The PML reading group meets once a month. When we start to make a reading list, we take suggestions and requests from our members. We also look at recommended items by other groups, book lists and just our combined knowledge of what we like to read. We have a few limitations for our group. We don't get the newest books usually because the most popular new books are in high demand and we are not allowed to borrow them for about six months. Because we don't want to purchase 10 to 14 books be they audio or print either on the library budget or our personal budgets, we choose books with a later publication date.
Reviewed January 2014: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
January: Read: David & Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
February: The Power of Half: One Family's Decision to Stop Taking and
Start Giving Back by Hannah Salwen
March: Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way:
Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage by Robin Gerber; or Eleanor
Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady, by Maurine H. Beasley
April: The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle
East by Sandy Tolan
May: 1) Pandora's Keepers: Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb (Morland
Dynasty) by Van DeMark,
Brian or
2) Girls of atomic city by
Denise Kernan --- you choose the book
June: TransAtlantic: A Novel– by Colum McCann – about Ireland
and immigrants to America
July: Drift: The Unmooring of American
Military Power By Rachel Maddow
August: Tapestry of fortunes – by Elizabeth Berg
September: Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost
Children of Nepal by Conor
Grennan
October: The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom
November: Book of Ages by Jill Lepore
December: Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel by David
Guterson – northwest and Japanese
If you have not read these, try them and let me know what you
think.
