Author: Lisa Poe

Recommended Reads

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This post will be for everyone to list books that they recommend to the group (not to be confused with the book club book that we will all be reading together sort of). Just throw your recommended book in the comments for others to see. Since I have finished “The Invention of Wings” and the due date for finishing is not until September 30 and the new book club announcement will not be until October 1st; I have started another book on my own. I am never without a book. There have been times that I am reading 4 at one time; but I am never reading nothing. This is why I love my kindle. There is no need to have a stack of books on the night stand, there is no need to be in a panic if you finish a book on Saturday night and the library is closed Sunday and Monday, there is no need to read cheap novels. You always have a plethora of books at your fingertips that can be downloaded in seconds. Also, if you start reading the just purchased kindle book and after 7 or less days you don’t really like it, you can return it to amazon for a full refund.

The book I just started and am totally loving was recommended by Heidi Kaminski. “The Emerald Mile”. It’s about an epic trip down the Colorado River during an outlandish spring run off that closed the river to floaters. This group illegally floated in a dory in an attempt to set a time record for the float in a number of hours that normally takes two weeks. There is lots of history about the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon and the building of dams. Although I just started, I see this as being a fabulous read and recommend it to all Wild Women Book Club members.

First Book Selection

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0114-hot-list-sue-monk-kidd-lgn“The Invention of Wings” by Sue Monk Kidd (author of “Secret Life of Bees”) Get the Kindle Edition

Our first book of the Wild Women Book Club (please feel free to invite men to this club too). I have been worried that my first selection would not be up to par (even after careful research and using my full proof “gut feeling”). Therefore I have started the book and sure enough there was no need to doubt my selection. I’m struggling to get up and go to my day job when this book is sitting there waiting for me to read it. At the same time it’s like a good piece of chocolate that you want to savor and not rush through. To me the best books are the one’s with character development that leaves you feeling like the people in the book are part of your family (Barbara Kingsolver is the master author of that and “The Book Thief” the quintessential novel of not only character development but the intertwined relationships of the characters). This is what you will find in “The Invention of Wings”

Now’s the time to finish up what you’re reading, obtain this novel at the library, book store or kindle. Important note: There are two kindle versions of this novel. One is the original “The Invention of Wings a Novel” and the other includes notes from Oprah. I encourage you to get the original without the notes.

“In simple terms, the book is the fictionalized history of the Grimké sisters, Sarah and Angelina (Nina), who were at the forefront of the abolitionist and women’s rights movements, wound around the intriguing narrative of a young slave, Hetty, who was given to Sarah as an 11th birthday present. Sarah despises slavery, even at that early age, and out of principle attempts to reject the gift.” -NPR Review

Introduction

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I was looking for a way to start an e-book club.  You know; a book club for all my book reading friends no matter where they live.  I’ll pick out a book for us to read together and we can all add to this blog.  I’ll be learning how to use a word press blog at the same time.  Hopefully Hannah will join our book club and guide us in this. We’ll see where this takes us. Good Times.

 “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars