Originally Posted By piperlynne I think someone suggested Mouse Trap. Some other ideas (some I've read, some I haven't The Stand - Stephen King Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Deep Economy - Bill McKibben The Street of A Thousand Blossoms - Gail Tsukiyama Wicked - Gregory Maguire Just a few thoughts. . I'd be willign to lead a discussion as well. . .
Originally Posted By alexbook Well, that's quite a variety. I'll go with whatever the group decides, but my own vote would be "Thousand Blossoms," as it's already on my nearly-endless list of books I've been meaning to read. Either that or "Deep Economy"; I'd never heard of it, but I just looked it up and it sounds interesting. "The Stand" is 1,138 pages long in paperback, so that might be a bit much for the group.
Originally Posted By piperlynne LOL I know. . but its such a good book and so timely now that everyone is freaked by the swine flu LOL. ;-)
Originally Posted By DVC_Pongo As far as I know, we have a leader for June, so July is yours piper. Just my 2 cents worth. And Alexbook, what do you mean you didn't askto be in charge? Your name has the word book in it for Christsakes! That's the power of suggestion, hour willingness to lead was implied. ;p
Originally Posted By magic0214 <<I think someone suggested Mouse Trap. Some other ideas (some I've read, some I haven't The Stand - Stephen King Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Deep Economy - Bill McKibben The Street of A Thousand Blossoms - Gail Tsukiyama Wicked - Gregory Maguire Just a few thoughts. . I'd be willign to lead a discussion as well. . .>> I suggested Mouse Trap. I would like to read Wicked, FORBID TO READ 451!! Let me throw out some more ideas. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland~~~Lewis Carroll The Hunchback of Notre Dame~~~Victor Hugo Les Miserables~~~Victor Hugo Ragtime~~~E. L. Doctorow The 39 Steps~~~Alfred Hitchcock 2001, A Space Odyessey~~~Arthur C. Clarke Those are just the non-disney ones. So I belive I am the head of next month... so do we want a disney, or non-disney book??
Originally Posted By piperlynne Every other month maybe? Disney then Non Disney. . .although. . that makes my month Disney related. . .
Originally Posted By WDWdreamin I'd be up for Wicked, Mousetrap, or Street of 1,000 Blossoms. The Victor Hugo books are also long (I love them. I even majored in them. Still too long for this kind of book club I think).
Originally Posted By magic0214 Then 250,000 pages it is!!! So we have 2 for Mouse Trap and 2 for Wicked...any other suggestions???
Originally Posted By piperlynne Just tell me what to buy LOL. Actually lets try to decide the next 2 books. .then I can get free shipping LOLOL. ;-)
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I finished the book and am ready to discuss....(fingers tapping impatiently until May 15th!!)
Originally Posted By alexbook ^--That's the annoying thing about book clubs. It's hard to synchronize everybody's reading. How about telling us what you thought of it generally, without spoilers if you can?
Originally Posted By DyGDisney I liked it. It's funny because I already knew a lot of it, but some of it was unbelievable. Oh, and I am blown away by human nature --- the horrible way people can treat others and think it's okay, just because they are paying for something.
Originally Posted By DVC_Pongo >>> the horrible way people can treat others and think it's okay, just because they are paying for something.<<< For the past 6 months, I have been keeping my own children and in addition, my 3 year old nephew. (recently diagnosed as being developmentally delayed, and is undergoing further evaluation, speech therapy, occupational therapy...etc...) <--just throwing that in for further clarity. Oh and of course most of you know I have seven kids of my own, two in diapers, blah blah blah. Anyway, I have been keeping my kids and my nephew. Now his parents have come to me and have asked me to continue keeping my nephew, AND my other nephew who is 7 years old, for the summer. They offered to pay me an "amount to be determined" "for my troubles." I flatly refused to accept ANY payment and acted insulted at the very idea. Why? Well not because I don't need the money, but for the exact reason listed here at the beginning of this post. Once you go from doing something for someone as a favor or as helping them out, and cross over into accepting money for the same, the ENTIRE nature of the relationship changes. If I take money, now all is "ok" afterall I would be getting PAID. Therefore it is no longer "help" or a "favor" and it becomes a service that is OWED to the parentsm after all they are PAYING for it. No thanks! Been there, done that, fa'git'a'bout'it. Sorry to vent here, just needed to let that out somewhere. Thanks. Back to topic...
