Welcome to the inaugural blog post of the Deveraux House Book Club! 

Rather than sending out emails, this blog space will serve as our online meeting place.  In it, you will find meeting dates, book lists, recaps of past meetings and administrivia. I’m learning as I go, both with the book club and the blog, so any and all suggestions and feedback are not just welcomed but requested.

After months (possibly years) of speculation, it’s exciting to finally get things off the ground. Before our first meeting on Thursday, I had asked for everyone’s book choices.  I’m posting the ones I have so far, and if there are more we can discuss them at the meeting.

In no particular order, here they are:

• The Birth House – Ami McKay
• New York – Edward Rutherford
• Boomerang – Michael Lewis
• Thinking Fast & Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• The Hunger Games – Susanne Collins
• Secret Weapon: How Economic Terrorism Brought Down the US Stock Market and Why It Can Happen Again – Kevin Freeman
• The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Jonathan Safran Foer
• Still Alice – Lisa Genova
• The Known World – Edward P. Jones
• The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
• The View From Castle Rock – Alice Munro
• At Home – Bill Bryson
• The Paris Wife – Paula McLain
• Wench – Dolen Perkins-Valdez

(updated!)

• Journal of Best Practices – David Finch
• Breaking and Entering – Eileen Pollack
• Small Island – Audrey Levy
• the Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway
• Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, My Life at Rose Red – Jane Reardon
• I Shall Not Hate – Izzeldin Abuelaish

Reading has always been a huge part of my life. Books have introduced me to new ways of looking at the world, they have challenged me, made me laugh and made me think.  They were my escape and my salvation during those years when I was at home with my babies, and even though my kids are bigger now, reading still sustains me. (Although coffee ranks pretty high too.) I’m so looking forward to spending a few hours every month with all you like-minded women!

See you on the 26th (7:30 sharp!).

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines who you will be when you can’t help it. ”  -Oscar Wilde