2015 Radical Reads

If you're looking for the 2015 Radically Bookish reading list - here it is!

February 13 - Tayana's choice: A Mercy by Toni Morrison
March 20 - Heather's choice: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
April 24 - Leslie's choice: The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters 
May 15 - Theresa's choice: The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
June 13 - Kjirsten's choice: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
July 24 - Robin's choice: 'Serial' NPR podcaset
August 14 - Amy's choice: Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
September 11 - Meghan's choice: A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner
October 16 - Alayna's choice: The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman 
November 13 - Julie's choice: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Also-rans and tea summary still to come...

Book List Love

Sharing the book recommendations that came in from friends, in case you love book recs as much as I do!

Jen B - Bel Canto, Interpreter of Maladies, The Bad Girl, Walk in the Woods

Tiffany - Mists of Avalon

Tim W - 'The Circle' by Dave Eggers, The Alchemist

Laura C - Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, Round House by Louise Erdrich, Out Stealing Horses

Revel G - Being There

Jessica W - Dog Stars, Aristotle and dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Serena, and Goldfinch

Sheila B - The Stonecutter

Joyce K - Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Caleb's Crossing, To Kill a Mockingbird

Bryn B - Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England

Catherine H - Sarah's key, Every Last One, Ten Year Nap, Onward Toward What We're Going Toward, In One Person by John Irving

Jen B - Any of Louise Erdrich's books

Jacob C - Siddartha by Herman Hesse

Andi S - Mists of Avalon - a long one but so good. The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood. Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls

Beth S - Susan Wiggs. The Lakeshore Chronicles

Aspen J - Pope Joan, Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence hill, Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys, Hotel On the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

Karen K - Tenth of December, Orphan Master's Son, Sense of an Ending, Goldfinch, The Secret History, Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Sarah M - at least 5 books by Tomi Ungerer then watch Far Out isn't Far Enough, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, We Need New Names: A Novel, A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy)

Noreen G - I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb

Kelly R - Language of Flowers

Christine P - The Way of the Happy Woman: Living the Best Year of Your Life by Sara Avant Stover

Jen C - Wild, Goldfinch, Peace Like a River

Erin B - The immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Dinner

Renee' R -  The Husband's Secret, Where'd you go Bernadette, Wonder

How People Read

Originally discovered this passage in a Methods Reading class, but with help from the Google, learned it's from How to Speak How to Listen, Mortimer J. Adler:

How People Read

When they are in love and are reading a love letter, they read for all they are worth. They read every word three ways; they read between the lines and in the margins; they read the whole in terms of the parts and each part in terms of the whole; they grow sensitive to context and ambiguity, to insinuation and implication; they perceive the color of words, the odor of phrases and the weight of sentences. They may even take the punctuation into account. Then, if never before or after, they read.

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Theresa, I believe your library could EASILY appear in this collection. :)