We met last night at the home of Beth Hedengren where we enjoyed a wonderful discussion of books (and other things), and were fed delicious apple crisp made with Beth's golden delicious apples.
Here is a list of the books that were read this past month:
MARLENE MATHESON
“Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper” by Phaedra Patrick
“Reclaiming Conversation” by Sherry Turkle
“Irresistible: The Rise of Digital Technology and the
Business of Keeping Us Hooked” by Adam Alter
“These Is My Word: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine” by Nancy
Turner
SUE DE MARTINI
“Hillbilly Elegy” by JD Vance
“It’s All Relative: Adventures UP and Down of the World’s
Family Tree” by AJ Jacobs
“Code Girls” by Liza Mundy
“Wanted Men” by Lee Child
“The Twelve Rules for Living” by
Jordan Peterson (Listed below)
“The Radium Girls” by Kate Moore
“The Invention of Wings” by Sue
Monk Kidd
“The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism
Makes Fun of Life” by Terryl Givens and Fiona Givens(Author of “The Christ Who
Heals”)
LANI PACKARD
“Akin to Anne” by L.M. Montgomery
“Frannie and Zooey” by J.D.
Salinger
“Vinegar Girl” by Anne Tyler
GERI CHRISTENSEN
“The Mysterious Affair at Styles”
by Agatha Christie
“Agatha Raisin and the Day the
Floods Came” by M.C. Beaton
“Mary Poppins” by P.L. Travers
“My Story” by Elizabeth Smart
“My Name is Malala” by Malala
Yousfazai
“The Shell Seekers” by Rosamunde
Pilcher
MARYANN STEVENS
“Charms For The Easy Life” by Kate
Gibbons
“Truly Madly Guilty” by Leanne
Moriarty (author of “Big Little Lies” and “What Alice For. got”)
(“Big
Little Lies”, and “What Alice Forgot”
TWELVE RULES FOR LIVING:
1. Stand
up straight with your shoulders back
2. Treat
yourself like someone you are responsible for helping.
3. Make
friends with people who want the best for you.
4. Compare
yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone is today.
5. Do
not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them.
6. Set
your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.
7. Pursue
what is meaningful and not what is expedient.
8. Tell
the truth—or, at least don’t lie.
9. Assume
that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.
10. Be
precise in your speech.
11. Do
not bother children when they are skateboarding. (Let them take risks & do
dangerous things.)
12. Pet
a cat when you encounter one on the street.
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