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AUGUST 30, 2010
BookWomen

One of my favorite book related newsletters is BookWomen: A Reader's Community For Those Who Love Women's Words. Published bi-monthly  by BookWomen Cener for Feminist Reading,Minnesota Women's Press, Inc., this little newsletter is just chock full of book reviews and articles pertaining to  women and reading. I read my issue cover to cover as soon as it arrives and always find something new to read, recommend and contemplate. I just wish this were a monthly publication.

For a free sample copy of BookWomen, call 651-646-3968 x303 or e-mail books@womenspress.com

Minnesota Women's Press also publishes a wonderful book, The Great Books...because women say so!  It contains more than 400 titles, selected by book groups from 1986 through 2009, plus books they have used around themes on reading retreats.

In the most recent issue of BookWomen, August-September 2010, The Great Books list has increased with this list of titles from 2009 (reprinted with permission from Minnesota Women's Press, Inc.)

Just what is a Great Book?
"Each year readers in book groups, book retreats, at Minnesota Women's Press select the book of all they've read, that most intrigued, inspired and stretched them, that provoked the strongest discussion, the one they most want other readers to know about. These are the Great Books."

Four of the following titles are considered The Greatest of the Great, those titles that have now been chosen by more than one group.

These are The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams and The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell.

Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobbs (1996) science fiction
Astrid & Veronika by Linda Olsson (2007) fiction
Blackwater by Kerstin Ekman (1993), mystery
Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine (2008) young adult fiction
City of Light by Lauren Belfer (1999) historical fiction
Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell (2008) historical fiction
Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barber (2008) fiction
Finding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Wiliams, essays
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pell Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & annie Barrows (2008) historical fiction
Here's to You, Jesusa! by Elean Poniatowska (1969) fiction, translated from Spanish
The Latecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia yang (2008)
Lottery by Patricia Wood (2207) fiction
Lovesick by Angeles Mastreea (1997) fiction, translated from Spanish
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Stout (2008) connected short stories
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks (2008) fiction
People of the Whale Linda Hogan (2008) fiction
Persuasion by Jane Austen (1818) fiction
Still Alice by Lisa Genova (2009) fiction
The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney (2006) historical fiction
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee fiction
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell (2006) fiction.

When I'm looking for something good to read I often turn to these lists. The 2009 list contains many that I've already read and that our library owns. I can highly recommend City of Lightby Belfer, Still Alice by Genova, and Tenderness of Wolves by Penney.

Our Second Tuesday Fiction Group has chosen two of these titles to read this year, and not even at my suggestion.

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks on September 14th
Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell on May 10th or 17th depending on the town budget meeting.

Happy Reading!

Add a comment  (2 comments) posted by CarolK

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bas bleu said, on Sep. 4 at 7:37AM
I loved both Still Alice and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society!!

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k4ez said, on Sep. 4 at 8:34AM
Some of my favorites: Still life Tenderness of Wolves City of Light The Lottery They're stories that stick!

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