Book Club History

So you're chatting with your friend/sister/what's their bucket and you begin discussing books. You know you've read several good ones but you can't seem to recall the title, author, or even what it's about  (please tell me I'm not alone). Well, I know there's at least one other person this happens to because I received a request to post the previous books we've read since our club began back in 2006.

Thanks to our wonderful, previous Book Club Specialists we have a typed list of all of the books. And to make it accessible to you all I've included the list at the end of this blog's page. Just scroll to the bottom and enjoy your walk through time. And to refresh your memory just click on the name of the book. How many of these have you read? I counted 26 that I've read. We should have a prize for the person who has read the most. Unfortunately it won't be me because I was gone for a couple of years. (But have you read any of the ones our Star Heights Book Club read?)

February - As Time Goes By

Thank you to Kendra for hosting January's book club and for recommending the book, The Hunger Games. Most everyone seemed to enjoy it and those that weren't crazy about the story-line still couldn't seem to put the book down. The main question we couldn't all agree on was who Catniss should end up with...

Our book read for February will be As Time Goes By by Jerry Borrowman. If his name sounds familiar to you it's because we read Three Against Hitler in April, 2009 and A Distant Prayer: Miracles of the 49th Combat Mission in April, 2008. Here is a summary of the book we will be reading this month:

LDS Historical Fiction. 

A World War II Novel-Battle of Britain. 

"The outbreak of war threatened all families living in England, including 

the rich and powerful. Lord Philip Carlyle, a member of Winston 

Churchill’s War Cabinet, was keenly aware of the danger as the father 

of two military age sons, Michael and Dominic. Although both were 

born in America they had spent most of their lives living at Carlyle 

Manor near London. Now their adopted country would call on them at 

its hour of greatest need."   

The book review will be at Patti's on February 15th and, if all goes as planned, we will have the pleasure of having the author, Jerry Borrowman, join us that evening to share his insights and answer our questions. To help us prepare for this occasion I thought I'd share his Bio from Goodreads:

Jerry Borrowman

Goodreads author profile

url

http://www.goodreads.com/jborrowman

born

December 27, 1952 in Blackfoot, Idaho, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.jerryborrowman.com

genre

Biographies & Memoirs, Historical Fiction, History

influences

Love of history and to pay tribute to the men and women who have fought to keep our country free.(less)

member since

May 2009

About this author

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Jerry Borrowman is a best-selling author of more than a dozen published books, most military fiction and co-authored biography. He and Rudi Wobbe, co-authors of Three Against Hitler, are recipients of the prestigious "National Medal of the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge," for their contribution to the cause of freedom.

Jerry is known for his meticulous attention to historical detail, including the technology that is unique to each story. 

January - The Hunger Games

This month we will be reviewing The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Kendra, who will be hosting the club on January 18, was unable to reserve copies due to all the holds at the library, but there are several copies being passed around by generous book owners. Please let me or Kendra know if you'd like to borrow a copy.

I was able to snag a copy at the library last month and I really enjoyed this book. Because of the subject matter there's bound to be those who did not like it, which will make for an interesting discussion. I hope you'll join us!