Adult Summer Reading Club 2017

Autobiography or Memoir - Hunger
Graphic Novel or Comic Book  - Amulet
Young Adult/Juvenile -  Library of Souls
Banned or Challenged Book  -  Lives of Girls and Women
Published in the Decade You Were Born  - Salem's Lot
By An Author of a Different Gender  - Moloka'i
Adapted From or Into a Movie - The Hobbit
A Genre You Don't Normally Read - Spider Bones
Something You Read During Adolescence  - Island of the Blue Dolphins
Originally Published Outside North America - Lion

Book Club - The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

"He had a horrible thought that the cakes might run short, and then he - as the host; he knew his duty and stuck to it however painful - he might have to go without."

"He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait."


For Adult Summer Reading Club - Adapted From Or Into A Movie

Book Club - Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

"They could see Ruth's eyes on them and know that they were the first things she had seen in this life; and they could hope that some part of her might remember that."

"Aloha wale, e Rachel, kaua, auwe!

For Adult Summer Reading Club - By An Author Of A Different Gender

Book Club - Hunger by Roxane Gay

"There's no shelter or safety or escape from the cruel stares and comments, the too-small seats, the too-small everything for your too-big body." 

"Even the happiest moments of my life are overshadowed by my body and how it doesn't fit anywhere." 

 "I am as healed as I am ever going to be."

For Adult Summer Reading Club- Autobiography or Memoir

Book Club - Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro

"The worst thing, I gathered, the worst thing that could happen in this life was to have people laughing at you."

"She believed in burglars."

"Well groomed girls frightened me to death.  I didn't like to even go near them, for fear I would be smelly.  I felt there was a radical difference, between them and me, as if we were made of different substances."


Adult Summer Reading Club - A Banned or Challenged Book

Book Club - Amulet by Kau Kibuishi

 " But more than that, I wish I knew what to do. I wish I wasn't alone." 

"You're not." 

 Adult Summer Reading Club - Graphic Novel or Comic Book

Book Club - Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs

' "....no need to dwell on hypothetical unpleasantries..." '

' "Doubt is the pinprick in the life raft." '

' "My brothers taught me a hard lesson.  No one can hurt you as badly as the people you love." '

Adult Summer Reading Club - Young Adult/Juvenile

Book Club - Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

'I shook my head and smiled at him.  He spoke again, slowly this time, and though his words sounded the same as before and meant nothing to me, they now sounded sweet.  They were the sound of a human voice.  There is no sound like this in all the world.'

Adult Summer Reading Club - Something You Read During Adolescence

Book Club - 'Salem's Lot by Steven King

 

"He glanced up at the sky, as if to see the very face of God, but the sky was indifferent."

" 'We must go through bitter waters before we reach the sweet.' "

For the Adult Summer Reading Club - Published in the Decade You Were Born

Book Club - Lion by Saroo Brierley

"We looked at each other for a second longer, and I felt a sharp stab of grief that it could take a mother and son even a few moments to simply recognize each other, and then a rush of joy that we now had."

Adult Summer Reading Club -  Adapted From Or Into A Movie

Book Club - Spider Bones by Kathy Reichs

"The air smelled of sun-warmed bark and apple buds raring to blossom and get on with life.  Overhead, a million baby leaves danced in the breeze."

Summer Reading Club 2017 - A Genre You Don't Normally Read

Adult Summer Reading Club 2017

I know, a lot of book stuff lately.
And more to come - the list is up for the TNRD Summer Reading Club - visit here for details - Adult Summer Reading Club.

Last year there were 18 books, this year only 10 -
Autobiography or Memoir
Graphic Novel or Comic Book
Young Adult/Juvenile
Banned or Challenged Book
Published in the Decade You Were Born
By An Author of a Different Gender
Adapted From or Into a Movie
A Genre You Don't Normally Read
Something You Read During Adolescence
Originally Published Outside North America


Club starts today and runs through August 31.