The Master List
We, the fabulous, have read....
Nickel and Dimed (NF)
On Bullshit (Academic paper)
Elizabeth I (NF)
In Cold Blood (Historical F)
Candy Girl (Memoir)
Sweet Hereafter (F)
Pope Joan (Historical F)
Memoirs of a Geisha (F)
For those of you that missed Nickel and Dimed, it was written by Barbara Ehrenreich. She went undercover and worked various min wage jobs to see if a human being could actually survive without public assistance. She has a great sense of humor and I found the book to be bewildering and entertaining at the same time
posted by Shannon @ 9:14 PM
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do you guys want to rank the books based on how much we each enjoyed them. Maybe that would help us to figure out what works for us and how to pick books for the future? Here's my ranking:
1. sweet hereafter
2. candy girl
3. in cold blood
4. memoirs of a geisha
5. nickel and dimed
6. pope joan
7. elizabeth I
8. on bullshit
i included in my ranking how well i thought the discussion went after the reading, but it's also based on how much i liked the books. Do you guys think this might help us?
My favorite for discussion was Candy Girl. A book i would have never picked up was Geisha and I loved it. Favorite book was either Nickel and Dimed or Sweet Hereafter.
okay, another ranking:
Favorite book: Sweet Hereafter or In Cold Blood
Favorite discussion: Candy Girl, Memoirs of a Geisha
I would never have picked up Candy Girl on my own.
Here's my ranking:
Best discussion: Candy Girl, In Cold Blood
Favorite read: Memoirs of a Geisha and Pope Joan
Longest: Elizabeth I
Shortest: On Bullshit
Book that left me wanting more and scrating my head: Sweet Hereafter
Nickle & Dimed was before I joined the group so I can't rank it. I think Candy Girl tops just about everyone's favorite discussion list becuase we mention it at almost every meeting. But who can blame us, as talk of demos and visuals also tend to pop up in conversation.
1. memoirs of a geisha
2. Candy girl
3. in cold blood
4. pope joan
5. sweet hereafter
6. elizabeth I
7. on Bullshit
Best discussion: Candy girl & In cold blood
would not have read on my own all but my ranked top 1 & 2 picks.
And yea only a few more months of liking Kelley and then I'll be family! Just kidding!
Kelley, we have missed you like the deserts miss the rain. i wrote that for you. it's cool there seems to be some consensus at least with regard to what discussions were good, even if we disagree how much we liked certain books. Hopefully we can keep picking winners.
If Butch ever writes a novel it's not getting past our extremely strict voting process.
There is always good discussion to be had at BC!! This is definately a chatty group, if there ever was one. Usually even more so when we are split on liking a book or not.
By the way I do have number envy. Kelley's got 55 profile views and I only have a meager 24. Goes to show you nobody finds a middle aged broad that likes Auntie Mame or Gladiator...
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