BB4B Book Club What We've Read and When We Read It

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“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.”

-- Michel de Montaigne

Here's the list of books we've read in date order. Click on a title to read the first paragraph of the book.

1993

Book #	When We Met	Where We Met	Title	Author
1	10/21/1993	Jean	Dakota, A Spiritual Geography	Kathleen Norris
2	11/11/1993	Donna	Beloved	Toni Morrison
3	12/01/1993	Lorraine	Stop-Time	Frank Conroy

1994

#	When We Met	Where We Met	Title	Author
4	01/05/1994	Pat	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
5	03/08/1994	Didi	A Tale of Two Cities	Charles Dickens
6	04/05/1994	Dorothy	A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain Stories	Robert Olen Butler
7	05/04/1994	Jean	The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Milan Kundera
8	06/22/1994	Bandito’s	Like Water for Chocolate	Laura Esquivel
9	07/27/1994	Donna	The Waterworks	E.L. Doctorow
10	09/13/1994	Lorraine	Vita: A Biography of Vita Sackville-West	Victoria Glendinning
11	10/11/1994	Pat	Orlando	Virginia Woolf
12	11/17/1994	Patria	Smilla’s Sense of Snow	Peter Hoeg

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"Every burned book enlightens the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

1995

#	When We Met	Where We Met	Title	Author
13	01/03/1995	Didi	Family	Ian Frazier
14	01/28/1995	Cancelled	Little Women	Louisa May Alcott
15	03/06/1995	Dorothy	Angle of Repose	Wallace Stegner
16	04/03/1995	Jean	The Alienist	Caleb Carr
17	05/02/1995	Lorraine	Winter’s Tale	Mark Helprin
	06/03/1995	Fire Island	No Book
18	07/11/1995	Didi	The Age of Innocence	Edith Wharton
19	09/12/1995	Jean	The Mists of Avalon	Marion Zimmer Bradley
20	10/02/1995	Dorothy	One True Thing	Anna Quindlen
21	11/06/1995	Donna	Surrender the Pink	Carrie Fisher
22	12/04/1995	Pat	The Decameron	Giovanni Boccaccio

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"Tis the good reader that makes the book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of all books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart." - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

1996

#	When We Met	Where We Met	Title	Author
23	01/16/1996	Lorraine	Eva Luna	Isabel Allende
24	02/12/1996	Didi	Devil in a Blue Dress	Walter Mosely
25	03/11/1996	Jean	Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. I:1884-1933	Blanche Wiesen Cook
	03/27/1996	Bouley’s
26	04/22/1996	Dorothy	Moo	Jane Smiley
27	05/18/1996	Fire Island	Primary Colors	Anonymous (aka Joe Klein)
28	07/10/1996	Pat	Maus: A Survivor's Tale	Art Spiegelman
29	09/16/1996	Lorraine	Unorthodox Practices	Marissa Piesman
30	09/16/1996	Lorraine	A Great Deliverance	Elizabeth George
31	09/16/1996	Lorraine	Broken Vessel	Kate Ross
32	09/16/1996	Lorraine	Alibi for an Actress	Gillian Farrell
33	10/15/1996	Didi	Snow Falling on Cedars	David Guterson
34	11/12/1996	Jean	The Road from Coorain	Jill Ker Conway

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"A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way." - Caroline Gordon (1895 - 1981)

1997

#	When We Met	Where We Met	Title	Author
35	02/11/1997	Dorothy/Wave Restaurant	Liar’s Club	Mary Karr
36	03/17/1997	Donna	King Lear	William Shakespeare
37	04/28/1997	Pat	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	John Berendt
	05/17/1997	Fire Island
38	06/16/1997	Lorraine	Stones from the River	Ursula Hegi
39	07/14/1997	Didi	In the Presence of the Enemy	Elizabeth George
40	08/11/1997	Jean	A Civil Action	Jonathan Harr
41	09/22/1997	Jean	She’s Come Undone	Wally Lamb
42	10/14/1997	Dorothy/Wave staurant	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
43	11/11/1997	Pat	The Color of Water	James McBride
44	12/08/1997	Donna	Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov

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"Wherever in the world the little room of literature has been closed, sooner or later the walls have come tumbling down." - Salman Rushdie (1947 - )

1998

#	When We Met	Where We Met	Title	Author
45	01/13/1998	Lorraine	Legs	William Kennedy
46	02/10/1998	Rochelle’s	The Sculptress	Minette Walters
47	03/24/1998	Didi	Cold Mountain	Charles Frazier
48	05/05/1998	Bar Pitti Restaurant	Under the Tuscan Sun	Frances Mayes
49	05/30/1998	Fire Island	Personal History	Katharine Graham
50	06/30/1998	Jean Walker Park	Outlander	Diana Gabaldon
51	07/28/1998	Nam Phuong (Dorothy)	Comanche Moon	Larry McMurtry
52	09/22/1998	Pat	The Perfect Storm	Sebastian Junger
53	09/22/1998	Pat	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	Rebecca Wells
54	10/26/1998	Lorraine	The Prime of Life	Simone de Beauvoir
55	12/12/1998	Rachelle	Deception of the Mind	Elizabeth George

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--Lady Mary Wortley Montague

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