Whoo-hoo! Our new book club list is in! I look forward to our new book club list every year. When my kids were very little, I never had time to read anything but the backs of cereal boxes and the occasional Parenting Magazine article about whether you should put your baby to sleep on her back or her belly (… it depended on the year). I’d read these random sentences while my children were in the bath, or try to hold the magazine steady while I fed the baby with my other hand, but I had “reader envy” big-time. My co-workers at the newspaper would go on and on about all the great books they were reading, and I’d listen wistfully, longing for the day when I could read two whole pages, straight through, without a small fry needing his shoes tied or a munchkin needing me to wipe the chocolate milk she just spilled across the breakfast bar. And soon — eventually — the day came! Now I read like crazy. And my book club has been a great source of joy — a seriously wonderful group of women who are smart, savvy and make me feel like a grown-up. Here’s what’s in store for 2009:
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January: To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
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February: The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
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March: Snow, Orham Pamuk
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April: The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard
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May: The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb
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June: Zorro: A Novel (P.S.), Isabel Allende
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July: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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August: The Devil in the White City, Erik Larsen
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September: When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
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October: The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, David Wroblewski
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November: A Mercy, Toni Morrison
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December: A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
Have you all read many of these? Tell me what I’m in store for. …