DG Book Club

We will be reading The Catcher in the Rye for our next book. If anyone wants to join us, please hurry and get the book!

After The Catcher in the Rye, we will be reading The Kite Runner.

This thread is continued from here: http://davesgarden.com/place/t/699634/

We switched and decided on "The Poisonwood Bible." Please join us everyone
cj, sorry, I forgot you decided on this thread. If we get enough readers, we will need this one, for sure. Thanks.

Here's what the review says:
The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them all they believe they will need from home but soon find that all of it - from garden seeds to the Scripture - is calamitously transformed on African soil.
Dancing between the darkly comic human failings and inspiring poetic justice of our times, the tale of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades is set against one of history's most dramatic political parables: the Congo's fight for independence. In a compelling exploration of religion, conscience, imperialist arrogance, and the many paths to redemption, Barbara Kingsolver has brought forth her most ambitious work ever.

Sounds like a good read to me. Join us.

I read this book a couple years ago. It is a good read and I can't believe it never got more raves. I seen you are also going to read Kite Runner, my daughter is reading it right now,
I'll have to hurry her along.

We decided against Kite Runner because of some poor reviews on another thread here at DG. But everyone seemed to like the Poisonwood Bible. So we went for it. I have started it and already like the format and the first days after arrival with all the culture shock.

anyone want to choose a new book and start up this book club again?

I haven't read through this thread so I don't know what books you have read. I just finished Barbara Kingsolver's Prodigal Summer and highly recommend it.

I would be interested and will try to come up with some suggestions. Hope we get more members interested!

The reviews of Prodigal Summer do indeed look good. I had suggested In America, by Susan Sontag, too. Any more nominations? darius, will you mention this in Coffee and give a link to here?

Sure.

There are several reasons I liked Prodigal Summer... one is the woven inter-connectedness of all living things affecting even the health of the garden... and one is the incredible human spirit that never gives up even when it appears to have done so.

Hi
I didnt know this was an ongoing club already started. If you are accepting new members let me know.

jada, we don't have "members" per se, we just let anyone join in. Choosing a book is a democratic process, and we usually check reviews of a book before we choose the one to read. So if you have any suggestions, just jump in. We are trying to stick with books that none of us has read before. I like darius' suggestion, so far.