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

rose window

Chronologically:

Alphabetically:

"When you re-read a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before." - Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)

Page 2 in the list of books we've read in date order. Click on a title to read the first paragraph of the book.

1999

#	When We Met	Where We Met	Title	Author
56	1/12/1999	Didi	The Wild Swans	Iris Chang
57	3/2/1999	Donna	Into Thin Air	Jon Krakauer
58	3/2/1999	Donna	Into the Wild	Jon Krakauer
59	4/12/1999	Dorothy	Memoirs of a Geisha	Arthur Golden S.
60	6/10/1999	Jean	Tender at the Bone	Ruth Reichl
61	7/21/1999	Pat	Naked Once More	Elizabeth Peters
62	8/25/1999	No Host	One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
63	10/2/1999	Donna	Palace Walk	Naguib Mahfouz
64	11/16/1999	Lorraine	The Professor and the Madman	Simon Winchester
65	12/7/1999	Rachelle	Washington Square	Henry James

2000

#	When We Met	Where We Met	Title	Author
66	1/25/2000	Didi	Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman
67	2/15/2000	Dorothy	Tuesday's with Morrie	Mitch Albom
68	2/15/2000	Dorothy	The Pilot's Wife	Anita Shreve
69	4/4/2000	Jean	Walking with the Wind, A Memoir of the Movement	John Lewis
70	5/24/2000	Pat	Actual Innocence	Scheck. Barry
71	6/13/2000	Donna	The Wedding	West. Dorothy
72	7/11/2000	Lorraine	Hanna's Daughters	Marianne Fredriksson
73	10/3/2000	Rachelle	In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner	Elizabeth George
74	11/7/2000	Jean	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway
75	12/4/2000	Pat	A Year by the Sea	Joan Anderson

To the Top

"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on, I go into another room and read a good book." - Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)

2001
#	When We Met	Where We Met	Title	Author
76	1/9/2001	Dorothy	No book
77	2/5/2001	Donna	Midwives	Bohjalian, Chris
78	3/6/2001	Didi	Possession	A S Byatt
79	4/3/2001	Lorraine	A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius	Dave Eggers
80	5/19/2001	Donna	No Book
81	6/5/2001	Rachelle	Plainsong	Kent Haruf
82	7/9/2001	Pat	Death in Holy Orders	P D James
83	10/2/2001	Jean/ Lorraine	The Hours	Michael Cunningham
84	11/6/2001	Lorraine	Amy & Isabelle	Elizabeth Strout
85	12/13/2001	Didi	The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay	Michael Chabon

To the Top

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Cicero (106 - 43BC)

2002
#	When We Met	Where We Met	Title	Author
86	1/7/2002	Donna	Bridge on the Drina	Ivo Andric
87	2/2/2002	Rachelle	Sweet Potato Queen' s Book ot Love	Browne. Jill Conner
88	3/4/2002	Pat	Shot in the Heart	Gilmore, Mikal
89	4/8/2002	Jean	Snow in August	Hamill, Pete
90	5/18/2002	Donna	Sarah Conley	Gilchrist, Ellen
91	6/11/2002	Lorraine	Red Tent	Diamant. Anita
92	7/9/2002	Didi	The World at Night	Alan Furst
93	7/9/2002	Didi	Red Gold	Alan Furst
94	9/10/2002	Rachelle	Monstrous Regiment of Women	Laurie King
95	10/7/2002	Pat	La Cucina -- A Novel of Rapture	Lily Prior
96	11/4/2002	Jean	Year of Wonders -- A Novel of the Plague	Geraldine Brooks
97	12/2/2002	Donna	Embers	Sandor Marai -- translated by Carol Brown Janeway

To the Top

"So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall." - from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", by Roald Dahl (1964)

2003
#	When We Met	Where We Met	Title	Author
98	1/6/2003	Lorraine	Queens' Play	Dorothy Dunnett
99	2/3/2003	Didi	John Adams	David McCullough
100	3/3/2003	Rachelle (Grimaldi’s)	The Talented Mr. Ripley	Patricia Highsmith
101	4/7/2003	Pat	Sarum	E. Rutherfurd
102	5/13/2003	Lou’s Café 53^rd and 6^th?	Don’t remember
103	6/7/2003	Donna (Fire Island)	Was there a Book? What was it?
104	7/14/2003	Jean	Seabiscuit	Laura Hillenbrand
105	9/9/2003	LRH	The Killing Floor	Lee Child
106	9/9/2003	LRH	Die Trying	Lee Child
107	9/9/2003	LRH	Tripwire	Lee Child
108	10/13/2003	Didi – Spice	The Three Musketeers	Alexander Dumas
109	11/3/2003	Rachelle - Magee’s Pub	Girl With a Pearl Earring	Tracy Chevalier
110	12/1/2003	Pat – Minetta Tavern	House of Sand and Fog	Andre Dubus III

To the Top

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

2004

When We Met

Where We Met

Title

Author

111

1/13/2004

Donna -
La Bonne Soupe

The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd

112

2/10/2004

Jean

Benjamin Franklin

Edmund S. Morgan

113

3/2/2004

Dessy

The Da Vinci Code

Dan Brown

114

4/24/2004

Pat – Catskills

Walden; or,Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau

115

4/24/2004

Pat – Catskills

Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

116

4/24/2004

Pat – Catskills

Thanatopsis and Other Poems

William Cullen Bryant

117

5/11/2004

Lorraine

No Book, Regrouping

118

6/26/2004

Donna – Fire Island

Fear of Flying

Erica Jong

119

7/13/2004

Didi

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Azar Nafisi

120

9/14/2004

Jean

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Azar Nafisi

121

10/5/2004

Dessy

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

122

11/2/2004

Pat

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

123

12/7/2004

Lorraine

The Corrections

Jonathan Franzen

To the Top

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them." - Joseph Brodsky (1940 - 1996)

2005
#	When We Met	Where We Met	Title	Author
124	1/19/2005	Donna	The Piano Tuner	Daniel Mason
125	2/16/2004	Jean	Look Homeward, Angel	Thomas Wolfe
126	3/21/2005	Didi	Look Homeward, Angel	Thomas Wolfe
127	4/6/2005	Pat	The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini
128	5/7/2005	Donna - Fire Island	Bel Canto	Ann Patchett
129	6/30/2005	???	Howard's End	E. M. Forster
130	7/30-8/1/2005	Pat - Country	Devil in the White City	Erik Larson
131	9/13/2005	Dessy	Madam Secretary	Madeleine Albright
132	10/11/2005	Lorraine	The News From Paraguay	Lily Tuck
133	11/8/2005	Jean	Candy Freak	Steve Almond

To the Top

"A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices." - Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973)