attn 09ers book club

hey girls,
I'm so excited!!
here is a list of all the girls that are in (if your name isn't here I'm sorry, I double checked the list, but accidents happen-dont be afraid to add it)Also, any brides who still want to join, Please do!!!

tanda826 (me)
NikkiR15
galgirl
PrincyJo
gporka23
DINAAMATUCCIO
Jmd75
beram63
NickandTara426
Jennmolloy
LnF0405
aimerlena01
MrsKtoBe
CMBove
Future Pepper
Mrs.Fazz2B
fiore 76
PROBM
JamieAnt06202009
MrsDtoBe03
squeekietoy
JeanettelovesJason
meora
Cacarina
Pooh57362
MissMelissa

Okay, so lets get started!!! I think we should start putting in suggestions and then we'll poll the results and have an official first book!!!

I was also curious to know if everyone would want to keep the book club on the boards or do you all want to meet once we have finished the book? I think it would be easier on the boards bc of everyones schecdule, but let me know.

ok, so my suggestion is Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (i'll try to get a link to the description up later)

cant wait to hear from you guys!

as always, happy planning!

wow whatever happened to ourbook club??? LOL

Does anyone still have the stepford wife logo i made lmao
Can i join yours?

I would also like to join.

i would love to join! are we going to talk about the book on boards or meet up ?

fun book or serious book?

i actually read prep already i'd really like to participate. she just came out with another book tho--american bride or american wife--something about being the first lady.

i had suggested choke by chuck palahniuk bc it just came out as a movie.

i am down!!!

as long as it is not that shopoholic and gossip girl stuff....

OOOh I am excited I wanted to read this book. I can't wait to go pick it up!!!

ETA: I am ok with either on the boards or meeting up. THe boards would be easier.

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Posted by beram63

i actually read prep already i'd really like to participate. she just came out with another book tho--american bride or american wife--something about being the first lady.

i had suggested choke by chuck palahniuk bc it just came out as a movie.

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definitely my kind of book...i almost bought that the other day....

The Man of My Dreams also looks good.. anyone read it?

Sittenfeld's poignant if generic follow-up to her bestselling debut, Prep, similarly tracks a young woman's coming-of-age, but rather than navigating an elite school's nasty and brutish social system, this time the narrator contends with a dysfunctional family and her own yearnings for love. Fourteen-year-old Hannah Gavener is abruptly shipped off from Philadelphia to live with her aunt in Pittsburgh when her mercurial, vindictive father breaks up his marriage and family, which includes Hannah's older sister, Allison, and their browbeaten mother. Sweet but insecure and passive, Hannah had 'been raised... not to be accommodated but to accommodate,' an upbringing that hobbles all her subsequent relationships. The novel follows Hannah through her teens and late 20s (from 1991 to 2005), as she searches for romantic fulfillment, navigates friendships (e.g., with her larger-than-life cousin Fig) and alternately tries to reconcile with her father and distance herself from him. But the most influential connection Hannah makes is with her psychiatrist, Dr. Lewin, whom she begins seeing her freshman year at Tufts. Although the novel aspires to be taken seriously and Hannah is a sympathetic protagonist, she remains a textbook case of a young woman who wants 'a man who will deny her. A man of her own who isn't hers.'


I haven't read either so I am down for both!

Choke look s good. I am def interested in reading it . below are some reviews, overview and note from publisher

From the Publisher
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay elder care for his mother, Victor has devised an ingenious scam: he pretends to choke on pieces of food while dining in upscale restaurants. He then allows himself to be “saved” by fellow patrons who, feeling responsible for Victor’s life, go on to send checks to support him. When he’s not pulling this stunt, Victor cruises sexual addiction recovery workshops for action, visits his addled mom, and spends his days working at a colonial theme park. His creator, Chuck Palahniuk, is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve.


From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble Review
Chuck Palahniuk, author of the dangerously brilliant Fight Club, pulls no punches in his latest novel, Choke. Once again, Palahniuk invites us to experience the underground, church-basement-dwelling world of the 12-step program. Only this time we're not in for testicular, bone, or skin cancer; this time we're dealing with sexual addiction. Not that former med student Victor Mancini has a problem, 'cause he doesn't. But when it comes to getting a little action, where better to go?

In Choke, as in all of Palahniuk's work, we hear the echoes of writers as diverse as Jonathan Swift, Don DeLillo, George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, and Bret Easton Ellis. But Palahniuk's voice is so unique, and his perspective so specific and fresh, one can hardly call his fiction derivative. Brazenly addressing our sexual excesses, our obsession with death, and our yearning for love, Palahniuk paints a horrific but ultimately fascinating portrait of the 21st-century psyche whose effect is much like bearing witness to an accident: Gruesome as it is, it is impossible not to look. (Cary Goldstein)




Review

Speechless
Ashlie ([email protected]), an enthused reader, 08/20/2008

I can't exactly say I'm speechless because I do have things to say about this book, but it's hard to put into words how I would describe it. So far I've only read two of Chuck Palahniuk's books and each are completely different and yet the same. All of them get you hooked within the first paragraph. His writing is pure genius because each scene is intricately detailed and framed with witty humor. Like his other books, Choke has random facts that make you wonder how in the world he knows these little tidbits of information. I would recommend this book to anyone that wants a strange yet disturbingly great book that you just can't put down.

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Posted by beram63

i actually read prep already i'd really like to participate. she just came out with another book tho--american bride or american wife--something about being the first lady.

i had suggested choke by chuck palahniuk bc it just came out as a movie.

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Ok, Prep is out-I guess I'll save it for another day, how was it anyway?
One of the other girls mentioned on the previous post that she had read Choke already.
Damn, who knew choosing a book would be so damn hard!
what about:
matrimony by joshua henkin
or
eat, pray, love by Ellizabeth Gilbert

keep the suggestions coming girls!

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Posted by LnF0405

any book is fine too me but I can't make it to GTG because I live Fl

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i think talking about it on the boards will be just as fun