Hungry Book Club II

Join Us

The Hungry Book Club meets the Second Friday of the month. Our discussions start with a potluck at 6:00 p.m. There is no official "club" that you have to join. If you are a member or friend of UUFF you are welcome to come to any book club meeting; we would love to have you. This is probably more a social gathering than a serious book club so if you haven't read the book, but would like to get to know folks better that go to UUFF, please join us. For more information , call Kathy (456-3319) or send an email. Our next meeting is:

Friday, March 14: 6:00 pm potluck and discussion of Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky at Julie Webb's, 1196 Marissa (Chena Hills). (Call 458-8191 for directions.)

Booklist for Coming Year

2008
April             The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
May              A Land Gone Lonesome by Dan O'Neill (local author)
June             Blink (The Power of Thinking w/o Thinking) by Malcolm Gladwell
July              Born on a Blue Day (Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant) by Daniel Tammet
August         Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
September  Confessions of an Economic Hitman
October       The Glass Castle
November   Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama
December   Freakanomics

2009
January        A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
February      The Innocent Man by John Grishom (non-fiction)
March           In Defense of Food

Books We've Read

2008

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Jan)
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Jan)

2007

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)

2006

Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan (Nov)
Yank by Ted Ellsworth (Oct)
Walking My Dog, Jane by Ned Rozell (Sept)
(May)
Ordinary Wolves by Seth Kantner (Apr)
The Power of One by Bryce Courtnay (Mar)
(Feb)
(Jan)

2005

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)

2004

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)

2003

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

2002

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

2001

Household Gods Judith Tarrand and Harry Turtledove