Book Banter Book Group
Do you enjoy talking about books you have read? Would you like to discuss questions you have about books with others? Have you ever disliked a book so much that you had to let someone else know why? If you have answered yes to any of these questions, consider joining the afternoon Book Banter reading group at Oregon Public Library.
The group meets once a month on the second Wednesday of the month at 2 p.m. All books selected are available through the library system and copies of the next book to be discussed are usually available for checkout at the meeting. New members welcome. For more information call 835-3656.
2010
January 14 - People of the book by Geraldine Brooks
February
10 - In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
March 10 - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
April 21 -
The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson by Bill Christofferson
May 12 - Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick
September
October
November
December
2009
January - Run by Ann Patchett
February - The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir by Bill Bryson
March - One Thousand White Women : The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus
April - Last Child in the Wood: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
May - Patty Jane's House of Curl: A Novel by Lorna Landvik
June - Five Fortunes by Beth Gutcheon
July - Population 485: meeting your neighbors one siren at a time by Michael Perry
August - The Vineyard by Barbara Delinsky
September -
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
October - How Far is the Ocean from Here: A Novel by Amy Shearn
November - In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
December - In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
2008
January - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
February – Final Frontiersman by James Campbell
March – The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
April – Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders by William Drennan
May – The Turk and My Mother by Mary Helen Stefaniak
June – Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
July – Straight Man by Richard Russo
August - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O’Farrell
September – Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
October - The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan
November - Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum
December - Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin
2007
October - Murder Over Easy by Marshall Cook
November - Cry Rape by Bill Lueders
December - Digging to America by Anne Tyler