Updated Book List

Click here to view an update to the Basil Reader's book list. We're up to 57 books!

Next Meeting 1.10.10

Our next meeting is Sunday, January 10th at 5:30pm at Angie's. We will be discussing Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body. See you then!

I finished it for Jill and the results are...

The Dud Avocado ended up being an okay book. It was broken into three parts and parts two and three read much quicker and were less confusing. Unfortunately you have to get to page 153 before part two begins. There are only 255 pages in the book. My favorite part ended up being the last couple sentences. I don't know why but I thought they were very clever. The last word ended up being the last word in the dictionary. It was actually the second to last word in the dictionary I looked in but I am sure it was the last word listed in the 1958 version of the dictionary. :)

Two Books

I've just finished reading The Time Traveler's Wife and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Literary Society. I wanted to recommend them both to the group if you have any extra time to read this summer. They were great!

Book Club Recap 07.12.09

NEXT BOOK:
"Love the One You're With" by Emily Giffin.

UPCOMING MEETINGS:
August 23 - Jamie's
October 4 - Erin H's
November 15 - Mandy's

CURRENT HOSTING ROTATION:
Jamie
Erin H.
Mandy
Angie
Cassie
Erin A.
Jess
Megan
Liz
Jill (unlikely since she'll be in CO!)
Brie

Next Meeting 7.12.09

Our next meeting is this Sunday 7/12 at 5:30 pm at Brie's. We will be discussing The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy. Looking forward to seeing everybody!

Animal, Vegetable, ?

Hey Basil Readers. So today I realized that I had believed that the book was called Animal, Vegetable, Mineral. Why is that, I wonder? Has anyone else started reading it? I am kind of dying to discuss. We were at the cabin this weekend, so I got a lot of reading in.

I am struggling to balance feelings of curiosity, envy, disdain, anger, and intrigue. That's me right now.

Also, here is a link to the book's website. I am really dorking out about this book.