new book group
Last Sunday, I attended the first meeting of a new book group here in Portland. I was poking around Craig’s List one day and noticed an announcement from a gal wanting to start a book group on women’s and social issues - right up my alley. So after a month of adding members and circulating e-mails, five of us met (the rest couldn’t make it on Sunday).
We each brought three books with us for consideration for the first month’s selection and wound up voting for Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier, which none of us had read yet. I started Woman and have so far read three chapters. I just love it; her science writing of the female body interwoven with real-life tales, theory, mythology, and history is just fascianting. We’re going to read one book per month to start and meet the fourth Sunday of each month as well as post to a web board for discussion.
There were lots of great suggestions presented for books, and we’re open to the occasional fiction. Titles bandied about on Sunday included The Red Tent by Anita Diamant, Two or Three Things I Know For Sure by Dorothy Allison, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher, and many others.
Any recommendations?
Erica said,
August 29, 2003 @ 10:17 am
Love love LOVE Woman: An Intimate Geography. Informative, understandable, and entertaining. One of my favorite non-fiction books.
leblanc said,
August 29, 2003 @ 11:06 am
that sounds like a great bookclub. i would suggest “the edible woman” and “the handmaid’s tale” by margaret atwood (or any of her books, actually), but i’d wager the majority of you have probably read them already.
Reviving Ophelia is used quite often by social workers, and is a great resource.
Joselle said,
August 29, 2003 @ 12:03 pm
I ADORE Woman by Angier. It’s great in one big gulp and you can also pick it up and start anywhere and read bits and pieces. I reread it often.
Roger Darlington said,
August 29, 2003 @ 3:43 pm
What a great idea. Would a bunch of men do this? A suggestion for your group: “The Left Hand Of Darkness” by Ursula Le Guin.