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5/01/2010

Israel Trip 2010: Roy's Bar Mitzvah, Pesach, And More...

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My two favorite things combined: Babies and Books

About Me

Sherril: Morris Plains, New Jersey, United States; I am a writer in search of a reader, a reader who wishes to write, a frustrated scribe without the necessary tools, yet having a lot to say. I wanted to act, so I entered the department of Speech and Dramatic Arts at Syracuse University a long time ago and became instead a Speech Pathologist. I am a mother of two grown kids and they are both a major life accomplishment.I am defined by my gender and Jewish religion as a culture. I started a book club. We call it the Book Club for Liberal Thinkers because moveon.org and progressive politics brought us together. I love books, movies, theater and babies, not necessarily in that order. I have a favorite movie, Enchanted April, which comes from the book of the same name and has a line that I love to quote: - "TO THOSE WHO APPRECIATE WISTERIA AND SUNSHINE SMALL MEDIEVAL ITALIAN CASTLE on the shores of the Mediterranean to be Let furnished for the month of April."

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The Book Club for Liberal Thinkers

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Book Club for Liberal Thinkers seeking Women of Liberal Persuasion, Looking for a Long-Term Commitment, No One Night Stands, Not into Harlequin Romances, Life Long Love of Literature a Plus, No Literary Genre Discounted, Fiction or Non, Eat, Drink-Wine and be Merry, Must Be Able to Commit to the Third Monday of every Month....Looking For a Few Good Women Readers!

LIST OF BOOKS READ BY BOOK CLUB for LIBERAL THINKERS SINCE MAY 2005

1. The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

2 My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki *

3 The Good Wife by Stewart O'Nan

4 Spending : A Utopian Divertimento by Mary Gordon *

5 My Dream of You by Nuala O'Faolain

6 1984 by George Orwell **

7. One Thousand White Women : The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus, ***

8. Atonement by Ian McEwan *

9. The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates *

10. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote ***

11 Power by Linda Hogan

12 Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham*

13 Pearl by Mary Gordon *

14 The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth

15 Moral Disorder and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood

16 What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller*

17 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

18 Winner of the National Book Award by Jincy Willett

19 The People's Act of Love by James Meek

20. The Places in Between by Rory Stewart (very interesting)

21. The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer**

22. The Wholeness of a Broken Heart by Katie Singer *

23. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini ***

24. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini ***

25. Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross (interesting)

26. Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (interesting AND won Pulitzer)

27. Any Place I Hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs

28. Audacity of Hope : Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama *

29. History of Love by Nicole Krauss *

30. Persepolis : The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi***

Persepolis 2 : The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi ***

31. American Pastoral by Philip Roth *

32. Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Translator)

33 The Echo Maker by Richard Powers *

34.Plan B 3.0 : Mobilizing to Save Civilization by Lester R. Brown

35. The Sportswriter by Richard Ford

36. Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs*

37. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan***

38. We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates*

39. Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Laheri***

40. Suite Francais by Irene Nemirovsky*

41. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortens

42. March by Geraldine Brooks***

43. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout**

44.The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski

45. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler*

46.The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows***

47. Dune

by Frank Herbert

48. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

49. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald***

50. Little Bee: A Novel by Chris Cleave**

51. The Gilead by Marilynn Robinson

52. The Hamlet by William Faulkner

53. The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver*

54. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

55. A Mercy by Toni Morrison

56. Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Laheri**

57. Stone Diaries by Carol Shields**

58. The Help by Kathryn Stockett***

59. 41 Stories by O. Henry***

60. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

61. Cry The Beloved Country by Alan Paton***

62. Another Roadside Attraction by Tom Robbins*

63. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert**

64. The Tiger's Wife by Tea Obrecht

65. Summer by Edith Wharton

66. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa*

67. Netherlands by Joseph O'Neill

68. The Room by

Emma Donoghue***

69. The Dovekeeprs

by Alice Hoffman

70. The Lover by

Marguerite Duras
71. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

72. 11/22/63 by Stephen King***

73. The Devil In The White City by Erik Laerson

74. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain**

75. The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier*

76. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed*

77. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, by A.J.Jacobs

78. The Love of a Good Woman: Stories by Alice Munroe

79. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

80. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn*

81. Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof *

82. Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt*

83. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline*

84. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini*

85. Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan*

86. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd *

87. Wild Swans by Jung Chang

88. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

89. On The Road by Jack Kerouac

90. The Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion byAndy Borowitz

91. The Secret History by Donna Tartt

92. All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer *

93. The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins *

94. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner **

95 Every Day by David Levithan

96. The Diary of a Teenage Girl by Phoebe Gloeckner

97 The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore

98 My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout *

99 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

100 I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Amaniti

101 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ***

102 Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann

103 The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah *

104 Moonglow-Novel-Michael-Chabon- **

105 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera *

106 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

107 Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie *

108 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier ***

109 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy ***

110 The Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine

111 Christodora by Tim Murphy

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