Spring '12 Book Club

Each season I will list ten to fifteen books. You will pick one, read it, review it and snail mail the review to your partner. You should try to read the whole book for this swap, but like I said, you have plenty of choices. Remember that the point of this is to read books/genres/authors that you otherwise wouldn’t, even if you have to grit your teeth and bear it. You may pick a book you’ve read before, but that kind of defeats the object, right? But, yes, you can do this.

Here’s the list for Spring '12 :

1. The Absolute True Diary of a Partime Indian by Sherman Alexie
2. Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger
5. Kindred by Octavia Butler
6. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
7. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
8. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
9. Blood Work by Michael Connelly
10. The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
11. Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo
12. Zietoun by Dave Eggers
13. Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
14. A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick
15. Q is for Quarry by Sue Grafton

Your review should be about one side of printer paper. You should include the following points and anything else you wish:

• Which book you picked and why.

• What the book is about – you can copy out the synopsis if you want.

• What you thought of the book (eg. Would you recommend this book? Would you read it again? Would you read more from that author? Or from the same genre? Is it the type of thing you like, or is it totally new for you? Why or why not would you read more like it? etc.)