Back to Books - Welcome!

My favorite time of year. Go to bed in the heat of summer and wake up shivering. The back to books chill is here (at least in Montana).

We have four new members invited to the Rutabagas (hopefully they will all accept our invitation). Traci has a list of the top 10 Amazon books that she'll be posting at the top of our book list conversation, and I believe Tanya has already chosen our first read as a larger, growing group.

I've also added a page where everyone can make reading suggestions and also share comments (or reviews) about books that you read on your own that you may want to recommend or warn us about.

Welcome back, Rutabagas!

Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

Would my fellow Rutabagas be interested in this book as our next read?  Please say yes...  😊

Book List

Just thought it would be fun to track our reading accomplishments!  Feel free to edit, add, etc.  :)

One's on our desirable list:

· The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

· American Gods by Neil Gaiman

· The Shoemaker's Wife by Adriana Trigiani

· A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami

· The Hangman's Daughter by Oliver Potzsch

· How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom

· A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Brandi has read this one; Traci, too, but a long time ago)

· The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

· Gossamer by Lois Lowry

· Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

· The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

· The immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

· The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

· I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb (Brandi has read this one)

· The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Brandi has read this one)

Ones we have read (or attempted to read!):

1. Fifty Shades of Grey
2. Snow White and the Huntsman
3. The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
4. The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
5. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
6. The Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook

I finished the first 20% of Silver Linings Playbook. I'm finding it to be a fast read. Maybe if the Connecticut shootings hadn't just happened, I would be reading it differently, but so far, I'm a little afraid of the main character, and I keep wondering if he and Nikki are really having "away time" or if something bad happened to Nikki. Hopefully she just moved on. Where do others think Nikki has gone?

Silver Linings Playbook

So, here we start on a new book!  I have not started it yet, but I have downloaded it.  Let's hope that even though this one has a movie out about it, we have a better outcome than with Cloud Atlas (I'm still disappointed!!!). 

Happy Reading and Merry Christmas, Rutabagas!

Cloud Atlas through Hell

Hello, Rutabagas!
I am 90 percent through Cloud Atlas, and I give up. I thought it would be good because 1) Amazon said, "if you liked 1Q84 by Murakami, you will love Cloud Atlas, and 2) it's a movie now, right?

I guess reading this book is like mapping clouds, but that makes it impossible. Maybe I will finish it someday, but for now, I have to quit because I'm not getting anything good out of reading it.

How's it going for others? Any votes to jump ship and start a different story?

The Art of Racing in the Rain