Reviews of American Lion

NYTimes

OregonLive.com

Seattle Times

Reviews of The Help:

NYTimes

California Literary Review

The Telegraph (check out the cover art!)

NPR

Bio of Kathryn Stockett

From Robin

For those who enjoyed reading The Worst Hard Times: If you missed the American Experience documentary "Surviving the Dust Bowl" shown on PBS on November 16 you can view it online.

Here's the list of book choices we made:

February 10 - American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham

March 10 - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows

April 14 - Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

May 12 - Call It Sleep by Henry Roth

June 9 - Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe by Christopher McDougall

Here's our 2009 picture. If Jane sends me her photo, I'll put that up also.

2008 snapshot of some of the 2nd Wednesday Book Group members. Some folks are missing which is too bad. Perhaps we should do 2 photos each year. Between the two, we might catch everyone.

Complete list of book discussed by 2nd Wednesday Book Group
2010

January - Kathryn Stockett: The Help

2009
January - Ken Follett: Lie Down With Lions
February - any book by Will Cather
March - John Berendt: The City of Falling Angels
April - Pete Hamill: North River

May - Ruth Reichl: Garlic and Sapphires

June - Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger

July - Thomas Friedman: Hot, Flat, and Crowded

August - John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath

September - Toni Morrison: A Mercy

October - David McCullough: Mornings on Horseback

November - William Kennedy: Ironweed

December - Amy Dickinson: The Mighty Queens of Freeville

2008
January – Elizabeth Cohen: The House on Beartown Road
February– Julia Glass: Three Junes
March – Timothy Egan: The Worst Hard Times
April – J. M. Coetzee: Disgrace
May – Any book by or about Mark Twain (Samuel Clemmons
June - Barbara Kingsolver: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and/or Michael Pollan: In Defense of Food
July - Julian Barnes: Arthur and George
August - Garry Wills: Lincoln at Gettysburg and/or James L. Swanson: Manhunt
September - Sara Gruen: Water for Elephants
October - Jeffrey Toobin: The Nine
November - Amy Tan: Saving Fish From Drowning
December - Doris Kearns Goodwin: No Ordinary Time

2007
January – Steven D. Levitt: Freakonomics: a Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
February – Matthew Pearl: The Dante Club
March – Stephen Greenblatt: Will in the World, How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
April – Geraldine Brooks: March
May – Joan Biskupic: Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice
June – Anna Quinlan: Rise and Shine
July – Peter Hessler: River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
August – Nadine Gordimer: The Pickup
September – Tom Standage: History of the World in Six Glasses
October – Kim Edwards: The Memory Keeper's Daughter
November – Alice Hoffman: The Ice Queen
December – Jimmy Carter: Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. Norman Finkelstein: Beyond Chutzpa. Alan Dershowitz: The Case for Peace. Sandy Tolan: The Lemon Tree

2006
January – Bill Moyers: Moyers on America: a Journalist and His Times
February – Barbara Kingsolver: Prodigal Summer
March – Anne Fadiman: The spirit catches you and you fall down: a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures
April – Sue Monk Kidd: The Mermaid Chair
May – Zainab Salbi, Laurie Becklund: Between Two Worlds: Escape From Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam
June – Mary Lawson: Crow Lake
July – Frank McCourt: Teacher Man
August – Marilynne Robinson: Gilead
September – Doris Kerns Goodwin: Team of Rivals: the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
October – Louise Erdrich: The Master Butcher’s Singing Club
November – Jung Chang: Wild Swans: Three Women of China
December – Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility

2005
January - Tracy Kidder: Mountains Beyond Mountains
February - Yann Martel: The Life of Pi
March – Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner
April – Non-fiction selections by the group
May – Alexander McCall Smith: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency or another book in the series
June – Susan Vreeland: The Girl in Hyacinth Blue
July – Miles Harvey: The Island of Lost Maps
August – Nicole Mones: A Cup of Light
September – John Hockenberry: Moving Violations and/or Ann Patchett: Truth and Beauty
October – Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
November – Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point
December – Ann Patchett: Bel Canto

2004
January -Thomas L. Friedman: From Beirut to Jerusalem
February -Anita Diament: The Red Tent
March - Anna Quindlen: Blessings
April - Hilary Clinton: Living History
May - Susan Choi: American Woman
June - Mark Haddon: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
July - Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis
August - Edward P. Jones: The Known World
September - Cokie Roberts: Founding Mothers
October - Mitch Albom: Five People You Meet in Heaven
November - Jack Kerouac: On the Road
December - Anita Shreve: any novel by this author

2003
October - Laura Hillenbrand: Seabiscuit
November - Madeleine Albright: Madame Secretary: a Memoir
December - Sue Monk Kidd: The Secret Life of Bees