Adult Summer Reading Club 2018 Recap

A Staff Pick - Half Broke Horses
A Book With A One Word Title - Birdie
An Adventure Story - The Woman in Cabin 10
By A Canadian Author - Vinyl Cafe Unplugged
Picked At Random Off A Library Shelf - The Cook and the Gardener
Originally Published In A Foreign Language - Autumn
Re-Read A Favorite - Laura
A Travel Book About A Place You've Never Been - The Geography of Bliss
An E Book or E Audio Book - Call The Midwife
A Book Published in 2018 The Gunners
A Biography or Memoir - Dreams from My Father
Readers Choice - Things I Wish I Knew Before My Mom Died
Published In The Decade You Were Born - Cujo
Juvenile Or Young Adult - Dumplin'
Adapted Into A Movie China Rich Girlfriend
A Banned Or Challenged Book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
A Mystery Or Suspense Novel - The Death of Mrs. Westaway
A Book About Sports - Bleachers
A Cookbook - Try A New Recipe - Back in the Day Bakery

Book Club - Birdie

'Happiest when she is alone, Birdie wore her need for quiet like a veil.'

'Nope, she does not love the Whippets.  She sees their cruelty and deplores the mirror image in herself.' 

'She sometimes thinks that she was raised by good women and educated by less than good men.'

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Last book for the Summer Reading Club -  A Book With A One Word Title

Finished November 12.

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Happy to wrap up both NaBloPoMo AND the Summer Reading Club
for 2018 on the last day of November!

Book Club - Laura by Donald Zochert

"I picked a wild sunflower," she said "And as I looked into its golden heart such a wave of homesickness came over me that I almost wept.  I wanted my mother, with her gentle voice and quiet firmness; I longed to hear my father's jolly songs and to see his twinkling blue eyes; I was lonesome for the sister with whom I used to play in the meadow picking daisies and wild sunflowers."

"Ring out wild bells to the wild sky,

The flying cloud, the frosty light;

The year is dying in the night;

Ring out, wild bells, and let him die..... 

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Adult Summer Reading Club 2018 - Reread a favorite

Book Club - Cujo by Stephen King

"Why?  What had something like this been allowed to happen?  How could so many events have conspired together?"

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For Summer Reading Club 2018 - Published in the Decade You Were Born

Book Club - Back in the Day Bakery by Cheryl Day and Griffith Day

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For Summer Reading Club 2018 - Cookbook (Try a new recipe)

Focaccia Bread and Brown Sugar Chocolate Chip Shortbread

Book Club - Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard

"That's your family.  I mention it first because that's what matters most."

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Summer Reading Club 2018 - Originally Published in a Foreign Language

Book Club - I Know Why The Caged Brid SIngs

Mother whispered "See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing.  If you're for the right thing, then you'll do it without thinking."

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Adult Summer Reading Club - Banned book

Book Club -Call The Midwife by Jennifer Worth

Adult Summer Reading Club - Audiobook

Book Club - Bleachers by John Grisham

"Seems like yesterday, then it seems like a dream."

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Adult Summer Reading Club - A book about sports

Book Club - Dumplin' by Julie Murphy

"It's in these moments that I'm a shadow of the person I was.  The person Lucy had meant for me to be."

"There are so many things that Lucy never did.  Not because she couldn't, but because she told herself she couldn't, and no one made her believe otherwise."

"The universe is a strange thing."

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For Summer Reading Club 2018 - YA

Book Club - The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

"Apparently the majority of ball gown were designed by five year olds armed with glitter guns, but at least this one didn't look entirely like an explosion in a Barbie factory."

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For Summer Reading Club 2018 - Adventure

Book Club - The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner

"There's more than one path to happiness."

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Adult Summer Reading Club - Travel Book.

Book Club - The Gunners by Rebecca Kauffman

"Sure, death's a little scary, but life's the real bitch."

" "I enjoy you." she said, and Mikey wasn't sure if she was addressing him or the bourbon, so he didn't respond."

"You're afraid of the people you love disappearing."

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For Adult Summer Reading Club - Published in 2018.

Book Club - China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

"....anyone with a willing heart can be born again."

"Now breathe in the air.  Can't you just feel the good Chi flowing everywhere?"
Nick could only detect a faint scent that reminded him of Febreze, but he nodded along with Rachel and Carlton.

Astrid wandered down an overgrown path into a deeper part of the woods, passing long creepers dangling from the limbs of towering rain trees and old graves covered in moss.  Birds cackled loudly in the trees overhead, and small butterflies darted in and out of gigantic ferns.

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For the Summer Reading Club - still posting books I did actually read in the Summer.  Even though the movie for this book is not out yet, it's planned, so I'm using this for the Adapted into a Movie category.

Book Club - Things I WIsh I Knew Before My Mom Died by Ty Alexander

"No one tells you that your normal life is gone."

"Don't fight it.  Grief is now a part of you.'

"It's so cliched to say, but there really is someone out there who's worse off than you.  And there's someone else worse off than them.  And then there's someone else worse off than them."

"Everything we say, or think, has the potential to either heal us or harm us."

Book Club - Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls

"Most important thing in life," he would say, "is learning how to fall."

I realized that in the months since Helen had died, I hadn't been paying much attention to things like the sunrise, but that old sun had been coming up anyways.  It didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me."

"No looking back."  I said.  "You can't.  You just can't."

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For Summer Reading Club 2018 - Staff Pick

Book Club - Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

'I think sometimes that had I known she would not survive her illness, I might have written a different book - less a meditation on the absent parent, more a celebration of the one who was the single constant in my life.'

'The world was violent, I was learning, unpredictable and often cruel.  My grandparents knew nothing about such a world, I decided, there was no point disturbing them with questions they couldn't answer.'

"Seems to me we should be worrying about whether our own stuff's together instead of passing judgement on how other folks are supposed to act."

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Summer Reading Challenge 2018 - Biography or Memoir

Book Club - The Cook And The Gardener by Amanda Hesser

"Despite rain and cold, our minds turn toward lighter thoughts of sun, flowers, fresh air, even the prosaic prospect of wearing less clothing."

"We entered the long, narrow garden through a delicate wrought-iron arch tangled with climbing roses.  Her garden does not open up and show itself all at once.  It is filled with caches and surprises."

"The hunters are given the forest one day a week, but that is all.  It is mushroom season, after all."

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I bought this years ago after I read her other book Cooking for Mr. Latte.  I had to special order The C&G and it took months to show up......and it has sat on various shelves ever since.  I read it for the Summer Reading Challenge Category Picked at random off the library shelf, but instead of off the library shelf, if was picked from my own shelf. 
It was ok.  I liked Cooking for Mr. Latte much better.

Book Club - Vinyl Cafe Unplugged by Stuart McLean

"The two of them thew their snowballs at almost the same moment, and they both laughed in wonder when they collided in mid-air, spraying snow like a shower of icy fireworks through the silence of the night."

"Dave smiled and looked back at the letter in front of him.

I will go out and visit them after supper, he added

And I will write again soon.

Love, he wrote.

Love, Dave"

"Love never ends."

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I bought this book early this year because I thought that one of the stories in it had a quote that I wanted to use for my Mom's memorial folder at her service.

I couldn't find the quote I wanted - I remembered the story wrong, so I put the book aside for a while before reading it.  
When the Summer Reading Challenge came along I picked this one for By a Canadian Author.
 

Book Club - The Death of Mrs. Westaway by Ruth Ware

'Never believe it, Hal.  Never believe your own lies.'

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I borrowed this from My Boo to fill the Mystery or Suspense Novel category in this Summers Reading Challenge.  It was good, a bit suspenseful, and a nice change of pace from all the self help and biographies I have waiting for me.