And you can read all about it on the New York Times Local blog! In addition to the terrific discussion we had of Allison's novel What You Have Left (again, refer to first link), we also voted on the book for next month's meeting.
The choices I presented as host were:
Kelly Corrigan's The Middle Place (listen to my radio interview with Corrigan)
Kate Atkinson's Case Histories
Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Janelle Brown's All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kittredge
After our requisite two rounds of voting (you get two votes in the first round, one in the second where we vote on the top two vote getters from the first round), Kate Atkinson came out the winner. I'm really pleased as I've long wanted to read her, this will be my first Atkinson novel.
Here are some links for our discussion:
Kate Atkinson's website
Case Histories Reading Group Guide
I'm so excited for you and your book club!
Posted by: Kathy | July 16, 2009 at 04:18 PM
It sounds like you had a wonderful time. My book club read CASE HISTORIES back in Dec. 2005. Can't wait to hear what you guys think of it!
Posted by: Julie P. | July 16, 2009 at 08:35 PM
How fun to meet with a local author! Would love to convince my book group to do that.
Posted by: Dawn - She is Too Fond of Books | July 16, 2009 at 10:30 PM
We covered and loved:
Kate Atkinson's Case Histories for Books & Bars and will be doing
Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo for the second Tues in October. Maybe you could do it same time and we could Skype it together?
Posted by: Jeff Kamin | July 17, 2009 at 02:40 PM
I have Case Histories sitting in my TBR pile and keep thinking it needs to get moved to the top of the pile for something completely different. I think you could not have gone wrong with most of the choices. "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything" would give a group a lot to talk about but I can't say I cared much for it. Here's my review
http://litandlife.blogspot.com/2009/07/by-janelle-brown-417-pages-published.html
Posted by: Lisa | July 18, 2009 at 12:07 PM
I'm so wildly jealous of you and your book club. EVERY book on your list is one I want to read. And the author visit -- well, I'm partial to those only because I love to do them myself. Cheers!
Posted by: Jennie Nash | July 18, 2009 at 01:58 PM
I have heard good things about, Girl with a Dragon Tattoo.
Posted by: Kelly | July 20, 2009 at 09:06 AM
Has anyone read Lost Letter by Neil Mulligan? Thoughts?
Posted by: sandy | August 13, 2009 at 05:39 PM