Notes from Women Who Read 2/11/09

For our first meeting, we discussed guidelines and books that we would like to read.

Women Who Read Guidelines:

• Unlike school, this should be fun, social and its ok to not always finish the reading! 
• Attendance is open and affirming.
• Women Who Read will aim to meet every 2nd Wednesday of the month at 7:30 pm, with breaks in August and December.
• We will rotate meetings at our homes. In the event that the location needs to change, we will meet at Molly Malone's in Forest Park.
• Host to provide snacks and wine
• Everyone should bring one question or discussion topic.

Suggested Books:

• The time machine by HG Wells
  
• The power of one by Bryce Courtenay
  
• Dreams from my father by Barack Obama
  
• 3 cups of tea by Greg Mortenson 
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk
  
• And then we came to the end by Joshua Ferris
  
• The fifth child by Doris Lessing
  
• Dry by Augustine Burrows
  
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  
• Loving Frank by Nancy Horan 
  
• The forever war by Dexter Filkin
  
• Someone knows my name by Lawernce Hill
  
• My life in France by Julia Childs
  
• Under the banner of Heaven
  
• Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood by William Pollack
  
• A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemmingway
  
• The jungle by Upton Sinclair
  
• Dream City - Brandon Short
  
• The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini
  
• A thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  
• Middlemarch by George Elliot
  

Next Meeting:

Our next meeting will be held on March 11, 2009 at Marcia Schattaur's home. We will be discussing Three cups of tea by Greg Mortenson.