1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith (Oct)
Alaskan’s Die Young by UUFF author Susan Johnson (Jun)
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A citizen’s guide to hope in a time of fear, Paul Rogat Loeb, ed.
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops (Feb)
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Jan)
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson (Dec)
Murder on the Yukon by Sue Henry (Nov)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Oct)
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (Sep)
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines (Jul)
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monke Kidd (Jun)
So Many Enemies, So Little Time by Professor Elinor Burkett (May)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Apr)
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown (Mar)
Naked in Baghdad (Feb)
The Ecumenical Cruise and Other Three-Legged Chicken Tales by Walter Benesch (Jan)
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feinman by Richard Feinman
Red China Sea by Jan Wong
Tuck Everlasting (video)
Daughter of Fortune by Isabelle Allende
LAMB: The Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore
Kinship of All Things: The Bond Between All Living Things by Latham Foundation
The Loop by Nicholas Evans
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Good Omens by Neil Gaimon and Terry Pratchett
A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle
Who Am I This Time?A short story by Kurt Vonnegut
A Painted House by Michael Doogan
The Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita
Fairbanks: The Gold Rush Town that Beat the Odds by Dermot Cole
Through the Eye of the Glacier by Michael Pollen
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
A Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel
Reading the Water
Bless Me Ultima by Anaya
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
84 Charring Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Household Gods Judith Tarrand and Harry Turtledove
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